Anniversaries

8th August 1921 (90 Years)

Esther Williams, American swimmer, actress, and singer, was born.

8th August 1963 (48 Years)

Great Train Robbery: £2.6 million robbed from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire.

9th August 1516 (495 Years)

Hieronymus Bosch, northern European painter, best known for his fantastic and detailed imagery, died.

9th August 1902 (109 Years)

Edward VII and wife Alexandra are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Empire at Westminster Abbey, London.

9th August 1919 (92 Years)

Ralph Albert Blakelock, romanticist American painter known primarily for his landscape paintings related to the Tonalism movement, dies aged 71.

9th August 1930 (81 Years)

Betty Boop is making her debut in a cartoon.

9th August 1936 (75 Years)

Jesse Owens became the first American to win 4 gold medals at a single Olympic in Berlin.

9th August 1945 (66 Years)

The United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki in Japan.

9th August 1962 (49 Years)

Hermann Karl Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, died.

9th August 1974 (37 Years)

Richard Nixon resigned from the Presidency, following Watergate Scandal.

10th August 1784 (227 Years)

Allan Ramsay, prominent Scottish portrait painter, dies aged 70.

10th August 1792 (219 Years)

French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.

10th August 1793 (218 Years)

The Musée du Louvre was officially opened in Paris, France.

10th August 1793 (218 Years)

The Musée du Louvre was officially opened in Paris, France.

10th August 1928 (83 Years)

Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor, was born.

11th August 1614 (397 Years)

Lavinia Fontana, the Italian painter regarded as the first woman artist, dies.

11th August 1937 (74 Years)

Edith Wharton, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer, died.

11th August 1956 (55 Years)

Jackson Pollock, American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, dies.

12th August 1827 (184 Years)

William Blake, poet, painter, printmaker and author of the poem The Tyger, died.

12th August 1939 (72 Years)

The Wizard of Oz premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood (released in theatres everywhere on August 25th).

12th August 1942 (69 Years)

The Second Moscow Conference between the major Allies of World War II convenes.

12th August 1988 (23 Years)

Jean-Michel Basquiat, American painter, died.

13th August 1863 (148 Years)

Eugene Delacroix, French romantic artist, dies.

13th August 1888 (123 Years)

John Logie Baird, inventor of TV, was born.

13th August 1899 (112 Years)

Alfred Hitchcock, the British film director and producer, also known as the "Master of Suspense" was born.

13th August 1926 (85 Years)

Fidel Castro, Cuban lawyer, communist politician and revolutionary, is born.

13th August 1937 (74 Years)

The Battle of Shanghai, the 1st and bloodiest battle fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War, began.

13th August 1937 (74 Years)

The Battle of Shanghai, the 1st and bloodiest battle fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War, began.

13th August 1946 (65 Years)

H. G. Wells, English novelist and journalist best known for such science fiction novels, dies.

14th August 1867 (144 Years)

John Galsworthy, novelist, is born.

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