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Events on August 1

• 1291 According to a Swiss national myth, envoys from the three original cantons (forest cantons) of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden swear the Rütli Oath on this day, thereby founding the Swiss Confederacy. The signing of the Federal Charter of 1291 is also assumed to have taken place on this day.
• 1844 The Zoological Garden opens in Berlin as the ninth zoo in Europe. It is the oldest zoo in the territory of present-day Germany.
• 1914 World War I: The German Empire declares war on Russia. On the same evening, Russian troops cross the East Prussian border.
• 1936 Adolf Hitler opens the XI Olympic Games in Berlin. The Olympic flame is lit by German track and field athlete Fritz Schilgen, while weightlifter Rudolf Ismayr recites the Olympic Oath.
• 1944 Anne Frank makes the final entry in her diary.
• 1962 Otfried Preußler's children's book The Robber Hotzenplotz is published.
• 1972 The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, with a diameter of 100 m, is put into operation at Effelsberg and remains the largest until 2000.
• 1975 At the OSCE summit in Helsinki, the CSCE is founded and the Helsinki Final Act is signed.
• 1981 MTV begins broadcasting in New York City.
• 1984 From now on, in the Federal Republic of Germany, failure to wear a seat belt in a car is punished with a fine of forty Deutsche marks. As a result, the seat belt usage rate among vehicle occupants rises from around 60 to about 90 percent.
• 1998 The spelling reform comes into force in German-speaking countries.
• 2001 With the introduction of registered partnerships, same-sex couples in Germany are legally recognized for the first time.

Born on August 1

• 1871 Eduard von Winterstein, German film actor
• 1910 Gerda Taro, German photographer
• 1920 Samuel Lee, American athlete and Olympic diving champion
• 1921 Jack Kramer, American tennis player
• 1930 Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist
• 1952 Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician and writer
• 1960 Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff, German dressage rider
• 1971 İdil Üner, Turkish-German actress
• 1981 Melanie Raabe, German writer
• 1992 HandOfBlood, German web video producer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „1. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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