This Day In History: August 1

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The first Six Flags amusement park opens, the first census is taken, Adolph Hitler opens the Berlin Olympics, MTV debuts music videos and the term VJ is coined in This Day in History video. The date is August 1st. Angus Wade Jr. founded the first Six Flags Amusement Park in Texas. The first census counted four million people.