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August 2 is the 214th day of the year (215th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 151 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 338 BC ...
2 August – Edwin Richfield, actor (born 1921) 5 August – Ivan Blatný, poet (born 1919, Czechoslovakia) 6 August – Pat Wall, politician (born 1933) 9 August – Joe Mercer, footballer and manager (born 1914) 12 August Dorothy Mackaill, actress (born 1903) Roy Williamson, songwriter (born 1936)
1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
13 August – John Sommerfield, writer and left-wing activist (born 1908) 17 August – Lorna Hill, children's author (born 1902) 18 August – David Gale, actor (born 1936) 19 August – Xan Fielding, author, journalist and traveller (born 1918) 23 August – Innes Lloyd, television producer (born 1925) 26 August – John Petts, artist (born 1914)
1–2 July – July 1968 England and Wales dust fall storms. 4 July – Alec Rose returns to Southsea from a 354-day single-handed round-the-world trip for which he receives a knighthood the following day. [29] 10 July – Floods in South West England. [30] 17 July – The Beatles animated film Yellow Submarine is premiered in London. [18]
1 March – Labour MP Tony Benn is returned to parliament after winning the Chesterfield by-election, having lost his previous seat at the general election last year.; 2 March – Just five months after becoming Labour Party leader, Neil Kinnock's ambition of becoming Prime Minister at the next election (due to be held by June 1988) are given a boost when Labour come top of a MORI poll with 41 ...
11 August – traffic admitted onto the new Waterloo Bridge across the River Thames in London. [4] 19 August – World War II: British and Canadian troops conduct the Dieppe Raid. [4] 25 August – Dunbeath air crash: Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of George VI, is among 14 killed in a military air crash near Caithness, Scotland.
7 August Lady Clare Annesley, socialist activist (born 1893) Henry Everard, railway engineer (born 1897) Kathleen Fidler, children's author (born 1899) 9 August – Audrey Jeans, singer and comedienne (car accident) (born 1929) 10 August – Gareth Evans, philosopher (born 1946) 12 August – Leopold Spinner, composer (born 1906 in Austria-Hungary)