August 1st, 2023

On this day.

What happened on August 1st, 2023?

• Donald Trump is indicted over his attempts to overturn the 2020 US presidential election.
• Singer Lizzo is accused of sexual harassment and weight-shaming by her former backup dancers.

Facts.

Basic facts and information about this date:

• 1 month and 21 days have passed since August 1st, 2023.
• Week Number: This date occurred during Week 31 of 2023.
• Leap Year: 2023 is not a leap year.
• Unix Timestamp: The Unix Timestamp for this date is 1690844400.

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Around this time.

News stories, pop culture trends, and other events that happened around August 1st, 2023.

• July 2nd, 2023: France riots: The home of a Paris suburb mayor is raided by rioters and set on fire.
• July 3rd, 2023: Israel conducts a major assault on the Jenin refugee camp in Palestine.
• July 4th, 2023: Ukraine claims that Russia has rigged the ZNPP reactor with explosives.
• July 4th, 2023: Meta announces that it is releasing a Twitter rival called Threads.
• July 4th, 2023: Sound of Freedom is released in movie theaters.
• July 5th, 2023: Israel ends its operation in Jenin.
• July 5th, 2023: Soccer: Mason Mount joins Manchester United.
• July 5th, 2023: It is confirmed that cocaine was found in the White House.
• July 6th, 2023: Instagram launches its Twitter rival "Threads".
• July 6th, 2023: Britney Spears claims that she was assaulted by a member of NBA player Victor Wembanyama's security team.
• July 6th, 2023: Andrew Tate loses his appeal against house arrest.
• July 6th, 2023: Elon Musk threatens to sue Meta after it launches its rival Twitter app "Threads".
• July 7th, 2023: Taylor Swift releases the re-recorded album "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)".
• July 8th, 2023: Jonah Hill's ex-girlfriend leaks screenshots of their text messages and accuses him of "emotionally abusive" behavior.
• July 8th, 2023: An unnamed BBC presenter is accused of paying a teenager for explicit photos.
• July 8th, 2023: Soccer: David de Gea announces that he is leaving Manchester United.
• July 10th, 2023: The young person at the center of the BBC presenter controversy states that the "allegations in The Sun newspaper are rubbish".
• July 10th, 2023: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan agrees to support Sweden's NATO bid.
• July 10th, 2023: Russian ex-submarine commander Stanislav Rzhitsky is shot dead while jogging in a park in Krasnodar, Russia.
• July 11th, 2023: Charles Manson cult follower Leslie Van Houten is released on parole after spending 53 years in prison.
• July 11th, 2023: Bank of America is fined $150 million for consumer abuses.
• July 12th, 2023: Huw Edwards is named as the BBC presenter at the center of the explicit images scandal.
• July 13th, 2023: Rex Heuermann is arrested in connection with the Long Island serial killer case.
• July 13th, 2023: Carlee Russell goes missing in Alabama after reporting that she had seen a child wandering along I-495.
• July 13th, 2023: Billie Eilish releases the song "What Was I Made For?".
• July 14th, 2023: The film "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One" is released in movie theaters.
• July 14th, 2023: It is announced that Rex Heuermann has been arrested and charged with three murders in the Long Island serial killer case.
• July 14th, 2023: The music video for Jason Aldean's song "Try That in a Small Town" causes controversy due to allegations that it endorses racism.
• July 15th, 2023: Elon Musk says that Twitter's ad revenue is down 50% and cash flow is negative.
• July 15th, 2023: Missing woman Carlee Russell returns to her home in Alabama.
• July 15th, 2023: MLS team Inter Miami announce the signing of Lionel Messi.
• July 15th, 2023: Soccer: West Ham midfielder Declan Rice signs for Arsenal.
• July 17th, 2023: Ukraine launches a drone attack against a bridge linking Crimea to the Russian mainland.
• July 17th, 2023: Pop singer Ariana Grande separates from her husband after two years of marriage.
• July 18th, 2023: An American soldier named Travis King crosses into North Korea.
• July 19th, 2023: The police in Alabama say that they are unable to verify Carlee Russell's abduction story.
• July 19th, 2023: The documentary "The Deepest Breath" is released on Netflix.
• July 20th, 2023: The United States confirms that its cluster bombs are being used in Ukraine.
• July 20th, 2023: The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup kicks off in Australia and New Zealand.
• July 21st, 2023: The film "Barbie", starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, is released in movie theaters.
• July 21st, 2023: The movie "Oppenheimer" is released.
• July 21st, 2023: Singer Tony Bennett dies at the age of 96.
• July 21st, 2023: It is reported that Ariana Grande is dating her married "Wicked" co-star, Ethan Slater.
• July 23rd, 2023: Elon Musk says that he will be rebranding Twitter as "X".
• July 24th, 2023: Elon Musk replaces Twitter's blue bird logo with an "X".
• July 24th, 2023: Carlee Russell admits to lying about her abduction story.
• July 26th, 2023: It is announced that Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor has died at the age of 56.
• July 26th, 2023: Senior Republican Mitch McConnell freezes mid-sentence while speaking at a conference.
• July 26th, 2023: Eagles co-founder Randy Meisner dies at the age of 77.
• July 26th, 2023: Whistleblower David Grusch claims that the United States is concealing a "multi-decade" program that captures UFOs.
• July 26th, 2023: Actor Kevin Spacey is found not guilty of sexual offences against four men.
• July 26th, 2023: A coup d'état occurs in Niger.
• July 27th, 2023: Ukraine recaptures the village of Staromaiorske.
• July 27th, 2023: The European Central Bank increases interest rates for the ninth time in a year.
