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August 14th

1902 - London: The Imperial Vaccination League is formed, with it's main aim being to eradicate Smallpox.

1904 - London: The National Gallery buys Titian's "Portrait of Aristotle" for £150,000.

1908 - London: One person is killed when a dirigible airship blows up at the Anglo-French Exhibition.

1915 - Britain: Nine people die and twenty-one are injured when an Irish mail train from Euston is derailed.

1916 - Eastern Front: The Russians break the new German line in East Galicia.

1920 - Antwerp: King Albert of Belgium opens the sixth Olympic Games.

1922 - London: Book publishers Cassell pay £90,000 for the UK and US rights to David Lloyd George's memoirs.

1933 - Austria: A newspaper reveals an alleged plan by the Nazi's to invade Austria.

1935 - Washington: Roosevelt signs the Social Security Bill, introducing welfare for the old, sick, and unemployed.

1937 - Shanghai: Hundreds of people are reported dead in a Japanese bombing raid on the city.

1948 - Britain: Australian cricket legend Don Bradman in his last test match is bowled out for a duck on the second ball by a googly from England's Eric Hollies at The Oval.

1958 - Ireland: 99 people are feared dead when a Dutch airliner goes missing off the Irish coast.

1960 - Portugal: Australian Driver Jack Brabham wins the Portuguese Grand Prix to become the F1 world champion.

1962 - Britain: Unhappy with Pete Best's role in The Beatles, Brian Epstein and the other three band members decide to sack him. He played his last gig the following night at The Cavern Club in Liverpool.

1965 - USA: Sonny and Cher begin a Three week run at No 1 on the US Singles Chart with "I Got You Babe."

1967 - Britain: Most pirate radio stations close in advance of the forthcoming Marine Broadcasting Act.

1970 - Britain: The Community Relation's Commission accuses Britain's beat policemen of being racially prejudiced.

1973 - Washington: The US bombing of Cambodia officially ends.

1978 - Bucharest: Hua Kuo-Feng arrives in Rumania on the first trip to Europe by a Chinese Communist Party Chief.

1980 - Poland: Workers at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk go on strike in support of a dismissed colleague.

1983 - France: French police seize a large consignment of arms bound for Iraq.

1985 - USA: Michael Jackson outbids Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono to secure the ATV Music Publishing catalogue. At $47.5 million he gains the rights to more than 250 songs written by Lennon and McCartney.

1989 - Birmingham: The West Midlands serious crimes squad is disbanded after allegations of police corruption.

1990 - Bridport: Seven year-old Gemma Lawrence, who was snatched from her parents holiday caravan, is found safe and well.

1993 - Britain: Freddie Mercury gets his first solo UK No.1 single with "Living On My Own."

1997 - Moscow: Russian cosmonauts Vasili Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin return to Earth after 6 months on the Mir space station.

2002 - USA: Dave Williams, lead singer of the US heavy rock band Drowning Pool, is found dead on the band's tour bus during Ozzy Osbourne's Ozzfest tour in Manassas Virginia.

2010 - USA: A rally takes place outside Google's offices in California against a proposal to change online data treatment.

1958, Elvis Presley's mother Gladys died. At her funeral two days later Presley was so overcome with grief he was unable to stand and had to be supported. Over 500 police were at the service to keep the gigantic crowd at bay.

1962, Unhappy with drummer Pete Best's role in The Beatles Brian Epstein and the other three members decided to sack him. Best played his last gig the following night at The Cavern, Liverpool. Ringo Starr who was nearing the end of a three-month engagement with Rory Storm & the Hurricanes at a Butlin's holiday camp received a telephone call from John Lennon, asking him to join The Beatles. Ringo gave Rory Storm three days notice and on August 18, appeared as a member of The Beatles for the first time.

1964, US singer Johnny Burnette was killed in a boating accident on Clear Lake California, aged 30. His unlit boat was struck by an unaware cabin cruiser, the impact threw him off the boat and he drowned. Burnette scored the 1961 US No.8 & UK No.3 single 'Your Sixteen'.

