Forward Planner: News Anniversaries for the next 6 months
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August 2025
2 Years (2023)
Aug 01: Global warming: The world's oceans reach a new record high temperature of 20.96 °C (69.73 °F).
Aug 18: Global - The United States, Japan, and South Korea agree to sign a trilateral pact.
5 Years (2020)
Aug 05: COVID-19 pandemic: The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 700,000
Aug 10: COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 20 million worldwide.
Aug 11: COVID-19 pandemic: Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that Russia has approved the world's first COVID-19 vaccine.
Aug 13: Israel and the UAE agree to normalise relations, marking the third Israel–Arab peace deal.
Aug 21: Sir Kenneth Robinson (4 March 1950 – 21 August 2020) was a British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies. He was director of the Arts in Schools Project (1985–89) and Professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick (1989–2001), and Professor Emeritus after leaving the university. In 2003 he was knighted for services to the arts.
Aug 22: COVID-19 pandemic: The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 800,000.
Aug 25: Africa is declared free of wild polio, the second virus to be eradicated from the continent since smallpox 40 years previously.
Aug 26: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos becomes the first person in history to have a net worth exceeding US$200 billion, according to Forbes.
Aug 30: COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 25 million worldwide. India continues to record the highest daily increase of cases.
10 Years (2015)
Aug 02: Death of UK singer & TV presenter Cilla Black aged 72 in Spain.
Aug 03: Ex City Trader Tom Hayes jailed for 14 years for rigging LIBOR interest rates.
Aug 05: Closure of UK children's charity 'Kid's Company' as funds dry up.
Aug 06: British actor George Cole dies aged 90.('Arthur Daley' in TV series 'Minder').
Aug 13: 2 large explosions in Tianjin, Northern China, kill more than 100.
Aug 17: Terrorist bombing in a religious shrine in Thai capital Bangkok. Over 20 killed.
Aug 18: Confidential stolen details of 32m users of Ashley Madison dating website put on internet.
Aug 18: Stolen details of 32m users of Ashley Madison dating website put on internet.
Aug 19: Former British Olympic runner Sir Sebastian Coe appointed President of IAAF.
Aug 20: Funeral of UK singer & TV presenter Cilla Black in Liverpool.
Aug 22: Hawker Hunter jet crashes Shoreham Air Show, West Sussex. At least 11 killed.
Aug 22: RAF Hawker Hunter jet crashes Shoreham Air Show, West Sussex. 11 killed. 14 injured.
Aug 26: Official figures put net migration into UK at 330,000, 3 times over Government target.
Aug 26: US: Virginia: Journalists Alison Parker & Adam Ward shot dead live on air by colleague.
Aug 27: Bodies of 70 Syrian migrants found in abandoned lorry on Austrian motorway.
Aug 27: Ex teacher Jonathan Thomson-Glover jailed for indecent videos of pupils, Clifton College.
Aug 27: Ex teacher Jonathan Thomson-Glover jailed for indecent videos of pupils.
Aug 27: Over 500 migrants killed when two boats sink off Libyan coast.
Aug 27: Social media website 'Facebook' claims recording 1 billion users in a single day.
Aug 27: US: James Holmes jailed for life for killing 12 in Colorado cinema shooting July 2012.
Aug 28: Founder & Chief Exec of dating website Ashley Madison Noel Biderman, resigns.
Aug 28: Noel Biderman, founder & Chief Exec of dating website Ashley Madison, resigns.
Aug 28: UK: Lorry driver & 27 suspected illegal immigrants arrested on M25 in Surrey.
Aug 30: Death of US horror film director Wes Craven aged 76 ('Nightmare on Elm Street').
Aug 31: Death of Lord Montagu, aged 88. Founder National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.
Aug 31: UK: Death of Lord Montagu, aged 88. Founder National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.
15 Years (2010)
Aug 07: British singer Robbie Williams marries actress Ayda Field.
Aug 08: Death of American actress Patricia Neal aged 84.
Aug 23: Former Swedish model Elin Nordegren divorces American golfer Tiger Woods.
Aug 29: BBC TV broadcasts last edition of hit comedy 'Last of the Summer Wine'.
20 Years (2005)
Aug 01: Death of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
Aug 06: Death of Labour MP Robin Cook aged 59.
Aug 08: Death of American actress Barbara Bel Geddes ('Dallas')
Aug 19: Death of former UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Mo Mowlam.
Aug 22: Last Israeli settlers leave Gaza Strip ending 38 years of occupation.
Aug 23: Hurricane 'Katrina' hits New Orleans, Louisiana.
Aug 31: Death of Polish-born physicist Sir Joseph Rotblat aged 96.
25 Years (2000)
Aug 03: British politician Gordon Brown marries Sarah Jane Macaulay in Fife.
