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(30-07-2013 09:53 )4evadionne Wrote:  July 30th

1965 - Britain: Figures show that ITV's Coronation Street is the most popular weekly TV programme.

It was still the most popular program last week with 7.82 million viewers.

Eastenders only got 6.96 million.

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1909 - Germany: Count von Zeppelin makes a 220-mile flight at 21mph in his latest airship.

1910 - Canada: Murderer Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen is arrested on board the "SS Montrose" off the Canadian coast, becoming the first criminal to caught by radio.

1914 - Berlin: The Kaiser issues a formal ultimatum to Russia and asks for assurances regarding the intentions of the French.

1917: Britain: Gay Crusader ridden by Steve Donoghue wins the rescheduled wartime Derby at Newmarket by 4 lengths.

1921 - Brussels: A new law divides Belgium into French and Flemish provinces.

1928 - London: A government committee announces Smallpox can be eradicated from the world by systematic vaccination.

1932 - Germany: German voters hand Adolf Hitler's brownshirts a resounding election victory.

1936 - London: The Education Bill and The Midwives Bill are given the Royal assent.

1939 - London: Neville Chamberlain announces that three power military talks will begin in Moscow as soon as possible.

1944 - France: The American Third Army overruns Brittany.

1947 - London: The Transport Ministry approves plans for the worlds biggest suspension bridge over the River Severn.

1950 - London: J. Sainsbury's first self-service store opens in Croydon.

1958 - Cyprus: In a day of violence across the island, eight people die.

1963 - London: Viscount Stansgate becomes the first peer to renounce his title, he is now Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

1964 - USA: The US satellite "Ranger 7" sends back the first close-up pictures of the moons surface.

1969 - USA - The US satellite "Mariner 6" sends back close-up pictures of the surface of Mars.

1972 - Ulster: In a dawn action named "Operation Motorman", 12,000 troops, supported by tanks and bulldozers smash Ulster's no-go areas, ending months of anarchy by extremists.

1975 - Northern Ireland: Three members of the Dublin group Miami Showband die in an ambush near Newry, County Down.

1980 - Britain: Shirley Williams, Bill Rodgers, and Dr David Owen urge Labour members to join them against the far left.

1981 - Panama: President Omar Torrijos dies in a plane crash.

1987 - Britain: Margaret Thatcher gives a snub to her closest ally President Ronald Reagan by turning down a request to send minesweepers to the Gulf to clear the way for American warships and tankers.

1991 - Britain: The Sheikh of Abu Dhabi deposits £50million in a London bank to help British depositors in BCCI.

2007 - Egypt: Archaeologists discover the remains of the lost city of Rhakotis in Alexandria's East Bay.

2009 - Italy: The lost Roman City of Altinum believed to be the forerunner of Venice is revealed by ariel photographs.

August 1st

1901 - London: The House of Commons votes for an additional £12.5 million for the army and naval war budgets.

1907 - Liverpool: The new Cunard liner "Lusitania" completes a 1,200 mile journey in 48 hours.

1908 - Cuba: The first elections under US supervision are held.

1909 - Spain: An anti-government revolt in Catalonia leaves as many as 1,000 people dead.

1912 - Britain: An air mail service opens between London and Paris.

1920 - London: The first congress of the British Communist Party opens.

1922 - France: 20 people die and 32 are injured when a train carrying pilgrims to Lourdes crashes.

1928 - Yugoslavia: Croatian deputies set up a separatist parliament in Zagreb.

1929 - Paris: The world's first congress on radiotherapy opens.

1935 - Britain: Hull City Council is asked by the government to look into the feasibility of a new bridge over the Humber.

1936 - Berlin: Adolf Hitler opens the Berlin Olympic Games.

1938 - Rome: Benito Mussolini puts curbs on books written by Jews.

1939 - USA: Big Band leader Glenn Miller records the song "In the Mood."

1941 - Washington: President Roosevelt bans US aviation fuel exports outside the western hemisphere and the British Empire.

1942 - USSR: The Germans cut the railway line from Stalingrad to Krasnodar.