1965, Sonny & Cher started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Got You Babe'. Sonny Bono is said to have been inspired to write the song to capitalize on the popularity of the term "babe," as heard in Bob Dylan's 'It Ain't Me Babe'.

1965, The Beatles taped an appearance for CBS-TV's The Ed Sullivan Show at Studio 50, New York City. They performed ‘I Feel Fine’, ‘I'm Down’, ‘Act Naturally’, ‘Ticket to Ride’, ‘Yesterday’, and ‘Help!’ Also today, The Beatles fifth album 'Help!' started a nine-week run at No.1 on the UK charts.

1966, Little Anthony & The Imperials, (Steve Van Zandt’s band), The Shadows and The Castiles (with Bruce Springsteen on vocals) all appeared at the Surf ‘n See Club in Seabright New Jersey.

1966, The Beatles appeared at Cleaveland stadium, Ohio, the first concert to be held at the stadium. The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd and Aerosmith also appeared here.

1967, All UK offshore pirate radio stations were closed down when the marine broadcasting act came into force. Radio Caroline continued to broadcast until March 68.

1968, 'Fire' by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown was at No.1 on the UK singles chart. As part of his act Brown would perform the song on stage with his hat set alight!

1970, Stephen Stills was arrested on suspected drugs charges while staying at a San Diego Hotel after being found crawling along a corridor in an incoherent state. Still's was later freed on bail.

1970, The first day of the three day UK Yorkshire Folk, Blues & Jazz Festival at Krumlin, Yorkshire took place featuring Atomic Rooster, Pink Floyd, (who didn't appear after being fog bound at Paris Airport), The Kinks, Elton John, Mungo Jerry, Yes, Alan Price, Georgie Fame, Juicy Lucy, Pretty Things and The Groundhogs. Weekend tickets, £3.

1976, Funded by a £400 loan, 'So It Goes' by Nick Lowe became the first record released on Stiff Records. The label's marketing and advertising was often provocative and witty billing itself as "The World's Most Flexible Record Label". Other slogans were "We came. We saw. We left", and "If It Ain't Stiff, It Ain't Worth a Fuck".

1985, Michael Jackson won a bid over Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney to secure the ATV Music Publishing catalogue. At $47.5m he gained the rights to more than 250 songs written by Lennon and McCartney. McCartney had been negotiating with Yoko Ono, who had decided to withdraw her side of the deal because of 'astrological' reasons.

1988, Lead singer, poet and frontman of Hawkwind Robert Calvert died of a heart attack. He was a member of Hawkwind from 1972-1979 during which time he co-wrote their hit single 'Silver Machine' and directed their Space Ritual Tour.

1988, Guitarist Roy Buchanan died after hanging himself by his own shirt in Fairfax County Jail, Virginia after being arrested for drunkenness. Buchanan released over 15 solo albums; Jeff Beck dedicated the song 'Cause We've Ended As Lovers' to Buchanan in 1975 on his Blow by Blow album.

1992, Tony Williams lead singer with The Platters died in his sleep of emphysema aged 64. He sang most of the group's hits up until 1961 when he was replaced by Sonny Turner. Had the 1959 UK & US No.1 single 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes'.

1993, Freddie Mercury had his first solo UK No.1 single with 'Living On My Own'. The song had been a minor hit in 1985 when released from his solo album Mr. Bad Guy, this remixed version was reissued.

1995, Foo Fighters made their network television debut on The Late Show with David Letterman when they performed their new single 'This Is A Call'.

1999, Ronan Keating had the UK No.1 single with 'When You Say Nothing At All'. The debut solo single from the Boyzone lead singer. The song was from the film Notting Hill.

2001, A pizza-stained piece of paper signed by three of the four Beatles sold for $48,000 (£17,441) to an anonymous collector at an auction in Melbourne. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison all signed the paper during their 1964 tour of Australia. Drummer Ringo Starr had laryngitis and was not on the tour. A fan managed to get the autographs while the band was staying in a hotel in Adelaide.

