August 2023: Events and Anniversaries Preview
1 August 2023
Welcome to your akg-images August preview, full of content ideas for the coming months, with albums of supporting images.
August is here with World Breastfeeding Week, International Beer Day, and, the day the internet was made for - International Cat Day. We would like to remind you that we will be closed for the bank holiday on 28th August.
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August 2023
2 August: Shimon Peres - 100th birthday anniversary
5 August: Karl Hagemeister - 90th anniversary of his death
10 August: Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida - 100th anniversary of his death
15 August: Construction begins on Cologne Cathedral - 775th anniversary
16 August: Madonna - 65th birthday
23 August: Battle of Kursk ends - 80th anniversary
26 August: Lee De Forest - 150th birthday anniversary
29 August: Richard Attenborough - 100th birthday anniversary
30 August: Charles Bronson - 20th anniversary of his death
30 August: Jacques Louis David - 275th birthday anniversary
September 2023
September: Panic of 1873 - 150 years
2 September: J.R.R. Tolkien - 50th anniversary of his death
4 September: Oskar Schlemmer - 135th birthday anniversary
12 September: Jesse Owens - 110th birthday anniversary
12 September: Ben Shahn - 125th birthday anniversary
13 September: Claudette Colbert - 120th birthday anniversary
19 September: Jeremy Irons - 75th birthday
20 September: Theodor Fontane - 125th anniversary of his death
23 September: Pablo Neruda - 50th anniversary of his death
23 September: Romy Schneider - 85th birthday anniversary
26 September: Olivia Newton-John - 75th birthday anniversary
28 September: Alexandre Cabanel - 200th birthday anniversary
29 September: Wystan Hugh Auden - 50th anniversary of his death
October 2023
4 October: Charlton Heston - 100th birthday anniversary
5 October: Crimean War began - 170th anniversary
10 October: Edith Piaf - 60th anniversary of her death
11 October: Jean Cocteau - 60th anniversary of his death
16 October: The Walt Disney Company is founded - 100th anniversary
16 October: Luca Signorelli - 500th anniversary of his death
19 October: Camille Claudel - 80th anniversary of her death
19 October: Sir Godfrey Kneller - 300th anniversary of his death
20 October: Sydney Opera House was founded - 50th anniversary
22 October: Catherine Deneuve - 80th birthday
23 November: Thanksgiving USA
24 October: Ernst Barlach - 85th anniversary of his death
27 October: Roy Lichtenstein - 100th birthday anniversary
29 October: Turkey becomes a republic - 100th anniversary. See also Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
30 October: Orson Welles's radio broadcast of H.G Wells's War of the Worlds - 85th anniversary
31 October: River Phoenix - 30th anniversary of his death
31 October: Federico Fellini - 30th anniversary of his death
November 2023
5 November: Guy Fawkes Day UK
5 November: Vivian Leigh - 110th birthday anniversary
7 November: Albert Camus - 110th birthday anniversary
8 November: Beer Hall Putsch/Munich Putsch - 100th anniversary
9 November: Kristallnacht / November Pogroms - 85th anniversary
10 November: Miriam Makeba - 15th anniversary of her death
11 November: Paul Signac - 160th birthday anniversary
11 November: Remembrance Day
14 November: King Charles III - 75th birthday
17 November: Lauren Hutton - 80th birthday
21 November: René Magritte - 125th birthday anniversary
22 November: John Fitzgerald Kennedy - 60th anniversary of his death
28 November: Tehran conference - 80th anniversary
30 November - 12 December: COP28 climate conference
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