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1 August 1814
View of the Naumachy Fireworks and Fair in Hyde Park during the Grand Jubilee in celebration of the victory over Napoleon culminating the Glorious Peace and in honor of the Centennial of Hanoverian rule.
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2 August 1935
Human Canon Ball - Captain Cliff Gregg of Ocean Park in California permits himself to be shot out of the mouth of a cannon into the ocean.
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3 August 1938
Rent strikes in the East End of London.
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4 August 1959
Che Guevara
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5 August 1945
The mushroom cloud above Hiroshima after the atomic bomb devasted the city. WWII
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6 August 1890
Execution of William Kemmler, the first man to die in the electric chair, Auburn Prison, USA.
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7 August 1566
Large black globes were seen over Basel on 7 August 1566.
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8 August 1974
President Richard Nixon makes farewell speech to White House staff, Washington DC.
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9 August 1902
The new King is crowned: King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in the coronation procession
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10 August 1904
The naval battle off Port Arthur - Russo-Japanese War. Explosion on board the Russian warship Tsarevich, flagship of Admiral Witheft (Withoeft).
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11 August 1964
Thousands of movie goers and spectators jammed the Times Square area and the Astor Theatre for two gala premiers of the Beatles first feature film 'A Hard Days Night'
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12 August 1949
The signing of the 'Geneva Conventions of 12th August 1949' in the room of the Council General in Geneva.
The British signatory, Sir Robert Leslie Cragie signs, to his right is Federal councillor M. Max Petitpierre.
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13 August 1961
Barbed wire around West Berlin as construction of the Berlin Wall begins. Movement between East Berlin and West Berlin remains restricted for the next 28 years
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14 August 1942
An Australian soldier re-christens the Alamein station.
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15 August 1952
75 year old W.C. Worth being carried to safety from his flooded house after storms caused severe flooding in Plymouth, Devon, England.
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16 August 1963
The three men arrested in connection with the Great Train Robbery are handcuffed together and have blankets over their heads after appearing at Linslade Court, Buckinghamshire.
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17 August 1978
Larry Newman on his arrival in France after having made the first crossing of the Atlantic in a balloon with fellow Americans, Ben Abruzzo and Max Anderson.
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18 August 1965
Catherine Deneuve and David Bailey make their way down a police cordon to an awaiting car after their marriage at St Pancras Town Hall, London.
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19 August 1991
Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, makes his speech denouncing the coup whilst standing on a tank outside the White House, Moscow.
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20 August 1940
Leon Trotsky in hospital after his assassination, Mexico City.
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21 August 1952
The Beverley Sisters (l to r) Teddy, Joy & Babs
London Airport.
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22 August 1935
Escaping the heat on London's own 'Seaside' on 'The Beach' at the Tower.
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23 August 1934
Oswald Mosley speaks to ten thousand followers in the Royal Albert Hall, Kensington, London.
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24 August 1926
The body of Rudolph Valentino lies in state in New York City for fans to pay their respects.
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25 August 1944
The armoured cars of Leclerc's division arriving rue Guynemer during the Liberation of Paris, World War II.
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26 August 1789
Declaration of Human Rights, Paris, musée Carnavalet.
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27 August 1964
The Elephant and Castle shopping centre built at the cost of £2.000.000. Rebuilding 2005
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28 August 1963
Martin Luther King 'Has A Dream'
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29 August 1931
Mahatma Gandhi departs Bombay.
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30 August 1963
Two men wanted for Great Train Robbery.
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31 August 1937
Alf Hardy carries eighteen baskets at Borough Market.
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