1 August

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 1st August:

1. On this date in 30 BC Mark Antony and his lover Cleopatra committed suicide after Antony was defeated by Octavian at the naval Battle of Actium, and in a brief land battle at Alexandria.
2. In 1838, slavery was declared unlawful throughout the British Empire.
3. MTV Europe began broadcasting on this date in 1987. The first video was Money For Nothing by Dire Straits.
4. In 1919, Doubleday published nine year old Daisy Ashford's The Young Visiters; or, Mr Salteena's Plan. Sir James M. Barrie wrote a preface – leading the public to believe Barrie was the real author.
5. In 1793, France became the first country to use the metric system of weights and measures, a by-product of the French Revolution. The kilogram was introduced in France as the first metric weight.
6. In a violent storm in London on this date in 1846, 7,000 window panes in the Houses of Parliament, 300 in Old Scotland Yard, 10,000 in Leicester Square and many more in Regent Street, Somerset House and Buckingham Palace, were shattered by hailstones.
7. In 1785, Caroline Herschel became the first woman to discover a comet.
8. In 1973, Jerry Garcia celebrated his 31st birthday by playing a concert at Roosevelt Stadium with the Grateful Dead. He was surprised with a cake wheeled on stage, which contained a naked woman. He was, in his words, "embarrassed."
9. There was a mutiny on board the convict transport ship Lady Shaw, on this date in 1797. 60 male convicts and one woman mutinied on the way to from Britain to Australia.
10. In 1996, Darlington Sub-aqua team found 6 fossilised bones in Loch Morar. Could be Morag, cousin of the Loch Ness Monster, it was concluded.

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