July 29th in History
1588: British general Drake defeats the Spanish Armada off the coast of Plymouth
1975: Military staged coup in Nigeria


July 29th birthdays
1883: Benito Mussolini, Italian leader
1905: Dag Hammarskjold, Former UN Secretary-general

July 30th in History
1935: The first ever 'Penguin' paperback books goes on sale
1984: First flight of space shuttle 'Discovery'


July 30th birthdays
1818: Emily Bronte, English novelist
1863: Henry Ford, American car manufacturer
1898: Henry Moore, English sculptor
1940: Sir Clive Sinclair, British Inventor
1947: Arnold Schwarzenegger, American actor

July 31st in History
1954: K2 summit reached for the first time by an Italian team


July 31st birthdays
1944: Geraldine Chaplin, Actress and daughter of Charlie

August 1st in History
1498: Christopher Columbus reaches the mainland of North America
1774: Joseph Priestley isolates oxygen for the first time
1793: The metric unit of mass, the kilogram, is introduced in France
1798: The English navy, under Nelson, defeats the French at the Battle of the Nile
1914: Germany declares war on the Soviet Union, Italy declares itself neutral.
1975: Helsinki Agreement, on human rights, signed by over 35 nations
1976: Trinidad and Tobago independence


August 1st birthdays
1933: Dom Deluise, American film actor
1936: Yves Saint-Laurent, Designer

August 2nd in History
1964: US destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin
1990: Iraq invades Kuwait


August 2nd birthdays
1924: James Baldwin, American writer
1932: Peter O'Toole, British actor

August 3rd in History
1777: La Scala Opera House in Milan opening
1858: Source of the Nile river, Lake Victoria, discovered
1907: Royal decree in Portugal makes Sunday a day of rest
1914: First ship passing through the new Panama Canal


August 3rd birthdays
1801: Joseph Paxton, English architect
1920: PD James, British Author
1926: Tony Bennett, American singer
1940: Martin Sheen, American actor

August 4th in History
1914: Britain declares war on Germany
1971: The US launches first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft
1983: Italy elects first socialist prime minister since 1946


August 4th birthdays
1792: Percy Shelley, English poet
1900: Queen Elizabeth, British Queen Mother

August 5th in History
1905: Norway cuts diplomatic ties with Sweden
1914: USA declares itself neutral as Germany declares war on the Soviet Union
1962: Nelson Mandella arrested and then imprisoned
1963: Nuclear Test Ban Agreement signed, allowing nuclear weapon to only be tested underground


August 5th birthdays
1906: John Huston, American film director
1930: Neil Armstrong, First man on the Moon

August 6th in History
1806: Holy Roman empire officially ends
1915: During World War I, Warsaw falls into German hands
1945: Atomic bomb dropped Hiroshima
1962: Jamaica gains independent from Britain


August 6th birthdays
1809: Alfred Tennyson, English poet
1917: Robert Mitchum, American actor

August 7th in History
1858: Ottawa chosen as the capital of Canada by British Queen Victoria
1942: American marines begin assault on Guadalcanal
1960: The Ivory Coast gains independence from France


August 7th birthdays
1876: Mata Hari, Dutch born dancer and spy
1903: Louis Leakey, British archaeologist