Historical Anniversaries for August 2010

• The following list provides important anniversaries that could be commemorated in 2010.
• It can be used by teachers preparing assemblies, extension tasks and one-off lessons.
• I am limiting the list to multiples of 50 years (1960 (50 years ago today), 1910 (100 years ago today), 1860 (150 years ago today) etc).
• This is more meaningful than the “on this day in history” format (there is a 1/365 chance that any event from the entire history of civilisation has a 1/365 chance it happened “today”!)
• If you’d like to add to this list, please contact me with your suggestion or send a tweet using the hashtag #history2010.

6th August 1660 (350 years ago today) Velazquez died
10th August 1810 (200 years ago today) Cavour was born
13th August 1860 (150 years ago today) Annie Oakley was born
13th August 1910 (100 years ago today) Florence Nightingale died
17th August 1960 (50 years ago today) The trial of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers begins in Moscow.
26th August 1910 (100 years ago today) Mother Teresa was born