Public Holidays on August 1

• 🌍 Nationalfeiertag (Switzerland)
• 🌍 Swiss National Day (Switzerland)

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On This Day in History — August 1

• 2017 — A suicide attack on a mosque in Heart, Afghanistan kills 20 people.
• 2008 — The Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.
• 2008 — Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
• 2007 — The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
• 2004 — A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
• 1993 — The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.

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Notable Births on August 1

• 1996 — Katie Boulter, English tennis player
• 1994 — Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
• 1994 — Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer
• 1993 — Álex Abrines, Spanish basketball player
• 1993 — Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
• 1992 — Austin Rivers, American basketball player

Notable Deaths on August 1

• 2016 — Queen Anne of Romania (b. 1923)
• 2015 — Stephan Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (b. 1968)
• 2015 — Cilla Black, English singer and actress (b. 1943)
• 2015 — Bernard d'Espagnat, French physicist, philosopher, and author (b. 1921)
• 2015 — Bob Frankford, English-Canadian physician and politician (b. 1939)
• 2015 — Hong Yuanshuo, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1948)

On This Day in History — August 2

• 2014 — At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
• 2005 — Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
• 1999 — The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
• 1990 — Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
• 1989 — Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
• 1989 — A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

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Notable Births on August 2

• 1995 — Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player
• 1994 — Laura Pigossi, Brazilian tennis player
• 1994 — Laremy Tunsil, American football player
• 1992 — Hallie Eisenberg, American actress
• 1992 — Charli XCX, English singer and songwriter
• 1990 — Ima Bohush, Belarusian tennis player

Notable Deaths on August 2

• 2016 — Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (b. 1930)
• 2016 — David Huddleston, American actor (b. 1930)
• 2016 — Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (b. 1927)
• 2016 — Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1946)
• 2015 — Forrest Bird, American pilot and engineer (b. 1921)
• 2015 — Giovanni Conso, Italian jurist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1922)