2002, Dave Williams lead singer of US heavy rock band Drowning Pool was found dead on the band's tour bus during Ozzy Osbournes Ozzfest tour in Manassas, Virginia. The autopsy concluded that he suffered from a form of heart disease. The bands debut album, Sinner, had sold over 1 million copies in the US since its release in June 2001.

2003, One True Voice the boyband formed from the ITV1 pop talent show Popstars: The Rivals split up. The group were formed alongside Girls Aloud after winning their places in the Popstars: the Rivals series. One True Voice were later voted Britain's worst group in a poll just a day after their tour was cancelled due to poor ticket sales.

2005, James Blunt topped both the UK singles chart (with 'You're Beautiful'), and album charts ('Back to Bedlam'), for a fifth week in a row, a feat last achieved by Celine Dion. Her single ‘Think Twice’ and album ‘Colour Of My Love’ topped both charts simultaneously for five weeks in 1995.

2005, Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty was forced to endure an all-body strip search at Gardermoen Airport in Norway after being held by customs officers for three hours while they ensured he was carrying no drugs.

2005, Faith Hill was at No.1 on the US chart with 'Fireflies', Hill's third consecutive album to debut at number 1 on both the country and Billboard album charts.

2006, Boy George was seen sweeping streets in New York as part of a five-day community service sentence. The former Culture Club frontman was moved into a fenced-off area after only 30 minutes after he was mobbed by the media. The 45-year-old singer was found guilty of wasting police time earlier this year and was threatened with jail if he failed to complete the court-imposed sentence.

2008, Lita Roza died in Liverpool, England. She had the 1953 No.1 hit with her version on the of Patti Page hit ‘How Much Is That Doggie In The Window’’ Roza was the first British female singer to top the UK singles charts.

2009, George Michael was arrested and held on suspicion of driving under the influence of drink or drugs after his Land Rover was in collision with a lorry on the A34 in Berkshire.
The singer was later released without charge.

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August 15th

1902 - France: 15,000 people demonstrate against the planned closure of convent schools in Brittany.

1903 - New York: Joseph Pulitzer gives $2 million to the Columbia University to start a school of journalism.

1906 - Warsaw: 27 people are killed in widespread revolutionary unrest against Russian rule.

1918 - Moscow: The US severs relations with Russia.

1923 - USA: Oklahoma is put under martial law in a bid to supress the Ku Klux Klan.

1926 - New York: Screen heart throb Rudolph Valentino undergoes emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix.

1935 - Berlin: On the orders of Hitler, the Nazi Swastika becomes the German national flag.

1938 - Britain: The Queen Mary sets a record for the east-bound Atlantic crossing of three days, twenty hours.

1942 - Vichy: 5,000 Jews are arrested in unoccupied France.

1943 - Sicily: The Allies launch an assault on Messina.

1947 - Britain: 111 miners are trapped after a pit blast at Whitehaven on the Solway Firth.

1951 - Britain: Dartmoor is designated a National Park.

1955 - Britain: Five armed IRA men are arrested trying to steal arms from an army barracks at Arborfield in Berkshire.

1961 - London: Dr Richard Beeching is appointed head of British Railways.

1962 - Jakarta: The Dutch government agrees to cede western New Guinea to Indonesia.

1965 - New York: 55,000 fans attend the Beatles concert at Shea Stadium.

1967 - Britain: The Marine Broadcasting Act comes into force banning pirate radio stations.

1970 - South Vietnam: A US marine is jailed for five years for murdering 15 Vietnamese.

1971 - Britain: Harvey Smith wins the British Showjumping Derby, but is disqualified for making a two-fingered gesture.

1977 - Birmingham: An anti-National Front march turns into a riot after police clash with demonstrators.

1979 - USSR: 150 people are killed after two Aeroflot airliners collide over the Ukraine.

1980 - Atlantic: The Wreck of the "Titanic" is reportedly located 12,000 feet beneath the seas surface.

1985 - Atlantic: The Virgin Atlantic Challenger sinks two hours short of a record Atlantic crossing.

