18 Aug 1737     The public were first admitted into the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris.
18 Aug 1923     The first British Track and Field championships for women were held in London.
18 Aug 1926     The weather map was used on TV for the first time.
18 Aug 1969     The Woodstock Music festival came to an end after three days of sex, drugs and rock n roll.

19 Aug 1561     Mary, Queen of Scots, returned to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
19 Aug 1940     The first flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
19 Aug 1964     Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, was launched. Two months later, it enabled live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics to be seen around the world.
19 Aug 1977     Groucho Marx died.19 Aug 1987     A gunman killed 14 people in the Hungerford rampage.
19 Aug 2008     Lady Gaga’s debut album ‘The Fame’ was released.

20 Aug 1940     Winston Churchill delivered the line to the RAF, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”.
20 Aug 1989     30 people died after the  Marchioness pleasure cruiser collided with a barge on the River Thames.
20 Aug 1992     Sting married Trudie Styler at an 11th century chapel in Wiltshire.
20 Aug 1992     Intimate photographs of the Duchess of York and a Texan businessman were published in the tabloids.
20 Aug 1995     ‘Battle of Brit Pop’ rival bands Oasis and Blur released ‘Roll with It’ and ‘Country House’ on the same day.
20 Aug 2000     Tiger Woods became the first since Ben Hogan (1953) to win 3 majors in a calendar year.

21 Aug 1942     Walt Disney’s animated film ‘Bambi’ was released, based on the book by Felix Salten.
21 Aug 1959     Hawaii became the 50th US state.
21 Aug 1986     Ian Botham took a world-record 356th Test Cricket wicket during a match against NZ at The Oval.
21 Aug 2001     Nickelback released the single ‘How You Remind Me’.
21 Aug 2020     Korean pop group BTS released the single ‘Dynamite’ that became the first video to be watched more than 100 million times in 24 hours on YouTube.

22 Aug 565       St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness.
22 Aug 1849     The first air raid in history took place when Austria launched pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
22 Aug 1927     Charlie Chaplin divorced his second wife Lita Grey after 3 years of marriage.
22 Aug 1932     The BBC began experimental regular TV broadcasts.

23 Aug 1305     Scottish patriot William Wallace was executed.
23 Aug 1926     Rudolph Valentino died.
23 Aug 1933     Archie Sexton and Lauri Raiteri featured in the first televised boxing match aired by BBC-TV.
23 Aug 1946     ‘The Big Sleep’ starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall had its film premier.
23 Aug 1962     John Lennon married Cynthia Powell.
23 Aug 2010     Former Swedish model Elin Nordegren divorced Tiger Woods after 6 years of marriage.

24 Aug 1875     Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim the English Channel.
24 Aug 1968     France becomes the world’s fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific.
24 Aug 2014     Richard Attenborough died
24 Aug 2020     Rolling Stones’ drummer Charlie Watts died.