Notable August dates

Notable dates

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.