The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College in Melbourne, Australia. Australian rules football, often simply called “footy” or…
6 August 2015
A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.
5 August 2003
A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
2 August 1989
A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1 August 2004
A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
31 July 1970
Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
30 July 2006
The world’s longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42…