1988 - Seoul: Riot police stop students from marching to meet North Korean colleagues on the eve of the Olympics.

1990 - South Africa: At least 150 people are killed in township battles between Zulu and Xhosa tribesmen.

1993 - Budapest: British F1 driver Damon Hill claims his first F1 victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix.

2002 - Scotland: The remote village of Durness unveils a memorial to John Lennon, consisting of three stones with the lyrics to "In My Life" inscribed on them. He had spent his holidays there as a child.

2008 - Beijing: American swimmer Michael Phelps wins his sixth gold medal of the Olympics in the 200 metres individual medley, setting a new world record.

On this day, 15 August, Napoleon was born in 1769. Also Japan surrenders to end the second world war in 1945.

August 16th

1907 - London: Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly" is performed in English for the first time at the Lyric Theatre.

1919 - Ireland: Sinn Fein supporters are involved in serious rioting throughout the island.

1920 - Poland: US warships are sent to Danzig as a precautionary measure, as Russian troops close in on Warsaw.

1925 - USA: Charlie Chaplin's comedy classic "The Gold Rush" opens across the country.

1928 - USSR: Compulsory military service is introduced.

1935 - Paris: Haile Selassie offers new concessions to Italy as diplomatic moves to halt an Italian invasion continue.

1939 - London: The Registrar General announces everyone will have an identity card and number in the event of war breaking out.

1943 - Poland: An uprising breaks out in the Jewish ghetto in the city of Bialystock.

1949 - Britain: The sugar refiners Tate and Lyle announce all-out war against nationalisation of their industry, after angrily rejecting a Ministry of Food request for removal of anti-nationalisation slogans from its sugar cartons.

1952 - Britain: Lynmouth in Devon is hit by a disastrous flood, with 36 people feared dead and thousands made homeless after rivers burst their banks.

1956 - London: The Suez crisis conference opens.

1960 - Cyprus: The country becomes a republic after British rule ends.

1964 - France: 13 children are killed when their coach crashes over a ravine in St Bernard Pass.

1973 - Moscow: Soviets denounce children's TV shoe "Sesame Street" as "Imperialistic."

1974 - Libya: Colonel Gaddafi arrests 500 Egyptian troops after Cairo refuses to return 40 planes.

1983 - Washington: The US admits Klaus Barbie was protected by the US army after the war.

1984 - Los Angeles: John De Lorean is acquitted of plotting to distribute cocaine worth £18 million.

1985 - South Africa: Bishop Desmond Tutu announces that the chances of peaceful change in South Africa are "Virtually Nil."

1989 - Beirut: A cease-fire begins between the Lebanese Army and the Syrians along with their Moslem militia allies.

1991 - London: The Bank of England backs the government's claims that the worst of the recession is over.

1995 - Massachusetts: A long term study shows that the drug AZT does not help prevent the development of full-blown AIDS.

2004 - Britain: After 60mm (24") of rain in two hours, severe flash flooding at Boscastle in Cornwall results in buildings, roads and over 50 cars being swept away.

2008 - Beijing: British swimmer Rebecca Adlington wins the 800 metres freestyle gold medal, breaking the 19 year world record of Janet Evans.

1977: Rock and roll 'king' Presley dies
Elvis Presley, whose singing and style revolutionized popular music in the 1950s, has died.
Presley, 42, was discovered slumped in a bathroom at his mansion in Memphis, Tennessee on Tuesday.

He was rushed to the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis but was pronounced dead on arrival.

The Tennessee state pathologist, Dr. Jerry Francisco, said a post mortem examination of the singer's body had revealed he died of cardiac arrhythmia - a form of heart attack.

"The precise cause has not yet been determined for the cardiac arrhythmia," Dr Francisco said.

"It may take several days to several weeks to determine that specific cause and in some cases it never is determined."

The three-hour examination uncovered no sign of any other diseases or any drug abuse, Dr Francisco added.

Declining health

Presley was divorced from his wife Priscilla in 1973 but it was rumoured that he had recently become engaged to Ginger Alden, 20.

