On This Day: August 1st

Former US President Donald Trump is indicted for his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, his third indictment in 2023.

A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 people.

The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.

Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth, in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.

The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145.

A supermarket fire kills 424 people and injures 360 others in Asunción, Paraguay.

Puntland, an autonomous state in northeastern Somalia, was officially established following a constitutional conference in Garowe, Issims and tribal chiefs agreed to create a self-declared government until Somalia recovered.

The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.

A plane crash in the Karabakh Range kills 46 people.

A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.