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1              World Scout Day   

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3      Edinburgh Military Tatoo begins

4       Queen Mother celebrates 100th birthday   2000

5                    Marilyn Marilyn Monroe found dead 1962

6             Summer Bank Holiday                  Hiroshima 1945

7         Jack the Ripper commits his first murder 1888

8        Great Train Robbery   1963

9     Nagasaki  1945

11           Last solar total eclipse of the century 1999

12 International Youth Day

13              National Allotment Week begins

14 Independence Day Pakistan

15           VJ Day 1945

16               Elvis Elvis Presley dies    1977

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18 Woodstock Festival ends 1969

19            Coco Channel born         1883

20            Viking I launched   1975

21    Captain Cook claims Australia for Britain      1770

22    Inter-national Beatles Week

23    Slavery outlawed in British Empire 1833

24         Mt Vesuvius erupts      AD79

26       Julius Caesar invades Britain 55BC

27 Summer Bank Holiday

28       Martin Luther King makes "I have a dream" speech    1963

29       Last scheduled Beatles concert     1966

30       Mary Shelley born        1797

31               Princess Diana dies in car crash       1997