September 8th – On This Day
1981 - Comedy series ‘Only Fools and Horses’ starring David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst, debuts on British television. The first episode was called “Big Brother”.
September 7th – On This Day
1940 - Germany began regular bombing of London (and other British cities) commonly known as ‘The Blitz’ beginning with the London Docks.
September 6th – On This Day
1997 - The funeral service for Diana, Princess of Wales, was held in Westminster Abbey, London. An estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide watched the service on television.
September 5th – On This Day
2013 - More than 130 vehicles were involved in a series of crashes in thick fog on the Sheppey crossing in Kent. The A249 bridge was closed for more than nine hours.
September 4th – On This Day
1739 - At Curry's Point in Whitley Bay (Tyne and Wear), Michael Curry was executed for the murder of the landlord at the Three Horseshoes Inn, Hartley. His body was afterwards hung in chains from a gibbit at this spot within sight of the scene of his crime.
September 3rd – On This Day
1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile at over 300 mph.
September 2nd – On This Day
1945 - World War II officially ended when Japanese officials, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, surrendered on behalf of their country.
September 1st – On This Day
1939 - At dawn on 1st September, Germany made a massive invasion of Poland and bombed Warsaw at 6am, beginning World War II in Europe.
August 31st – On This Day
1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed and their driver Henri Paul are killed when their car crashes in a Paris underpass while being pursued by paparazzi.