She was reportedly spotted wearing a $50,000 (£20,315) diamond engagement ring from Presley.

Ms Alden and other members of his entourage were at Graceland when he collapsed.

There had been indications of Elvis Presley's declining health for some time.

Earlier this year the singer had cancelled several performances in Louisiana and returned to Memphis suffering what his doctors termed "exhaustion".

No arrangements have been announced yet for his funeral which is scheduled for Friday.


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Elvis in concert
The singer was found collapsed at his home


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In Context
Thousands gathered to file past Elvis Presley's body which lay in state at his mansion, Graceland, the day after his death.
Although it was officially stated that he died of heart failure there has always been speculation that an overdose of cocaine and barbiturates also played a part.

Since his divorce from Priscilla in 1973 he had relied heavily on prescription drugs and was known to be a junk-food addict, gaining a considerable amount of weight.

During his lifetime he sold over 300 million albums and made 33 films.

His death has been lucrative for the "Elvis industry".

In 2001 he came top in US magazine Forbes' poll of "Richest Deceased Celebrities".

It put Elvis estate's earnings in 2000 at $35m (£23m) - $15m (£10m) of it from Graceland admission fees.

Richest Dead Celebrities
1 Elvis Presley: $35 million
2 Charles Schulz: $20 million
3 John Lennon: $20 million
4 Theodor Geisel: $17 million
5 Jimi Hendrix: $10 million /CPS:FACT>
6 Bob Marley: $10 million
7 Andy Warhol: $8 million
8 J.R.R. Tolkien: $7 million
9 Frank Sinatra $6 million
10 Jerry Garcia : $5 million
Source: Forbes magazine 2001



Stories From 16 Aug
1952: Flood devastates Devon village
2004: Dozens stranded in Cornish floods
1977: Rock and roll 'king' Presley dies
1984: DeLorean cleared of drugs charges
2003: 'War criminal' Idi Amin dies
2001: Diana butler charged with theft


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(16-08-2013 12:40 )bombshell Wrote: [ -> ]1977: Rock and roll 'king' Presley dies
Elvis Presley, whose singing and style revolutionized popular music in the 1950s, has died.
Presley, 42, was discovered slumped in a bathroom at his mansion in Memphis, Tennessee on Tuesday.

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His death has been lucrative for the "Elvis industry".
In 2001 he came top in US magazine Forbes' poll of "Richest Deceased Celebrities".
It put Elvis estate's earnings in 2000 at $35m (£23m) - $15m (£10m) of it from Graceland admission fees.

Richest Dead Celebrities
1 Elvis Presley: $35 million
2 Charles Schulz: $20 million
3 John Lennon: $20 million
4 Theodor Geisel: $17 million
5 Jimi Hendrix: $10 million /CPS:FACT>
6 Bob Marley: $10 million
7 Andy Warhol: $8 million
8 J.R.R. Tolkien: $7 million
9 Frank Sinatra $6 million
10 Jerry Garcia : $5 million
Source: Forbes magazine 2001

Michael Jackson tops the list now.

August 17th

1900 - USA: Nikolai Tesla patents a new method of electrical insulation.

1918 - Japan: The government requisitions all rice stocks in a bid to stamp down on food rioting.

1925 - Vienna: Anti-Semitic rioting mars the opening of a Zionist conference.

1931 - Britain: 14 people are killed as gales and flood sweep the country.

1937 - Australia: Protests take place against floods of immigrants entering the country from southern Europe.

1939 - Germany: Hitler closes the border with Poland in Upper Silesia.

1941 - USSR: German troops occupy the Soviet Naval base of Nikoleav on the Black Sea.

1943 - Baltic Sea: RAF bombers attack a top-secret Nazi weapons base on Peenemunde Island, believed to be a centre for the production of flying bombs.

1945 - Britain: The rate in which servicemen are demobilised is raised from 115,000 to 171,000 a month.

1953 - Budapest: The Hungarian government frees Briton Edgar Sanders, who was jailed in 1949 for a sentence of 13 years for spying.

