Famous People Who Died on August 1st in History

Dying is just like taxes in the respect that it is going to happen to you and me. Over history, we realize it doesn't matter who you are, you are going to face death. Famous people have no secret weapon against death. They are just like you and I. They will die. We will die. Death is a part of life. However, many of us look forward to eternal life in Heaven. After we all pass from this world, I hope to meet each one of you in a better place called Heaven.


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What Happened Today in History?

1834 Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.

1876 Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state

1907 The start of first Scout camp on Brown sea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement

1981 MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles

2007The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour

Deaths

83 BC-30 BC Mark Antony, Roman politician and general and important friend of Julius Caesar

1665-1714 Queen Anne of Great Britain

1853-1903 Calamity Jane was a frontierswoman, and professional scout best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok, but also for having gained fame fighting Native American Indians

1879-1917 Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched), widely known that Pinkerton Agents were involved, but the police did nothing about it

1854-1918 John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger

1921-1943 Lydia Litvyak, Soviet female flying ace, there were only two female flying aces and she was one of them

1941-1966 Charles Whitman, American mass murderer who was shot by police after going on a rampage and killing 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin-Charles Whitman was a former marine

1929-1977 Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident

1923-1981 Paddy Chayefsky, American writer, He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay

1975-2001 Korey Stringer was an American football player who died from complications brought on by heat stroke, during training camp in Mankato, Minnesota while in training camp with the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League

1933-2009 Corazon Aquino, Former President of the Philippines who is best remembered for leading the 1986 People Power Revolution, which toppled Ferdinand Marcos and restored democracy in the Philippines

This is series of famous people who died was inspired by Faye Farley who writes about famous people who were born on the same dates. Each day I will make a list of the famous people who died on the particular day with a link to her story about who was born on a particular day. Today's famous deaths will be linked to her September 27 story because she has not made it to October yet. Click hereto check out Faye's writing

Sources

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