1944 - Britain: Scientists announce that DDT has been found to act as an anti-malarial insecticide.

1950 - Brussels: Prince Baudouin is sworn in as Prince Regent.

1954 - London: The UK Atomic Energy Authority is established.

1956 - London: Britain, France, and the US hold urgent talks on the Suez Canal crisis.

1957 - London: A £17 million expansion scheme for Heathrow Airport is unveiled.

1966 - USA: Charles Whitman shoots dead 12 people at Texas University in Austin, before being killed by a policeman.

1968 - USA: President Nixon, calls for the US role in Vietnam to be scaled down.

1971 - New York: Led by George Harrison, some of rock music's finest artists including Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, and Ravi Shankar, play two sold out shows at Madison Square Garden to help refugees from Bangladesh, with more than 40,000 people attending the two shows.

1976 - West Germany: World F1 champion Niki Lauda is seriously burned in an accident in the German Grand Prix.

1980 - Ireland: 17 people die and 51 are seriously hurt when the Dublin to Cork Express train jumps the rails.

1984 - Hong Kong: Sir Geoffrey Howe announces a framework of the deal for the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997.

1987 - USA: Mike Tyson defeats Tony Tucker to become undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion.

1990 - Britain: Hospital waiting lists stand at 881,000 the highest for six years.

1994 - Britain: A fire in Norwich Central Library destroys irreplaceable historic documents and more than 100,000 books.

2004 - Kuwait: Kuwait bans Michael Moore's documentary Fahenheit 9/11, deeming it to be insulting to the Saudi Arabian Royal Family and critical of America's invasion of Iraq.

2008 - USA: Unemployment rises to 5.7% the highest rate in more than four years.

August 2nd

1908 - Canada: 100 people die as forest fires sweep across parts of British Columbia.

1920 - London: The government reveals a new bill to restore order in Ireland, which includes the suspension of jury trials.

1923 - USA: Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as President, following the death of Warren G. Harding.

1924 - London: The Prince of Wales attends a huge Boy Scout Jamboree at Wembley Stadium.

1928 - USA: Cecil B. De Mille joins Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a director.

1930 - Rome: The Italian government authorises the Vatican to issue currency of up to one million liras a year.

1932 - Los Angeles: Britain's Tommy Hampson wins the 800 metres Olympic gold medal in a world record time of 1 minute 49.8 seconds.

1933 - Nicaragua: Martial law is declared throughout the country.

1934 - Berlin: Adolf Hitler assumes the title of "Fuehrer" after the death of President Hindenburg.

1943 - Sicily: The Allies break through the final Axis defence lines on the island.

1948 - USA: In one of the biggest "witch-hunts" of all time, two Congressional Committees being inquiring into allegations that over 30 US officials belong to a Communist spy ring.

1952 - Washington: President Truman signs a protocol to the NATO pact incorporating the European Defence Community.

1954 - Washington: Josef McCarthy alleges serious Communist infiltration of the CIA, and nuclear weapons plants.

1964 - Britain: Police are flown to Hastings to break up clashes between Mods and Rockers.

1965 - France: Forest fires sweep across the French Riviera.

1967 - London: The £8 million Dartford Tunnel under the Thames opens.

1968 - Los Angeles: Sirhan Sirhan pleads not guilty to the murder of Robert F. Kennedy.

1969 - Bucharest: Richard Nixon arrives on a first visit by a US President to a Communist country in nearly 25 years.

1970 - Belfast: The Army use rubber bullets for the first time.

1971 - Pakistan: The Pakistani Army kill 95 Indian soldiers in a border clash.

1973 - Isle of Man: The "Summerland" entertainment complex in Douglas is destroyed by fire. 30 people are killed, with around 80 seriously burnt.

1979 - Northern Ireland: An IRA landmine kills two soldiers, bringing the death total since 1969 to 301.

1984: Strasbourg: The European Human Rights Court condemns phone-tapping authorised by the Home Secretary.

1994 - Rome: The Vatican blames Italian "Selfishness" for the declining birthrate.