• July 27th, 2023: The US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for the 11th time since March 2022.
• July 27th, 2023: Soccer: David Silva announces his retirement.
• July 28th, 2023: Carlee Russell is charged in connection with her kidnapping hoax.
• July 28th, 2023: The 2023 Emmy Awards are postponed due to the Hollywood actors and writers strike.
• July 28th, 2023: Calvin Harris and Sam Smith release the song "Desire".
• July 28th, 2023: Travis Scott releases his album "Utopia".
• July 29th, 2023: A federal judge dismisses Donald Trump's $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN.
• July 31st, 2023: It is announced that actor Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) has died from cancer at the age of 70.
• July 31st, 2023: Euphoria actor Angus Cloud is found dead at the age of 25.
• This date: August 1st, 2023
• August 2nd, 2023: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife announce that they are separating after 18 years of marriage.
• August 3rd, 2023: Donald Trump pleads not guilty to election conspiracy charges.
• August 3rd, 2023: Lizzo rejects allegations that she discriminated against former employees on the basis of their weight.
• August 4th, 2023: West African military chiefs say they have plans for a possible intervention in Niger.
• August 4th, 2023: It is reported that the world's oceans have set a new surface temperature record.
• August 4th, 2023: A Romanian court lifts Andrew Tate's house arrest.
• August 4th, 2023: Long Island serial killer victim "Fire Island Jane Doe" is identified as Karen Vergata after 27 years.
• August 4th, 2023: Doja Cat releases the song "Paint the Town Red".
• August 5th, 2023: A large riverboat brawl in Montgomery, Alabama, goes viral on the Internet.
• August 5th, 2023: Boxing: Jake Paul defeats Nate Diaz.
• August 6th, 2023: 30 people are killed after a passenger train called the Hazara Express derails in Pakistan.
• August 8th, 2023: Oliver Anthony releases the song "Rich Men North of Richmond".
• August 9th, 2023: Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio is assassinated at a political rally.
• August 9th, 2023: At least 36 people are killed after wildfires sweep through Lahaina in Hawaii.
• August 9th, 2023: A man suspected of threatening US President Joe Biden is shot dead by the FBI in Utah.
• August 11th, 2023: The death toll from the wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, reaches 80.
• August 12th, 2023: Soccer: Harry Kane joins Bayern Munich.
• August 12th, 2023: Boxing: Anthony Joshua knocks out Robert Helenius.
• August 14th, 2023: Georgia charges Donald Trump with trying to overturn the 2020 US presidential election.
• August 14th, 2023: Soccer: Brighton midfielder Moisés Caicedo joins Chelsea.
• August 15th, 2023: Soccer: Neymar joins Saudi Pro League side Al Hilal.
• August 16th, 2023: Britney Spears and her husband, Sam Asghari, separate after 14 months of marriage.
• August 17th, 2023: Mortgage rates in the United States reach their highest level in 21 years.
• August 18th, 2023: Former nurse Lucy Letby is found guilty of murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital in England.
• August 20th, 2023: Russia's Luna-25 space craft crashes into the moon.
• August 20th, 2023: Storm Hilary hits California and Mexico.
• August 20th, 2023: Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales is widely criticized for kissing Jennifer Hermoso on the World Cup trophy podium.
• August 20th, 2023: Spain win the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup after defeating England 1-0 in the final.
• August 21st, 2023: Soccer: Manchester United confirm that Mason Greenwood is leaving the club due to the previous rape allegations that he was facing.
• August 21st, 2023: Hawaii wildfires: It is confirmed that 114 people are dead and 850 people are still missing.
• August 23rd, 2023: India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on the south pole of the Moon.
• August 23rd, 2023: Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is killed in a plane crash.
• August 23rd, 2023: Donald Trump skips the Republican nomination debate.
• August 23rd, 2023: Rudy Giuliani surrenders to authorities in Georgia over his 2020 election indictment charges.
• August 23rd, 2023: Wrestling legend Terry Funk passes away at the age of 79.
• August 24th, 2023: Japan begins to release wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean.
• August 24th, 2023: WWE wrestler Bray Wyatt dies of a heart attack at the age of 36.
• August 24th, 2023: Donald Trump surrenders to authorities in Georgia over his 2020 election indictment charges.
• August 24th, 2023: American actress Arleen Sorkin passes away at the age of 67.
• August 25th, 2023: Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales refuses to resign for kissing Jennifer Hermoso.
• August 26th, 2023: "The Price Is Right" host Bob Barker dies at the age of 99.
• August 26th, 2023: Boxing: Oleksandr Usyk defeats Daniel Dubois with a 9th round technical knockout.
• August 27th, 2023: Samuel Wurzelbacher (Joe the Plumber) dies from pancreatic cancer at the age of 49.
• August 30th, 2023: Hurricane Idalia hits Florida.
• August 30th, 2023: Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba is deposed by a military coup.
• August 30th, 2023: Utah family YouTuber Ruby Franke is arrested on child abuse charges.
• August 31st, 2023: Donald Trump pleads not guilty to charges that he led a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.
• August 31st, 2023: At least 74 people are killed after a fire engulfs an abandoned building in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• August 31st, 2023: Convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante escapes from Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania.

