Historical Events
1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1860 – 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
1949 – Roly Jenkins (Worcs v Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game
1957 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 – Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
1988 – France performs nuclear test
Famous Birthdays
1818 – Alexander H. Rice, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (1876-78), born in Newton, Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1948 – Lewis Black, American stand-up comedian (Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil), born in Washington, D.C.
1977 – Elden Henson, American actor (Daredevil), born in Rockville, Maryland
1979 – Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player, born in Ciudad Evita, Argentina
1983 – Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer, born in Paso de los Libres, Argentina (d. 2007)
1983 – Jonne Aaron, Finnish vocalist of the band Negative, born in Tampere, Finland
Famous Deaths
1950 – Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center), dies at 57
1963 – Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy, dies of acute liver failure at 52
1991 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies at 66
1991 – Hans Koetsier, Dutch sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies at 61
1999 – Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)
2012 – Chris Lighty, music executive and manager (Violator), dies of a gunshot wound at 44