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4 events
3 births
2 deaths
1 holiday
August 1st
Events
1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.
1498 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
1619 - First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
1914 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.
Births
1819 - Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
1837 - Mother Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
1933 - Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian
Deaths
371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283)
1546 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
Holiday
Jamaica - Emancipation Day
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