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THIS MONTH IN HISTORYAUGUST

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.


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.


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.


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.


02/08/1820. John Tyndall. British physicist is born.02/08/1934. Paul von Hindenberg. German Field Marshall & President of Germany dies.


02/08/1939. Albert Einstein & Leo Sziland write 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.


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.03/08/2014. Australian Catholic Cardinal Edward “Bede” Clancy dies.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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..


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. 12/08/2014. Lauren Bacall. Famous American actress & singer dies.


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.


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.14/08/1947. Pakistan becomes Independent.


August 15th. is celebrated by Catholics as theFeast 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.


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.


16/08/1958. Madonna. American singer & actor is born.16/08/1977. “The King of Rock & Roll” Elvis Presley dies.17/08/1943. The Allies conquer Sicily in W.W.2.17/08/1945. Indonesia becomes Independent.


AUGUST 18th. Vietnam Veterans day19/08/1871. Orville Wright. Pioneer aviator is born.20/08/1858. Charles Darwin publishes his theory of evolution.20/08/1968. Soviet Troops invade Czechoslovakia.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.26/08/1978. Cardinal Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul 1st.


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.


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


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.


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.


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.


31/08/1957. Malaysia gains its independence from Great Britain.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.

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