1954 - Washington: President Eisenhower commits the US 7th fleet to prevent China invading Formosa.

1957 - Northern Ireland: 20 people are arrested after a booby-trap bomb kills a police officer.

1959 - Britain: Sodium road lighting is tested for the first time.

1960 - Germany: The Beatles arrive in Hamburg to take up a string of gigs at the Indra Club and the Kaiserkeller Club where they make 106 appearances.

1967 - Britain: Coventry City FC chairman Jimmy Hill announces he is quitting to pursue a career in television.

1969 - Cape Town: Dr Philip Blaiberg dies a record 19 months 15 days after receiving a heart transplant.

1972 - Holland: The World Court rules Iceland should not extend her exclusive fishing zone to 50 miles.

1977 - Israel: The Israeli's set up three new settlements on the occupied West Bank.

1985 - Beirut: A car bomb explodes in the city killing 50 people and injuring 120.

1987 - West Berlin: Rudolf Hess is found dead in in Spandau after apparently killing himself with electrical flex.

1988 - Pakistan: The military ruler President Zia ul-Haq is killed when his plane explodes in mid-air.

1994 - Lesotho: Five people are killed in riots after King Letsie III dissolves the country's first democratically elected government in 23 years.

1995 - Paris: An Air France Concorde takes 1 hour 22 minutes off its own round-the-world speed record, completing the journey in 31 hours 27 minutes.

1998 - Washington: President Bill Clinton testifies before a criminal grand jury about the Monica Lewinsky case. Later he admits in a televised speech that he had a relationship with Monica Lewinsky that was "not appropriate."

2003 - Iceland: Iceland resumes whaling, fourteen years after it stopped commercial whaling in 1989.

2010 - Afghanistan: Archaeologist's discover the remains of a Buddhist site south of the capital, Kabul.

1955, Elvis Presley released his first number 1 hit, 'I Forgot to Remember to Forget / Mystery Train'. It hit the top of the country charts several months later and stayed there for 5 weeks.

1960, The Beatles began their first Hamburg engagement at the Indra Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, West Germany, playing the first of 48 nights at the Club. The owner, Bruno Koschmider, asked The Beatles to "Mach Shau", or really put on a show, which led to the band screaming, shouting, and leaping about the stage and sometimes playing lying on the floor. John Lennon once appeared wearing only his underwear and on another occasion, wearing a toilet seat around his neck. The Beatles lodged in a single room behind the screen of a nearby movie house. 

1963, Rory Storm And The Hurricanes, Gus Travis And The Raincoats and Johnny Sandon And The Remo 4 all appeared at the Royal Lido, Prestatyn, Wales, in a Merseybeat package show. Tickets 5 shillings, ($0.70).

1964, Glasgow council in Scotland announced that all boys and men with Beatle styled haircuts would have to wear bathing caps after a committee was told that hair from 'Beatle-cuts' was clogging the pools filters.

1965, The Byrds were forced to cancel a concert during their UK tour at The Guildhall, Portsmouth when only 250 of the 4,000 tickets had been sold.1966, During a North American tour The Beatles played two shows at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada. The attendance for each show was 18,000.

1968, The Doors started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Waiting For The Sun'. The group's third album spawned their second US No.1 single, 'Hello, I Love You'.

1968, The Rascals (formally the Young Rascals), started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'People Got To Be Free'. The group had thirteen US top 40 hits.

1969, The final day of the three day Woodstock festival took place at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York. Acts who appeared included Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, Sha Na Na, Joe Cocker, Country Joe and the Fish, The Band, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter and Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Over 186,000 tickets had been sold but on the first day the flimsy fences and ticket barriers had come down. Organisers announced the concert would be a free event, prompting thousands more to head for the concert. There were two deaths - a teenager was killed by a tractor as he lay in his sleeping bag and another died from a drugs overdose.

 1973, Former Temptations singer Paul Williams was found dead in his car, after shooting himself. He owed $80000 in taxes and his celebrity boutique business had failed.

