It all happened here on the streets of Doncaster, to the people of Donny, these are the historic events that happened here once upon a time in our history:
| 11th August 1997 | Doncaster Rovers go down to their largest League Cup defeat 0-8 at home to Nottingham Forest. |
| 11th August 1968 | Percy Jackson Grammar School closes (to be reborn the following day as Adwick School). |
| 11th August 1947 | A train collision at Balby junction causes 18 fatalities and 118 injured. |
| 12th August 1955 | Doncaster Executioner Stephen Wade hangs his last victim at Armley Gaol.» |
| 13th August 1994 | Manager Sammy Chung's first game in charge of Doncaster Rovers, away at Hereford. |
| 13th August 1964 | Denaby-born executioner Harry Allen hangs his last victim Gwynne Owen Evans. |
| 14th August 1971 | Manager Maurice Setter's first game in charge of Doncaster Rovers, home to Newport. |
| 14th August 1971 | Doncaster-born Kevin Keegan plays and scores in his first game for Liverpool aged just 20.» |
| 14th August 1964 | Stainton's Freddie Trueman takes his 300th wicket for England against Australia at The Oval.» |
| 15th August 1998 | Manager Ian Snodin's first game in charge of Doncaster Rovers, away at Dover. |
| 17th August 1996 | Kerry Dixon's first game in charge of Doncaster Rovers as player manager. |
| 17th August 1930 | Poet Ted Hughes was born in West Yorkshire, the family moved when he was 7 to Mexborough.» |
