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Notable anniversaries in history for today: August 1
- 250th: 1774 - The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Yuri V Romanenko in the USSR; cosmonaut (Soyuz 26, Soyuz 38, Soyuz TM-2).
- 60th: 1964 - The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" single goes #1 and stays #1 for two weeks.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Nick Christian Sayer; rocker (Transvision Vamp - "Velveteen").
- 60th: 1964 - Death of Johnny Burnette at age 30 in a boating accident at Clear Lake, California, USA; singer ("You're 16", "Dreamin'").
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Adam Duritz; singer (Counting Crows).
- 50th: 1974 - Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to the New York Nets.
- 40th: 1984 - Australian banks are deregulated.
- 30th: 1994 - Fire destroys Norwich Central Library in the United Kingdom, including most of its historical records.
- 30th: 1994 - The University of London founds the School of Advanced Study, a group of postgraduate research institutes.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Philip Abelson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913).
- 20th: 2004 - A supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, kills about 400 and leaves over 100 missing.
- 20th: 2004 - A bomb attack occurs in front of Prague's Casino Royal.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Chuck Boyajian at age 86; Disneyland worker 1955-81 as Manager of Custodial Operations, named Disney Legend in 2005.
- 10th: 2014 - Buena Vista releases the film Guardians of the Galaxy to theaters.
- 5th: 2019 - Danish polar research institution Polar Portal reports a large spike in Greenland ice loss, with 11 billion tons melted in one day and 197 gigatonnes during the month of July.
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