THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
01/08.
The birthday of all horses.
01/08/30BC Mark Antony. Roman Politician &
General dies.
01/08/30BC Octavian(Later known as Augustus)
enters Alexandria, Egypt bringing it
under control of the Roman
Empire.
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AUGUST
01/08/1498. Christopher Colombus becomes
the 1st. European to visit
Venezuela.
01/08/1619. The 1st African slaves arrive in
Jamestown Virginia.
01/08/1774. British chemist Joseph Priestley
discovers Oxygen.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
01/08/1834. Slavery is abolished in the British
Empire.
01/08/1902. The U.S.A. buys the Panama Canal
from France.
01/08/1914. Germany declares War on Russia in
W.W.1.
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AUGUST
01/08/1924. Sir Frank Worrell is born. West
Indian Cricket Captain whom the
trophy is named after for cricket
tests between Australia & the
West Indies.
01/08/1941. The 1st. Jeep is produced.
01/08/2009. Corazon Aquino. The 11th.
President of the Philippines dies.
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AUGUST
02/08/1820. John Tyndall. British physicist is
born.
02/08/1934. Paul von Hindenberg. German Field
Marshall & President of Germany
dies.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
02/08/1939. Albert Einstein writes
to U.S. President Franklin D
Roosevelt urging him to begin the
development of an Atomic Bomb.
02/08/1943. The Japanese sink the U.S. boat
PT 109 during W.W.2. The future
U.S. President John F Kennedy
saves all but 2 of his crew.
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AUGUST
02/08/1973. Champion Australian swimmer
Suzie O’Neill is born.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
03/08/1856. Alfred Deakin. Australia’s 2nd.
Prime Minister is born.
03/08/1934. Adolf Hitler becomes the Supreme
leader of Germany. “The Fuhrer”
03/08/2008. Aleksander Sololzhenitsyn. A
famous Russian author dies.
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AUGUST
04/08/1792. Percy Shelley. English poet is born.
04/08/1901. Louis Armstrong. Famous American
Jazz Musician is born.
04/08/1914. UK declares war on Germany in
W.W.1.
04/08/1923. Reg Grundy. Australian Television
& Media owner is born.
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AUGUST
04/08/1942. David Lange. N.Z. Prime Minister
1984 – 1989 is born.
04/08/1960. Tim Winton. Australian novelist &
short story writer is born.
04/08/1961. U.S. President Barack Obama is
born.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
05/08/1305. Scottish hero Sir William Wallace
is executed by the English.
05/08/1815. Edward Eyre. Australian explorer
is born.
05/08/1908. Harold Holt. Australian Prime
Minister between 1966 – 1967
is born.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
05/08/1930. Neil Armstrong. US Astronaut &
1st. man to walk on the moon is
born.
05/08/1962. Marilyn Monroe. American actress
dies.
05/08/1984. Sir Richard Burton. Welsh Actor
dies.
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AUGUST
05/08/2008. Reg Lindsay. Australian country &
western singer dies.
06/08/1809. Alfred Lord Tennyson. English poet
is born.
06/08/1825. Bolivia gains her Independence.
06/08/1881. Alexander Fleming. Scottish
scientist who discovered Penicillin
is born.
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AUGUST
06/08/1885. Sir Isaac Isaacs. 1st. native born
Governor General of Australia is
born.
06/08/1926. Gertrude Ederle became the 1st
woman to swim the English
Channel.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
06/08/1945. Atomic Bomb is dropped on
Hiroshima, Japan during W.W.2.
07/08/1948. Greg Chappell. Famous Australian
cricketer is born.
08/08/1588. The English Fleet attacked the
Spanish Armada.
08/08/1909. Mother Mary Mackillop. Australia’s
1st Saint dies.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
08/08/1967. The Association of South East Asian
Nations was formed. (ASEAN.)
08/08/1974. U.S. President Richard Nixon
announces his resignation:
“effective at noon tomorrow”
as a result of the Watergate
scandal.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
AUGUST 9TH. International Day of the World’s
Indigenous People .
09/08/1493. The opening of the Sistine Chapel
in Rome.
09/08/1631. John Dryden, English poet &
dramatist was born.
09/08/1938. Rod Laver. Champion Australian
Tennis player & the only person
ever to win 2 Grand Slams is born.
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AUGUST
09/08/1945. A second atomic Bomb was
dropped on Nagasaki, Japan during
W.W.2.
09/08/1961. John Key. New Zealand’s Prime
Minister is born.
09/08/1985. Clive Churchill. South Sydney &
Australian Rugby League great
dies.
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AUGUST
11/08/1897. Enid Blyton. English author is
born.
11/08/1972. The last U.S. ground troops leave
South Vietnam at the end of the
Vietnam War.
11/08/2014. Robin Williams. Famous American
actor & comedian dies.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
12/08/1886. Sir Keith Murdoch. Australian
journalist & founder of the
Murdoch media empire is born.
12/08/1964. Ian Fleming. English author &
creator of James Bond is born.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
13/08/1926. Fidel Castro. Cuban Revolutionary
leader is born.
13/08/1946. H.G. Wells. English Science fiction
writer is born.
