On This Day On This Day August 1, 1976: Formula One champion Niki Lauda fights for life after Grand Prix crash
On This Day On This Day August 3, 1936: Jesse Owens wins 100m gold in front of Adolf Hitler at the Berlin Olympics
On This Day On This Day August 5, 1962: Marilyn Monroe, America's most famous sex symbol, is found dead at 36
On This Day On This Day August 6, 1945: Hiroshima devastated and thousands killed by Allies’ atomic bomb
On This Day On This Day August 7, 1974: 'Criminal artist' Philippe Petit makes daring tightrope walk between New York’s Twin Towers
On This Day On This Day August 8, 1991: Hostage John McCarthy is free after more than five years in captivity
On This Day On This Day August 9, 1979: Britain’s first nudist beach gets the go-ahead in Brighton despite objections
On This Day On This Day August 10, 2003: Britain basks in record high temperatures as mercury hits 38.5 degrees
On This Day On This Day August 11, 1966: John Lennon defends his claim that the Beatles are 'more popular than Jesus'
On This Day On This Day August 12, 2012: London's Olympics sign off with a spectacular star-studded finale
On This Day On This Day August 13, 1961: Berlin Wall divides a city as East German rulers raise barbed-wire border
On This Day On This Day August 14, 1979: Tragedy strikes the Fastnet yacht race as 15 die in violent storms
On This Day On This Day August 17, 1981: England beat Australia at Old Trafford to win ‘Botham’s Ashes’
On This Day On This Day August 18, 1964: South Africa is banned from the Tokyo Olympics over apartheid regime
On This Day On This Day August 19, 1991: Boris Yeltsin helps foil hardline coup against Soviet reformer Gorbachev
On This Day On This Day August 20, 1989: 51 people killed as Thames pleasure boat Marchioness is rammed by dredger
On This Day On This Day August 21, 1968: Tanks roll into Czechoslovakia as Dubcek’s Prague Spring comes to a bloody end
On This Day On This Day August 22, 1985: 55 die as fire rips through holiday jet at Manchester Airport
On This Day On This Day August 23, 1973: Heist gives rise to ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ as hostages bond with captors
On This Day On This Day August 25, 1944: Paris is liberated as Germany surrenders following Resistance uprising
On This Day On This Day August 26, 1980: That’s all, folks! Animator and Looney Tunes creator Tex Avery dies
On This Day On This Day August 27, 1979: Lord Mountbatten is assassinated by IRA bomb on family fishing trip
On This Day On This Day August 28, 1963: Martin Luther King delivers iconic 'I Have a Dream' speech in Washington DC
On This Day On This Day August 29, 2005: One million people flee their homes as Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans
On This Day On This Day August 30, 1976: Racial tensions run high as Notting Hill Carnival ends in riots
On This Day On This Day August 31, 1997: World mourns 'People's Princess' as Diana is killed in Paris
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