|
Aug16
|
1897 |
The
Tate Gallery in London opened |
|
Aug17
|
1977 |
Elvis died |
|
Aug19
|
1978 |
Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, and Larry Newman,
completed the first balloon crossing of the Atlantic in Double Eagle
II |
1959 |
The Mini was launched |
 |
| 1953 |
England regained the
Ashes after 20 years |
|
Aug20
|
1980 |
Italian
Reinhold Messner completed the first solo ascent of Everest |
|
Aug21
|
1961 |
Goya's
portrait of the Duke of Wellington was stolen from the National
Gallery
|
 |
| 1959 |
Hawaii became the 50th state of the USA |
|
Aug22
|
1485 |
The Battle of Bosworth Field brought the Wars of the Roses to an end |
|
Aug23
|
1297 |
William Wallace, conqueror of the English at the Battle of Stirling
Bridge, was hanged at Smithfield, London |
|
Aug24
|
1949 |
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was established |
 |
|
410 |
The
Visigoths captured Rome |
Aug26
|
1883 |
The volcanic island of Krakatoa in the
Sunda Strait started to erupt - over 36000 people died in the
resulting tidal waves |
|
Aug27
|
2003 |
Mars is closest to Earth in nearly
60,000 years passing passing some 34,646,416 miles away |
|
Aug28
|
1919 |
 Sir
Godfrey Hounsfield, Nobel prize winner and inventor of the CAT
scanner, was born |
Aug29
|
1949 |
Russia detonated its first atomic
device |
|
Aug30
|
1900 |
Bubonic plague broke out in Glasgow |
| 1860 |
The
first tramway in Britain was opened in Birkenhead |
|
Aug31
|
1951 |
Deutsche Grammophon launched the first long-playing record |
| 1888 |
Polly Nichols, the first victim of Jack The Ripper, was
found dead |