1995 - West Bank: Israeli settlers protest against Yitzhak Rabin's plan to hand over the West Bank to the PLO.

1997 - London: Foreign Secretary Robin Cook announces that he is to leave his wife of 28 years for Gaynor Regan, a political aide.

1998 - France: A drug scandalled Tour de France is won by Italian Marco Pantani.

2005: USA - Scientists at Stanford University, California use nanotechnology to kill cancer cells without harming healthy tissue.

2009 - Norway: A large oil spill occurs in Langesund after a Chinese ship the "Full City" drifts aground.

August 3rd

1902 - London: The Post Office sends its first parcel mail to the US on the White Star liner Teutonic

1908 - Britain: "HMS Indomitable" sets a new steamship speed record of 26 knots.

1914 - London: The Government tells Germany that the UK will stand by the 1839 Treaty of London, guaranteeing Belgian neutrality, and to protect French coasts.

1919 - Liverpool: Riots break out as a Police strike leads to widespread law-breaking.

1920 - Belfast: Catholics riot in protest at the presence of British troops in Ireland.

1925 - USA: A court in Indiana orders a motorist who killed a pedestrian to spend one hour alone with the victim's body.

1926 - London: The capital's first traffic lights come into operation at Piccadilly Circus.

1931 - China: Hundreds die when a dam on the River Yangtse-Kiang near Hankow bursts during a typhoon.

1936 - Berlin: Jesse Owens wins the 100 metres Olympic gold medal.

1938 - Rome: Benito Mussolini bans foreign Jews from attending Italian higher education institutions.

1945 - Prague: All Germans and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia are deprived of citizenship.

1946 - New York: Ireland and Portugal join the list of applicants for membership of the UN.

1948 - Budapest: Pro-Soviet Socialist Arpad Szakasits is sworn in as Hungary's new president.

1955 - London: Housing minister Duncan Sandys tells 140 local authorities to set up "green belts" similar to London's.

1957 - Kuala Lumpur: Abdul Rahman is elected for a five-year term as first premier of independent Malaya.

1960 - Congo: Rebel Moise Tshombe mobilises Katangan troops against UN forces.

1966 - USA: Comedian Lenny Bruce dies of a drugs overdose.

1968 - Britain: The Countryside Act, comes into force, allowing local authorities to designate country parks.

1979 - Equatorial Guinea: One of the worlds most brutal dictators, Francisco Nguema is overthrown in a coup.

1989 - Lebanon: Terrorists lift their threat to kill hostage Joseph Cicippio.

1990 - Britain: A record heatwave brings temperatures of up to 98.8F.

1992 - Moscow: A Russian-Ukranian accord is signed that places the Black Sea Fleet under joint command.

1993 - Brussels: NATO prepares for possible air strikes against the Bosnian Serbs besieging Sarajevo.

1996 - Atlanta: Muhammed Ali is awarded an honorary gold medal to replace the one he rejected at the 1960 Rome Olympics.

2004 - USA: The Statue of Liberty opens to the public for the first time since the 9/11 attacks.

2008 - Iraq: 12 people are killed when a minibus explodes in Baghdad.

August 4th

1903 - Rome: Giuseppe Sarto, becomes Pope Pius X

1904 - Britain: The first Atlantic weather forecast is received by wireless telegraph.

1906 - Spain: The Italian passenger boat "Sirio" is wrecked off the coast of Cape Palos, with the loss of over 200 lives.

1914 - London: Sir John Jellicoe is appointed Supreme Admiral of the Home Fleets.

1916 - Washington: The US pays $25 million for the Danish Virgin Islands.

1919 - Budapest: Rumanian troops occupy the city, ending Bela Kun's 133 day-old communist republic.

1929 - Jerusalem: The Wailing Wall is the centre of Arab-Jewish unrest as Jews demand it's undisputed possession.

1934 - Moscow: The USSR assumes diplomatic relations with Bulgaria.

1936 - Berlin: Jesse Owens wins the Olympic gold medal in the Long Jump.

1938 - Britain: Bryn Jones transfers from Wolves to Arsenal for a record fee of £13,000.

