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3rd August 1914: Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, remarked that “The lamps are going out all over Europe…”

2nd August 216 BCE: Hannibal defeats the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae

1st August 1714: George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain

31st July 1971: David Scott and James Irwin drive the first Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission

30th July 1792: La Marseillaise, the future French national anthem, first sung in Paris by a group of volunteer soldiers from the city of Marseille