Aug 04: Celebration of 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
Aug 05: Death of English actor Sir Alec Guinness aged 86.
Aug 06: Death of political broadcaster Sir Robin Day aged 76.
Aug 12: Russian submarine 'Kursk' sinks in Barents Sea. All 118 on board killed.
30 Years (1995)
Aug 13: Death of English mountaineer Alison Hargreaves in an avalanche.
Aug 24: USA: Microsoft releases Windows 95.
Aug 27: Death of British cartoonist Carl Giles.
Aug 30: Start of NATO bombing campaign against Bosnian Serb military positions.
35 Years (1990)
Aug 02: Iraq launches invasion of Kuwait.
Aug 07: US troops go to Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion ('Operation Desert Shield').
Aug 09: Death of England & Manchester City football manager Joe Mercer aged 76.
Aug 10: US space probe 'Magellan' arrives at Venus after a 15 month journey.
Aug 19: American conductor Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert.
Aug 23: East and West Germany annouce reunification to be on October 3, 1990.
Aug 23: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein appears on TV alongside Western hostages.
Aug 24: Irish hostage Brian Keenan released after almost 5 years in captivity in Beirut.
Aug 27: Four defendants in Guiness trial found guilty of share-price fixing.
Aug 27: Four defendants in Guinness Trial found guilty of share-price fixing.
40 Years (1985)
Aug 12: Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Mount Ogura. 520 killed.
Aug 13: 3 year old Dublin boy becomes world's youngest heart & lung transplant patient.
Aug 22: Manchester Air Disaster. British Airtours Boeing 737 bursts into flames. 55 killed.
Aug 26: South African-born British athlete Zola Budd breaks world 5,000m record.
45 Years (1980)
Aug 02: Terrorist bombing at Bologna railway station kills 85.
Aug 14: Shipyard workers at Gdansk, Poland go on strike.
Aug 30: Polish dock workers win right to join independent trade union.
50 Years (1975)
Aug 01: Signing of Helsinki Accords in Finland by 35 nations to improve East-West relations.
Aug 09: Death of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
Aug 15: Military coup in Bangladesh. President killed & military government established.
Aug 27: Death of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974).
Aug 29: Death of Eamon de Valera, President of Ireland (1959-1973).
55 Years (1970)
Aug 20: England Football Captain Bobby Moore cleared of theft in Colombia.
60 Years (1965)
Aug 01: British Government bans all cigarette advertising on television.
Aug 06: UK release of The Beatles' record album 'Help' .
Aug 09: Singapore expelled from Malaysia and becomes independent country.
Aug 11: Start of 6 days' race riots in Watts, Los Angeles. 34 killed & over 1,000 injured.
Aug 12: Britain appoints Elizabeth Lane as 1st female High Court judge.
Aug 15: British group The Beatles play live to 55,000 fans in Shea Stadium, New York.
Aug 27: The only time British group The Beatles meet US king of rock 'n roll Elvis Presley.
65 Years (1960)
Aug 19: US U2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers jailed for 10 years in Russia for 'spying'.
70 Years (1955)
Aug 27: Publication of 1st edition of the 'Guinness Book of Records'.
75 Years (1950)
Aug 15: Princess Elizabeth gives birth to a daughter (Princess Anne) at Clarence House.
Aug 29: British troops join US forces in Korean War.
80 Years (1945)
Aug 06: WW2: US aircraft drops world's 1st atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
Aug 09: WW2: US aircraft drops world's 2nd atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
Aug 12: WW2: Soviet Union begins its occupation of North Korea.
Aug 14: WW2: Japan announces Unconditional Surrender to end war in the Pacific.
Aug 15: WW2: Allied troops liberate South Korea from the Japanese.
Aug 15: WW2: Korea divided along 38th parallel into North & South Korea.
Aug 15: WW2: VJ Day: Victory Over Japan.
Aug 30: WW2: Hong Kong liberated by British forces from the Japanese.
85 Years (1940)
Aug 08: Death of American engineer & car manufacturer Walter Chrysler.
Aug 20: WW2: British PM Winston Churchill speech praising 'the few' in Battle of Britain.
Aug 21: Russian Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky killed in Mexico City.
Aug 25: WW2: British RAF bomb German capital Berlin for the 1st time.
95 Years (1930)
Aug 05: Birth of US Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong (1st man to walk on the Moon).
100 Years (1925)
Aug 05: Founding of Welsh nationalist political party Plaid Cymru.
110 Years (1915)
Aug 29: Birth of Swedish film actress Ingrid Bergman ('Casablanca', 'Gaslight', 'Notorious').
Aug 29: Birth of Swedish film actress Ingrid Bergman ('Casablanca', 'Gaslight', 'Notorious').
160 Years (1865)
Aug 12: 1st recorded use of antiseptic dressings by British surgeon Joseph Lister.
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