13/08/1961. East Germans began building the
Berlin Wall.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
13/08/2008. Michael Phelps becomes the 1st.
person ever to win 8 Gold medals
at a single Olympics in Beijing,
China.
14/08/1902. Felix Wankel. German inventor of
the Rotary Engine is born.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
14/08/1941. Father Maximillian Kolbe dies in
the German Concentration Camp
at Auschwitz. He gives up his life to
save another prisoner who had a
family. He is canonised in 1982 as
one of the 20th. Century Martyrs.
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AUGUST
14/08/1945. Japan surrenders to end W.W.2.
14/08/1947. Pakistan becomes Independent.
14/08/1973. Record breaking Australian swim
star Kieran Perkins is born.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
August 15th. is celebrated by Catholics as the
Feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven.
15/08/1057. King Macbeth of Scotland dies.
15/08/1769. Napoleon Bonaparte is born.
15/08/1771. Sir Walter Scott. Scottish author is
born.
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AUGUST
15/08/1914. The Panama Canal is opened to
traffic.
15/08/1945. V.J.Day. Japan surrenders to mark
the end of W.W.2.
15/08/1947. India becomes Independent.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY.
AUGUST
15/08/1948. South Korea becomes
Independent.
15/08/1950. Princess Anne. The Princess Royal
is born.
15/08/1960. The Congo becomes Independent.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
16/08/1948. . Babe Ruth. American Baseball
legend dies.
16/08/1958. Madonna. American singer & actor
is born.
16/08/1977. “The King of Rock & Roll”
Elvis Presley dies.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
17/08/1943. The Allies conquer Sicily in W.W.2.
17/08/1945. Indonesia becomes Independent.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
AUGUST 18th. Vietnam Veterans day
19/08/1871. Orville Wright. Pioneer aviator is
born.
20/08/1858. Charles Darwin publishes his
theory of evolution.
20/08/1968. Soviet Troops invade
Czechoslovakia.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
21/08/1770. Captain James Cook formally claims
Eastern Australia for Great Britain
calling it New South Wales.
21/08/1959. Hawaii is proclaimed as the 50th.
State of the U.S.A.
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AUGUST
22/08/1642. The start of the English Civil War.
22/08/1647. Denis Papin. French Scientist who
invented the Pressure Cooker is
born.
22/08/1862. Claude Debussy. French composer
is born.
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AUGUST
23/08/1939. Germany & the Soviet Union sign
a non aggression pact
“The pact of steel” prior to the
beginning of W.W.2.
23/08/1942. The battle of Stalingrad begins
in W.W.2.
24/08/1936. The Australian Antarctic territory
is created.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
24/08/2014. Sir Richard Attenborough dies.
He was a famous English actor,
director and producer.
He was also Life President of
Chelsea Football Club.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
25/08/1867. Michael Faraday. English scientist
dies.
25/08/1930. Sean Connery. Scottish actor who
starred as James Bond is born.
25/08/1968. Stan McCabe. Famous Australian
cricketer dies.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
25/08/2009. Senator Edward M. Kennedy. U.S.
Senator for Massachusetts
1962 – 2009 dies.
25/08/2012. Neil Armstrong. The 1st. man to
walk on the moon on July 20th.
1969 dies.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
26/08/1498. Michelangelo is asked to create
the Pieta.
26/08/1908. Sir Donald Bradman is born.
26/08/1910. Mother Teresa. Catholic nun &
winner of the Nobel peace prize is
born.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
27/08/1789. The French National Assembly
(Parliament) adopts the
Declaration of the Rights of Man.
27/08/1910. Sir Donald Bradman. Famous
Australian Cricketer is born.
27/08/1910. Lyndon B. Johnson. 36th. President
of the U.S.A. is born.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
27/08/2013. Bill Peach. Famous current Affairs
Journalist for the A.B.C. dies.
28/08/1828. Leo Tolstoy. Russian author is born.
28/08/1833. UK ended slavery in its colonies
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
28/08/1996. Princess Diana & Prince Charles
divorce.
29/08/1831. Michael Faraday discovers
Electromagnetic Radiation.
29/08/1844. Edmund Ignatius Rice. Founder of
the Christian Brothers dies.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
29/08/1862. Andrew Fisher. 3 times Australian
Prime Minister is born.
30/08/1835. Foundation of the City of
Melbourne.
30/08/1797. Mary Wollstonecraft. English
author of Frankenstein is born.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
31/08/1814. Captain Arthur Phillip who led
the 1st. Fleet to Australia in 1788
dies.
31/08/1897. Thomas Edison patents the 1st.
movie projector.
31/08/1945. Sir Robert Menzies forms the
Liberal Party of Australia.
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
AUGUST
31/08/1957. Malaysia gains its independence
from Great Britain.
31/08/1997. Dianna The Princess of Wales is
killed in a car accident in Paris.
31/08/2013. David Frost. Famous English T.V.
Journalist & Interviewer dies.
QUOTE OF THE MONTH:
“ Never in the history of human conflict, has so
much been owed by so many, to so few.
It was perhaps, their finest hour.”
Sir Winston Churchill. Prime Minister of
England, in a speech to the House of
Commons , during the Battle of Britain,
20th. August 1940.