Horoscope, birthstone, and birth flower information.

Zodiac and birthstone information.

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• Zodiac Sign (Astrology): Anyone born on August 1st, 2023, will have the star sign Leo.
• Zodiac Element: Fire.
• Chinese Zodiac Animal: In the Chinese Zodiac, 2023 is the year of the Rabbit (Yin Fire).
• The Life Path Number for this date is 7.
• Native American Zodiac: August 1st, 2023 falls under the Salmon.
• Birthstone: A person during the month of August will have the birthstone Peridot.
• Birth flower (August): The Gladiolus and the Poppy.

Conception dates.

Conception estimates for this date.

Warning! These conception dates are based on broad estimates.

• A baby that was born on August 1st, 2023 was most likely conceived around November 8th, 2022.
• The due date for a baby that was conceived on August 1st, 2023 is close to April 23rd, 2024.

Time difference & statistics.

Here are some fun statistics about August 1st, 2023.

• 52 days have passed since this date.
• 7 weeks have passed.
• 4,492,800 seconds have passed since August 1st, 2023.
• If you were born on this day, your heart has beat approximately 5,241,600 times.
• Since then, the Earth has traveled approximately 2,318,284,800 miles through space.
• If you were born on this day, your eyes have blinked approximately 748,800 times.
• You have taken approximately 386,381 steps. That's roughly 172 miles!
• Since this date, 53,914 meteors have entered the Earth's atmosphere!
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