Today in History: August 1, America gets its MTV

Currently is Friday Aug the th day of There are days left in the year This day in history On August MTV began its American broadcast the first music video aired on the new cable TV organization was Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles Also on this date In Colorado was admitted as the th state in the Union less than a month after the US Centennial earning it the nickname the Centennial State Related Articles Fire clouds over Arizona and Utah wildfires are creating their own erratic context ICE says it has made tentative job offers to more than as hiring ramps up Pentagon pulls back more National Guard troops and leaves behind in Los Angeles Sean Diddy Combs asks judge to throw out guilty verdicts or grant him a new trial Mourners honor the NYPD officer killed in the attack at the NFL headquarters building In a week-long boys camping event began on Brownsea Island in southern England organized by Robert Baden-Powell the event is now marked as the beginning of the Scout Movement In Adolf Hitler presided over the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Berlin In an uprising broke out in Warsaw Poland against Nazi occupation the revolt lasted two months before collapsing In the United States and Canada communicated they had agreed to create the North American Air Defense Command NORAD In Charles Joseph Whitman went on an armed rampage at the University of Texas in Austin that killed people the greater part of whom were shot by Whitman while he was perched in the clock tower of the main campus building In The Concert for Bangladesh an all-star benefit organized by George Harrison of The Beatles and sitar athlete Ravi Shankar was held at Madison Square Garden in New York In Pro Bowl tackle Korey Stringer died of heat stroke a day after collapsing at the Minnesota Vikings training camp on the hottest day of the year In the Ycu Bola os supermarket fire in Asuncion Paraguay killed more than people In the eight-lane Interstate W bridge a major Minneapolis artery collapsed into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour killing people In a therapeutic examiner ruled that a New York City police officer s chokehold caused the death of Eric Garner whose videotaped arrest and final pleas of I can t breathe had sparked outrage In former President Donald Trump was indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and obstruction charges related to his alleged attempts to overturn the results of the presidential voting process In the current era s Birthdays Actor Giancarlo Giannini is Basketball Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams is Blues musician Robert Cray is Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum is Rock singer Joe Elliott Def Leppard is Rapper Chuck D Populace Enemy is Actor John Carroll Lynch is Rock singer Adam Duritz Counting Crows is Film director Sam Mendes is Actor Tempestt Bledsoe is Football Hall of Famer Edgerrin James is Actor Jason Momoa is