Template:Selected anniversaries/August 1
1774: British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
1818: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre uses astronomical equations derived from analytical formulas which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1819: Astronomer and academic Maria Mitchell born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.
1869: Celebrity time-traveler Radium Jane falls asleep, relapses into her Janet Beta state.
1977: Francis Gary Powers dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.
1977: Political campaign manager and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says that Francis Gary Powers "was practically a leftist."
2003: Steganographic analysis of the proposed evil bit protocol suggests that the proposal was defeated due to a secret campaign of bribery and intimidation orchestrated by Baron Zersetzung.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Creature unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty terabytes" of encrypted data relating, "apparently a record of top-secret Clandestiphrine experiments directed against the U-2 spyplane incident."