Anniversaries

29th August 1982 (26 Years)

Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress who won 3 Academy Awards, 2 Emmy Awards, 4 Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and the Tony Award for Best Actress, died.

29th August 2003 (5 Years)

Patrick Procktor, English artist, dies.

30th August 1716 (292 Years)

Lancelot Brown, more commonly known as Capability Brown, English landscape architect, was born.

30th August 1748 (260 Years)

Jacques-Louis David, French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the pre-eminent painter of the era, was born.

30th August 1797 (211 Years)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein, was born.

30th August 1963 (45 Years)

Guy Burgess, British double agent, died.

30th August 2006 (2 Years)

Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" For, Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that lasted more than 50 years, died.

31st August 1867 (141 Years)

Charles Baudelaire, French poet, died.

31st August 1888 (120 Years)

Mutilated body of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann Nichols was found.

31st August 1963 (45 Years)

George Braque, Cubist painter and sculptor, died.

31st August 1973 (35 Years)

John Ford, American film director, renowned both for Westerns as well as adaptations of classic 20th-century novels, died.

31st August 1997 (11 Years)

Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash in Paris.

31st August 2006 (2 Years)

Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

1st September 1838 (170 Years)

William Clark, American explorer, soldier, Indian agent and territorial governor, dies.

1st September 1914 (94 Years)

The Passenger Pigeon becomes extinct.

1st September 1939 (69 Years)

Germany invaded Poland, commencing World War II.

1st September 1967 (41 Years)

Death by suicide of female nazi criminal Ilse Koch.

2nd September 1666 (342 Years)

Great Fire of London, major conflagration that swept through the central parts of London.

2nd September 1937 (71 Years)

Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin French educator and historian, and founder of the International Olympic Committee, died.

2nd September 1945 (63 Years)

Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II throughout the rest of the world.

3rd September 1838 (170 Years)

Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor.

3rd September 1935 (73 Years)

Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an auto mobile over 300 mph.

3rd September 1939 (69 Years)

Beginning of WWII - France, the UK, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland.

3rd September 1943 (65 Years)

WWII: The Allied invasion of Italy began.

3rd September 1991 (17 Years)

Frank Russell Capra, Italian-American film director, producer and writer of some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s, died.

4th September 1768 (240 Years)

François-René de Chateaubriand, French historian and politician, was born.

4th September 1888 (120 Years)

George Eastman registers the name Kodak as a trademark.

4th September 1888 (120 Years)

Oskar Schlemmer, German painter and sculptor, is born.

4th September 1985 (23 Years)

The first pictures of the wreck of the Titanic are released 73 years after the liner sank with the loss of 1,500 lives.

5th September 1793 (215 Years)

French Revolution: The French National Convention initiated the Reign of Terror.

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