1940 - East Africa: The Italians attack British Somaliland from bases in Abyssinia.

1942 - London: The Duke of Kent names President Roosevelt as his second son's godfather.

1943 - USSR: The Soviet Army capture the key town of Orel from the Germans.

1949 - Prague: A Catholic priest is jailed for refusing the last rites to a Catholic woman.

1953 - West Berlin: 6,000 communists from the East raid two food distribution centres in the western sector of Berlin.

1954 - Britain: The "P-1 Lightning" Britain's first supersonic fighter has it's maiden flight.

1959 - Britain: Barclay's becomes the first British bank to order a computer for its branch accounts.

1961 - London: MP's approve the government's proposal to join the Common Market.

1970 - Tel Aviv: Israel refuses to withdraw to its pre-1967 borders.

1972 - Italy: The Black September group attack a transalpine oil pipeline causing $35 million of damage.

1975 - Tokyo: Seven Red Army members are freed when terrorists vow to blow up the US embassy in Malaysia.

1980 - London: 56 Iranians are arrested during a protest outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square.

1983 - Rome: Bettino Craxi is sworn in as Italy's first socialist Prime Minister.

1985 - Hungary: British athlete Steve Cram sets a new world record for the 2,000 metres of 4 minutes 51.39 seconds.

1987 - Britain: Moors Murderer Ian Brady claims to committing five more killings.

1989 - Britain: An interim report on the Hillsborough disaster lays the blame on police action.

1990 - Saudi Arabia: Saudi forces go onto full alert as Iraqi troops breach the neutral zone at the Kuwait border.

1995 - London: The Queen Mother celebrates her 95th birthday.

1996 - Atlanta: Josia Thugwane becomes the first black South African to win an Olympic gold medal with his victory in the men's marathon.

1997 - Athens: Australian Cathy Freedman wins the women's 400 metres at the World Athletics Championships, to become the first gold medal winner for an athlete of aboriginal descent.

2006 - Britain: The Domesday Book, the 920 year-old census record of England under William the Conqueror goes online.

2008 - Himalayas: Eleven climbers from an international expedition are reported dead after an ice fall on part of the K2 mountain.

1962: Marilyn Monroe found dead
Screen icon Marilyn Monroe has been found dead in bed at her Los Angeles home.
The 36-year-old actress' body was discovered in the early hours of this morning by two doctors who were called to her Brentwood home by a concerned housekeeper.

The doctors were forced to break into Miss Monroe's bedroom after being unable to open the door. She was found lying naked in her bed with an empty bottle of Nembutal sleeping pills by her side.

The local coroner, who visited the scene later, said the circumstances of Miss Monroe's death indicated a "possible suicide".

From rags to riches

Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on 1 June 1926 in Los Angeles.

Her mother, Gladys Baker, had mental problems which resulted in Norma Jeane spending most of her childhood in foster homes and orphanages.

She wed her neighbour, Jimmy Dougherty in 1942, but the marriage failed in 1946 due to Norma Jeane's new-found fame as a photographic model.

In 1944 while her husband was serving in the South Pacific with the Merchant Marines, Norma Jeane was discovered by photographer David Conover.

By 1946 she had signed her first studio contract with 20th Century Fox and changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.

Since 1947 she has appeared in 30 films, including The Prince and the Showgirl, Bus Stop, The Seven Year Itch, How to Marry a Millionaire and Some Like it Hot, for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy.

Her 1954 marriage to baseball star Joe DiMaggio lasted just nine months and on 29 June 1956 the star married playwright Arthur Miller.

But that marriage ended in 1961. Miss Monroe's romantic life has long been the subject of speculation and she has been linked with President Kennedy.

Millions of fans around the world will be deeply shocked by the star's premature and tragic death.


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The local coroner said the circumstances indicated "a possible suicide"


Director John Huston: "She fought her enemy, consciousness, with sedatives"




In Context
Marilyn Monroe was buried in the Corridor of Memories at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
Two months before she died Monroe had been fired by Fox Productions for repeatedly failing to turn up on the set of the film Something Has Got To Give.

