THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 1
August 1 in history
What happened on August 1: 4 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1927, 1941, 1944 and 1975, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Nanchang Uprising
1 Aug 1927 — Communist-led regiments seize Nanchang for three days — the party’s first army of its own. Driven out and broken, the survivors under Zhu De trickle to the hills. The People’s Liberation Army still dates its founding to this morning.
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— US oil embargo on Japan
26 Jul–1 Aug 1941 — Washington answers the seizure of southern Indochina by freezing Japan’s assets and cutting off its oil. The fleet burns its reserves from this day; the clock to war now runs in months.
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Warsaw rises. The Home Army seizes half the city and waits for help that stands still across the river — for sixty-three days.
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— Helsinki Accords
1 Aug 1975 — Thirty-five states ratify Europe’s postwar borders — Moscow’s prize — in exchange for “Basket III” human-rights pledges Moscow thinks are decoration. Dissidents will hold it to the letter.
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