1974, Eric Clapton started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with '461 Ocean Boulevard', a No.3 hit in the UK. The house featured on the album cover is 461 Ocean Boulevard in the town of Golden Beach, Florida near Miami where Clapton lived while making the album.

1979, The New York Post reported that Anita Pallenberg (the wife of Keith Richards) was linked to a witches coven in South Salem, New York where Richards owned a house. A policeman claimed he was attacked by a flock of black-hooded, caped people and a local youth claimed he had been invited by Pallenburg to take part in ‘pot smoking sex orgies’. Locals also claimed they found ‘ritualistic stakes’ and small animals that had been ‘sacrificed’ near the house.

1987, Session drummer Gary Chester died of cancer. He had been a member of The Coasters and played on many major hits for other acts including: 'Brown Eyed Girl' 'Under The Boardwalk' 'Walk On By', 'It's My Party.'

1991, Nirvana shot the video for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' at GMT Studios in Culver City, California, costing less than $50,000 to make, the shoot features real Nirvana fans as the audience. The video won Nirvana the Best New Artist and Best Alternative Group awards at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, and in 2000 the Guinness World Records named 'Teen Spirit' the Most Played Video on MTV Europe. 1995, Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre after an apparent suicide attempt. Police had found him at his Los Angeles home with a two-inch laceration on his wrist. 

1999, Former Bay City Rollers drummer Derek Longmuir appeared at the Edinburgh Sheriff Court accused of child porn and drugs offences. Longmuir, 48, denied the charges. He was later sentenced to 300 hours community service.

 1999, Led Zeppelin topped a chart of Britain's most bootlegged musicians, compiled by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), after identifying 384 bootleg titles featuring Led Zeppelin performances. The bootleg chart was complied from the BPI's archive of some 10,000 recordings seized over the past 25 years. The Beatles, came in second with 320 entries, other acts listed included The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd. 

2002, Darius was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Colourblind'. The third "Pop Idol" finalist to get a number one. He'd originally lost out on "Popstars", failing to get a place in the group Hear'Say, and then came third in "Pop Idol".2002, Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland held the No.1 position on the US singles chart with 'Dilemma'. The UK No.1 album was 'By The Way' by The Red Hot Chili Peppers and the US No.1 album was 'The Rising' by Bruce Springsteen.

2003, Eva Cassidy started a two week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'American Tune' the singers third UK No.1 album. 

2004, A report showed how touts were now using eBay to sell tickets for sold-out concerts. It said the touts were not breaking the law by using auction sites on the internet, it showed tickets for Madonna's Wembley gig worth £150 were for sale at £350 and a pair of tickets to see The White Stripes worth £90 were currently on eBay for £130.

 2007, High School Musical 2 premiered on the US Disney Channel and Family Channel. Watched by a total of 17.2 million viewers in the United States, making it the highest rated basic cable broadcast in US history.

2008, Jackson Browne was suing US Republican presidential candidate John McCain for using one of his songs without permission. Browne claimed the use of his song Running on Empty in an advert was an infringement of copyright and would lead people to conclude he endorses McCain. Browne was seeking more than $75,000 (£40,000) in damages.2008, Irish band The Script started a two week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with their self-titled debut album.

2009, An arrest warrant was issued for singer Bobby Brown after he failed to appear at a court hearing involving child maintenance payments. Judge Christina Harms ordered Mr Brown, to be arrested next time he was in the state of Massachusetts. The singer had allegedly fallen $45,000 (£27,500) behind in payments for two teenage children he had with former girlfriend Kim Ward.2009, A thief in New Zealand took the unusual step of leaving his contact details at the site of his crime. The man reserved a copy of Pink Floyd's The Wall at a record shop in Christchurch, leaving his name and phone number, before robbing the till. He was a regular customer at the shop and already had several records on order.

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1877 – Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, the larger of Mars' two moons, six days after discovering Deimos, the other one.

1948 – Australia completed a 4–0 Ashes series win, earning them the nickname of "The Invincibles" for being the first Test cricket match side to play an entire tour of England without losing a match.

1966 - August 18: Long Tan Day in Australia (nothing to do with sun bathing )
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