August bank holidays that made history

When it comes to momentous events, the August bank holiday has had its fair share over the years. Remember any of these?
(If you remember 1784, please don't come knocking for us... and stop leaving occult symbols in our cornflakes too.)

2000
Millennium festival – Mardi Gras, motor sports, processions and performances took place all over the UK as part of the year long millennium festival.

1997
A Cambridgeshire family who sold everything to sail around the world are rescued from their crippled yacht by the Royal Navy in the Bay of Biscay.

1995
In London, the Rugby Union authorities announce that the amatuer game is turning professional.

1979
Lord Mountbatten, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, is killed by an IRA bomb planted on his boat Shadow V off the coast of County Sligo, Ireland.

1966
English yachtsman Francis Chichester leaves Plymouth Harbour to begin a solo voyage around the world aboard his boat, Gipsy Moth IV.

1962
US spacecraft Mariner II is launched on a voyage to the planet, Venus.

1960
A quartet comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best (later replaced by Ringo Starr) performs as "the Beatles" for the first time in Hamburg, Germany.

1940
Bombs fell at Shiremoor, Broomhill, Holy Island, Hepscott, New York and Netherton in Northumberland, South Shields, Sunderland, Shincliffe, Warden Law, West Hartlepool, Ryhope and Stockton in Co Durham and Hull in Yorkshire.

1883
The most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history occurs on Krakatau, a small, uninhabited island located west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The explosions caused 120-foot tidal waves and could be heard more than 2,000 miles away in Australia.

1939
In Germany, a jet-propelled aircraft, the Heinkel 178, makes its' first flight at Marienehe in north Germany.

1912
The story of Tarzan of the Apes, written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first goes into print as a serial in a magazine.

1900
In South Africa, the Boer army commanded by Louis Botha is defeated by the British at Bergendal.

1859
The world's first commercially productive oil-well is drilled at Titusville, Pennsylvannia, by Edwin Drake.

1813
130,000 French troops, commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte, defeat a 200,000 strong Austrian Army at the Battle of Dresden.

1784
The first British balloon ascent is made by James Tytler at Edinburgh.