2 August 2018
What’s on in August 2018
by AGGro
| 1. | WED | * LAMMAS (Quarter day) – celebration of the Grain Harvest
* Athletics: European Championships – Glasgow and Berlin. Inaugural event featuring rowing(2-5), cycling (2-12), gymnastics (2-12), aquatics (3-12), athletics (7-12), golf (7-12) and triathlon (9-11) * Cricket – England v India, first Test, Edgbaston until 05/08 * 75years ago: WW2- Operation Tidal Wave: Oil refineries at Ploiești, Romania bombed by U.S.AF * Amber Rudd (Home Secretary) is 55 and Barack Obama is 57 today |
| 2. | THURS | * Golf : Women’s British Open, Royal Lytham & St Annes – until 05/08
* 75years ago: WW2- 2,897 Romani are gassed when their camp at Auschwitz is liquidated. * 75years ago: WW2- John F. Kennedy’s PT-109 is rammed in two and sunk off the Solomon Islands. |
| 3. | FRI | * EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE -world’s largest arts festival, in 2017 it spanned 25 days and with 3,398 show in 300 venue – until 28/08
* National Eisteddfod of Wales, Cardiff Bay – 6000 Competitors perform to 150,000 visitors for eight days – until 11/08 Jack Straw is 72 |
| 4. | SAT | * Lee Mack (comedian) is 50 today |
| 5. | SUN | *100 years ago: WW1 – Czechoslovak People’s Army of Komuch takes Kazan from the Bolsheviks and captures the Imperial Russian gold reserve.
* Marine Le Pen (French politician) is 50 today |
| 6. | MON | * 75years ago: WW2- U.S. wins the Battle of Vella Gulf off Kolombangara in the Solomons.
* 75years ago: WW2- German troops start pouring in to take over Italy’s defences. |
| 7. | TUES | |
| 8. | WED | *100 years ago: WW1 Hundred Days Offensive, last offensive on Western Front – until 11/11/1918
*100 years ago: WW1 Battle of Amiens, first phase of the Hundred Days Offensive. – until 12/08/1918 * Nigel Mansell, (English 1992 F1 world champion) is 65 ,Princess Beatrice is 30 and Roger Federer is 37 today |
| 9. | THURS | * Cricket – England v India second Test, Lord’s – until 12/08
* Football – Premier League transfer window closes * Golf – US PGA Championship, Bellerive Country Club, Missouri * 100 years ago: WW1 Battle of Montdidier – until 12/08/1918 |
| 10. | FRI | * Princess Anne is 68 today |
| 11. | SAT | * Football – 2018-2019 Premier League season starts |
| 12. | SUN | * ‘The Glorious 12th’ – start of the Grouse shooting season |
| 13. | MON | *100 years ago: WW1 Battle of San Matteo – until 03/09/1918 |
| 14. | TUES | |
| 15. | WED | * VJ DAY- 72 years ago: Japanese Emperor surrendered thus ending WW2 – the signing of the document of surrender on US Missouri was later on 2nd Sept 1945.
*Football – UEFA Super Cup, Tallinn * 75years ago: WW2- Land Battle of Vella Lavella island in the Solomons begins.[ * Carol Thatcher and Sir Mark Thatcher are 65 today |
| 16. | THURS | * A LEVEL & AS LEVEL RESULTS DAY
* 75years ago: WW2- Allied bombers in the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission suffer heavy losses * 75years ago: WW2- Operation Crossbow- RAF bombs Peenemünde V-2 rocket facility. |
| 17. | FRI | * Robert De Niro (actor) is 75 today |
| 18. | SAT | * Catholic Feast of Assumption – Virgin Mary’s body & soul goes ascends to heaven.
*Cricket – England v India, third Test, Trent Bridge until 22/08 *Athletics – Birmingham Diamond League |
| 19. | SUN | |
| 20. | MON | * 60 years ago: Prague Spring of political liberalization ends -750,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 6,500 tanks with 800 planes invade Czechoslovakia. |
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| 23. | THURS | * GCSE RESULTS DAY
* Cricket – T20 Blast quarter-finals – until 26/08 * Canoeing – Sprint World Championships, Coimbra, Portugal – until 26/08 |
| 24. | FRI | * Pop music: Reading and Leeds Festivals – until 26/08
* CarFest South(Laverstoke Park Farm Hants: in aid of ‘Children in Need’ (founded by DJ Chris Evans) – until 26/08 |
| 25. | SAT | * Pop music: Notting Hill Carnival, London – until 27/08
* Rugby league – Challenge Cup final, Wembley * Triathlon – ITU World Series, Montreal – until 26/08 * Cycling – La Vuelta a Espana – until 16/09 * 75years ago: WW2- Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev liberates Kharkov, Ukraine The Battle of Kursk was the first successful major Soviet summer offensive of WW2. |
| 26. | SUN | * Formula 1 – Belgian Grand Prix, Spa-Francorchamps
* Motorcycling – British MotoGP, Silverstone * 100 years ago: WW1 Fourth Battle of Arras – until 03/09/1918 * 100 years ago: WW1 Battle of Baku, last Turkish offensive of the war. – until 14/09/1918 |
| 27. | MON | AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY
* Tennis – US Open, New York – until 09/09 * Cricket – Women’s Super League Finals Day, Hove |
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| 30. | THURS | * Football: Women’s World Cup qualifiers – Scotland v Switzerland
* Cricket: England v India, fourth Test, Southampton – until 03/09 * 100 years ago: WW1 Battle of Lioma. |
| 31. | FRI | * 21 years ago: Princess Diana (1961-1997) & Dodi Fayed killed in car crash.
* 100 years ago: WW1 Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin – until 03/09/1918 * 75years ago: WW2- Northwest African Air Forces bomb Pisa, italy * Football – Women’s World Cup qualifiers – Wales v England; Republic of Ireland v Northern Ireland |
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