The production was never completed even though Monroe was re-hired by the film company on 1 August.

During the months before her death she had been seeing Joe DiMaggio and the pair had agreed to re-marry on 8 August 1962.

For 20 years after her death flowers from DiMaggio were delivered weekly to Monroe's vault.

There has been much speculation about Marilyn Monroe's death and the causes of it. Many have suggested that it was highly unlikely she committed suicide but perhaps accidentally took an overdose of drugs.

Others have suggested that a third party may have administered the drug.


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1975: Deadly tree disease spreads



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August 5th

1900 - Russia: Anti-Jewish riots break out across Odessa.

1916 - France: American chewing gum goes on sale across the country.

1921 - Naples: Around 50,000 mourners attend the funeral of opera singer Enrico Caruso.

1922 - Milan: Benito Mussolini's Fascist's break a Communist led strike to take control of the city.

1925 - Washington: 50,000 miles of roads are designated "US Highways" by the Interstate Highways Board.

1926 - Paris: France and Germany sign a trade accord.

1930 - Washington: Douglas MacArthur is appointed Chief of Staff of the US Army.

1934 - Algeria: 100 Jews and Arabs are reported dead after a day of religious shootings.

1936 - Berlin: Jesse Owens wins the Olympic 200 metres gold medal.

1947 - Palestine: 35 Zionist leaders are detained for terrorist activities.

1949 - USA: Actress Ingrid Bergman announces her intention to marry film director Roberto Rossellini.

1950 - London: The government announce a new programme to double arms production.

1952 - Tokyo: Japan resumes diplomatic relations with Nationalist China.

1954 - Tehran: Britain and Iran sign a deal to give Anglo-Iranian oil up to £238 million for nationalisation of its oil.

1962 - USA: Screen legend Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her bed at her home in Los Angeles from a suspected drug overdose.

1972 - Washington: John F. Kennedy's brother-in-law Sargent Shriver is chosen as the Democrats vice-presidential candidate.

1975 - Britain: Foresters announce that Dutch Elm disease, which is effecting over 3 million trees in the South and the Midlands is spreading further afield.

1984 - Geneva: Five time married Screen legend Richard Burton dies after suffering a stroke.

1995 - Serbia: Croatian forces capture Knin the capital of Serbian held Krajina after 30 hours of intense fighting.

1998 - East Timor: Portugal and Indonesia pledge to negotiate an agreement giving East Timor partial autonomy from Indonesia, which annexed the island over 20 years earlier.

2007 - Scotland: Mexican golfer Lorena Ochoa wins the Women's British Open at St Andrews by 4 strokes.

2010: Germany: A piano thought to have been played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is discovered in Baden-Baden.

August 6th

1906 - Britain: The UK basks in a 90 degree heatwave, with London Parks doing record business.

1907 - Holland: Dockers come out on strike in Antwerp. Management bring in 250 Dockers from Britain as replacements.

1914 - Europe: Austria declares war on Russia, and Serbia declares war on Germany.

1915 - Eastern Front: The Austrian parliament demand the unification of Poland with Galicia to become part of the Habsberg Empire.

1919 - London: King George V awards PM David Lloyd George the Order of Merit for his services in wartime.

1920 - USA: Police open fire on striking tram drivers in Denver, Colorado, killing three people and injuring thirteen others.

1921 - Berlin: Huge tax increases are proposed to pay for German reparations.

1923 - Britain: American Swimmer Henry Sullivan swims the English Channel in 28 hours.

1929 - London: Britain and Egypt agree a draft treaty for the evacuation of British troops, except from the Suez Canal.

1932 - Italy: The first Venice Film Festival opens.

1934 - Germany: A 65-mile line of torches marks the route of President Hindenburg's funeral procession.

1935 - France: Serious unrest breaks out in Paris, Le Havre, and Brest in protest at government economies.

1941 - Tokyo: Japan proposes concessions to the US in South East Asia in return for unfreezing of Japanese assets.

