Reuters historical calendar - August 1

London, July 31 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 1 since 1900.

1914 - Germany declared war on Russia and shots were fired between French and German border patrols. Italy declared her neutrality.

1936 - Adolf Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin.

1939 - Glenn Miller, American band leader, recorded ''In the Mood'' which later became his theme tune.

1944 - The 63-day Warsaw uprising began when Poles rose up against Nazi occupation.

1950 - King Leopold III of Belgium abdicated in favour of his son Prince Baudouin following his controversial decision as commander to surrender Belgian forces to the invading Germans in World War Two.

1962 - Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah escaped an assassination attempt when a hand grenade was thrown into a welcoming crowd.

1973 - Walter Ulbricht, leader of the German Communist Party, died. He helped establish a socialist state in the Soviet-occupied half of the country after World War Two and became East German leader in 1960.

1975 - The Final Act of the Helsinki Agreement on human rights was signed by the West and the Soviet Union.

1990 - A five-day coup attempt in Trinidad and Tobago ended with the surrender of the Black Muslim rebels and the release of their captives.

1997 - U.S. President Clinton ended a 20-year ban on the sale of high-tech U.S. warplanes and advanced weapons to Latin America.

2000 - Guerrillas in Kashmir carried out seven massacres, killing at least 90 people and injuring dozens, most of them Hindu pilgrims and labourers.

2003 - A Russian military hospital in North Ossetia near Chechnya was destroyed after a suicide bomber aboard a truck killed 50 people.

2004 - In Paraguay, a fire swept through the crowded Ycua Bolanos supermarket in the capital Asuncion's outskirts and killed up to 400 people.

2005 - Saudi Arabia's King Fahd died and Crown Prince Abdullah was pronounced monarch of the world's largest oil exporter.

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