1 August
From Tolkien Gateway
Events that occurred on 1 August
On Earth
- 1917 – "Tea Cake" Barnsley is killed near Ypres while consolidating a captured prisoner.
- 1937 - Voice actor Ian Hogg is born.
- 1950 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 128.
- 1959 - J.R.R. Tolkien serves the first Mass of Robert Murray.
- 1962 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 240.
- 1969 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Mr Burrows.
- 1988 - Mythcon XIX in Berkeley, California.
- 1993 - Mythcon XXIV at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
- 1999 - Mythcon XXX in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- 2004 - Mythcon XXXV at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.