1942 - USSR: The German Army advance on Stalingrad from the South.

1945 - Japan: The city of Hiroshima is destroyed by an atomic bomb.

1947 - London: Clement Atlee outlines a crisis plan for the British Economy in the Supplies and Services Bill.

1949 - Damascus: A bomb blast at a synagogue kills 12 people.

1952 - Middle East: The Arab League denounces Israeli and West German moves to set up diplomatic relations.

1956 - China: 2,000 people are reported dead after a typhoon struck Chekiang province.

1961 - USSR: The USSR sends its second cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov into space.

1962 - Jamaica: The island gets its independence after 307 years of British rule.

1967 - Tel Aviv: Israel and Jordan agree a scheme for the repatriation of 175,000 Arab refugees to occupied land.

1973 - Britain: Convicted bank robber Kenneth Littlejohn claims he was an MI6 spy inside the IRA.

1976 - London: Royal Assent is given to the Drought Bill.

1978 - Rome: Pope Paul VI dies of a heart attack.

1981 - Gambia: The coup bid against President Jarawa ends when British SAS men free 25 hostages held by rebels.

1987 - London: The Department of Trade and Industry refers the British Airways takeover of British Caledonian to the Monopolies Commission.

1991 - Yugoslavia: The leaders of Serbia and Croatia agree an unconditional cease-fire.

1992 - Haiti: A wave of terrorist attacks leaves 10 people dead.

2007 - Britain: A second case of foot and mouth disease is reported in Surrey, resulting in more cattle culling.

2009 - India: Hundreds of people queue at hospitals in Pune, to be tested for Swine Flu, following the first death from the disease in the country.

August 7th

1901 - South Africa: Lord Herbert Kitchener announces all Boer leaders must surrender by September 15th or face banishment.

1904 - USA: 125 people die when a railway bridge collapses at Pueblo in California.

1912 - Far East: Russia and Japan reach agreement on their spheres of influence in Mongolia and Manchuria.

1913 - Farnborough: Aviator Samuel Cody is killed in an aeroplane crash.

1917 - Western Front: The Germans bomb Allied hospitals, killing many American troops.

1921 - New York: Organs replace orchestras in Broadway's biggest cinemas.

1922 - Irish Free State: The IRA blow up the telegraph cable station at Waterville, cutting US lines to Europe.

1929 - USA: The German airship Graf Zeppelin takes off for a round the world flight from Lakehurst, New Jersey.

1938 - New York: The Queen Mary sets a record for the westward Atlantic crossing of 3 days, 23 hours, 48 minutes.

1940 - Europe: Alsace-Lorraine and Luxembourg become part of Germany.

1942 - Pacific: US Marines land on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

1950 - Korea: The US launches its biggest attack on North Korea at Chinju.

1955 - Karachi: Mohammed Ali resigns as prime minister of Pakistan.

1957 - California: Half of one of worlds greatest comedy duos Oliver Hardy dies at his Hollywood Home from Cerebral Thrombosis aged 65.

1959 - London: Buckingham Palace announces that the Queen is expecting a third child early in the New Year.

1962 - USSR: The government announces plans to abolish single family houses in urban areas.

1966 - Germany: Australian driver Jack Brabham wins the German Grand Prix.

1970 - Moscow: The USSR signs a non-aggression treaty with West Germany.

1975 - London: The capital has its hottest day for 35 years with temperatures of 32 degrees.

1981 - Poland: A million Solidarity members go on strike in protest at the Polish food and economic crisis.

1986 - Ireland: Democratic Unionist deputy leader Peter Robinson is arrested at a Loyalist protest in the republic.

1992 - Rome: President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique and Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the Renamo rebels, sign an agreement to end their 17-year civil war.

1995 - Moscow: President Boris Yeltsin returns to work four weeks after being admitted to hospital with acute heart trouble.

2009 - Britain: Great train robber Ronnie Biggs is freed on medical grounds.

2010 - Iraq: 5 Iraqi policemen are killed in an overnight shooting in western Baghdad. While another officer is killed at a checkpoint outside Fallujah.