I often wonder what significant anniversaries are due at some point in the future as some of them might be of interest as triggers for blog posts or visits somewhere. However, it is often difficult to find out quickly what events have significant anniversaries - hence this section on the website.
By "significant anniversaries", I mean dates that are not, for example, the 73rd anniversary of something, but the 50th, 100th, 200th etc.
It should help to flag up interesting events.
Significant anniversaries during August 2020
| Anniversary | Details |
| 1st | Ruth Davidson resigns as leader of the Scottish Conservatives. (29th Aug 2019) |
| 1st | The UK's biggest ever fracking-related tremor is recorded, with a magnitude of 2.9 reported at a Cuadrilla site near Blackpool. (26th Aug 2019) |
| 1st | The UK experiences its hottest late August bank holiday weekend on record, with temperatures reaching 33.3C (91.9F) in west London. The record for August bank holiday Monday is also broken the following day. (25th Aug 2019) |
| 1st | The three remaining cooling towers at Didcot power station, a focal point of the Oxfordshire skyline for 50 years, are demolished. An electricity pole is damaged in the collapse, leaving at least 40,000 homes without power. (18th Aug 2019) |
| 1st | The Turkish Armed Forces Assistance Fund (known as Oyak) announces that it plans to take over British Steel by the end of the year. (16th Aug 2019) |
| 1st | Richard Braine is elected as leader of the UK Independence Party, succeeding Gerard Batten. (10th Aug 2019) |
| 1st | A major power blackout hits parts of England and Wales, affecting nearly a million people and causing widespread travel disruption. (9th Aug 2019) |
| 1st | The historic shipyard Harland and Wolff, which built the RMS Titanic and other well-known ships, ceases trading. (5th Aug 2019) |
| 5th | An RAF Hawker Hunter crashes into vehicles on the A27 near Shoreham in West Sussex during the Shoreham Airshow; eleven people are killed and fourteen injured. (22nd Aug 2015) |
| 5th | The London Borough of Lambeth becomes the first council in the United Kingdom to ban the use of laughing gas for recreational use. (17th Aug 2015) |
| 5th | Singer and television star Cilla Black, whose showbiz career spanned over fifty years, dies at her villa in Spain, at the age of 72 years. (1st Aug 2015) |
| 10th | Government plans to scrap free school milk for the under-fives across the UK are abandoned by David Cameron amid fears it would remind voters of the "Thatcher, Milk Snatcher" episode of Edward Heath's 1970-1974 government. (8th Aug 2010) |
| 10th | The President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, arrived in the United Kingdom for a five-day visit as the two countries disagreed about recent comments by David Cameron on "the export of terror". (3rd Aug 2010) |
| 10th | A scheme which allows parents to check if someone with access to their children is a sex offender, will be extended to cover the whole of England and Wales by spring 2011 after proving successful in four pilot areas. (1st Aug 2010) |
| 70th | Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there. (29th Aug 1950) |
| 75th | George Orwell's Animal Farm published. (17th Aug 1945) |
| 75th | In the House of Commons, Leader of the Opposition Winston Churchill speaks of an "Iron Curtain" descending across Europe. (16th Aug 1945) |
| 75th | V-J Day is celebrated in the UK. (15th Aug 1945) |
| 75th | The Giles family cartoon first appears in the Sunday Express. (5th Aug 1945) |
| 80th | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few". (20th Aug 1940) |
| 90th | The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. (29th Aug 1930) |
| 100th | London Underground's Central Line starts carrying passengers between Wood Lane and Ealing Broadway. (3rd Aug 1920) |
| 150th | Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London. (1st Aug 1870) |
| 250th | James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales. (21st Aug 1770) |
| 275th | Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan - the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45". (19th Aug 1745) |
| 400th | The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America. (5th Aug 1620) |
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