August 16th – Birthdays and Events
2004 - Flash floods devastated the north Cornwall coastal village of Boscastle after the area’s average August rainfall fell in just two hours.
August 15th – Birthdays and Events
1988 - Glasgow passport office started to issue the new EEC passports. It was the first office to be computerised to dispense the burgundy coloured documents, which replaced the traditional blue ones.
August 14th – Birthdays and Events
1971 - Kevin Keegan makes his League debut for Liverpool at Anfield, scoring after 12 minutes against Nottingham Forest.
August 13th – Birthdays and Events
1910 - The death of Florence Nightingale, English nurse who came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers.
August 12th – Birthdays and Events
1964 - A massive manhunt got under way across Britain after Charlie Wilson, one of the gang involved in the Great Train Robbery, broke out of the high-security Winson Green prison in Birmingham.
August 11th – Birthdays and Events
2016 - A Greenland shark is declared the oldest vertebrate animal in the world at 392 years by an international team of scientists.
August 10th – Birthdays and Events
1895 - The first Promenade Concert (The Proms) was held at the Queen’s Hall, London, conducted by Henry Wood.
August 9th – Birthdays and Events
1984 - Daley Thompson of Great Britain scores 8,797 points to win the Olympic decathlon in Los Angeles.
August 8th – Birthdays and Events
1940 - The German Luftwaffe began a series of daylight air raids on Britain and so began The Battle of Britain which would continue into the following October.