11 Aug 1897     Enid Blyton was born.
11 Aug 1929     Babe Ruth became the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career.
11 Aug 2003     NATO took over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
11 Aug 2014     Robin Williams died.
11 Aug 2019     Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth announced their separation after 8 months of marriage.

12 Aug 1492     Christopher Columbus arrived in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.
12 Aug 1851     Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine.
12 Aug 1908     Henry Ford’s company built the first Model T car.
12 Aug 1969     The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoyed a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
12 Aug 1977     The Space Shuttle Enterprise made its first free flight from the back of a Boeing 747.

13 Aug 1642     Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Mars’ southern polar cap.
13 Aug 1910     Florence Nightingale died.
13 Aug 1926     Stan Laurel married his first wife actress Lois Neilson.
13 Aug 1961     Construction of the Berlin Wall began in East Germany.
13 Aug 1967     ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway was released.

14 Aug 1592     The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.
14 Aug 1952     Prime Minister Anthony Eden married William Chuchill’s  niece Clarissa Spencer-Churchill.

15 Aug 1899     Fratton Park football ground in Portsmouth opened.
15 Aug 1903     New Zealand’s All Blacks played their first Rugby Test Match against Australia.
15 Aug 1914     The Panama Canal opened to traffic with the cargo ship SS Ancon being the first through.
15 Aug 1939     ‘The Wizard of Oz’ had its premiere in Los Angeles.
15 Aug 1945     Allied nations celebrated VJ Day, marking the end of WWII.
15 Aug 1958     Buddy Holly married Maria Santiago.
15 Aug 1965     The Beatles played to 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, the birth of stadium rock.
15 Aug 1969     Woodstock Festival opened in Bethel, New York.
15 Aug 1998     Apple introduced the iMac computer.

16 Aug 1930     The first British Empire Games opened in Hamilton, Ontario.
16 Aug 1974     The Ramones played their debut gig in New York City.
16 Aug 1977     Elvis Presley died.
16 Aug 1968     Frank Sinatra and his third wife Mia Farrow divorced after 2 years of marriage.
16 Aug 2008     Usain Bolt set a new world record of 9.69 seconds to win the coveted 100m gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
16 Aug 2008     Michael Phelps became the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.
16 Aug 2012     Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange was granted political asylum by Ecuador.
16 Aug 2018     Aretha Franklin died.

17 Aug 1836     British parliament accepts registration of births, marriages and deaths.
17 Aug 1945     Korea was divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.
17 Aug 1998     President Bill Clinton admitted to an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
17 Aug 2008     Phil Collins divorced Orianne Cevey after six years of marriage.