
Notable August dates
- dates1st 1740, “Rule Britannia” is sung for the first time in public.
- 3rd 1926, Electric traffic lights first appear in Britain.
- 4th 1914, Britain declares war on Germany, becoming First World War.
- 5th End of Payroll month 4.
- 6th 1945, first atomic bomb used over Hiroshima.
- 8th 1963, Great Train robbery occurs. £2.6 million stolen.
- 13th 1899, Alfred Hitchcock, film director, born.
- 13th 1961, Berlin Wall built.
- 14th 1945, Japan surrenders, World War 2 ends.
- 15th 1969, the Woodstock music festival begins.
- 22nd payments for Payroll month 4 due by today latest.
- 22nd 1485, Richard III is last king of England to be killed in battle.
- 23rd 1940, first night of the blitz.
- 24th AD 79, Vesuvius erupts and destroys Pompeii.
- 25th 1919, the world’s first international air service begins, London to Paris.
- 26th 1883, the volcano Krakatoa causing the biggest eruption in recorded history.
- 29th 1897, Chop Suey is invented in New York.
- 31st 1900, Coca Cola sold for the first time in Britain.