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:

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.»
18th August 1951	Doncaster Rugby League Club play Wakefield in their first competitive game at Tattersfield.
18th August 1951	Mexborough's Heavyweight Boxing Champion Iron William Hague passed away aged 66.»
18th August 1940	RAF Hatfield becomes RAF Lindholme after just 10 weeks.
18th August 1645	King Charles entered a hostile Doncaster with 3000 infantrymen
18th August 1620	Antiquary Roger Dodsworth visits Chapel of St. Helen's in Barnburgh.
19th August 2012	The last 2 cooling towers at Thorpe Marsh Power Station is spectacularly demolished.
19th August 2000	Manager Steve Wignall's first game in charge of Doncaster Rovers, against Nuneaton Borough.
19th August 1989	Manager Billy Bremner's first game back in charge of Doncaster Rovers, away at Exeter.»
19th August 1961	Doncaster Rovers player coach/manager Danny Malloy's first game in charge, away at Gillingham.
19th August 1941	RAF fly prosthetic leg to prisoner of war pilot Douglas Bader.»
19th August 1933	1950's actor Brian Roper was born in Doncaster.
19th August 1879	Doncaster Rovers were founded at the Guildhall.
20th August 1999	Tish, the world record-breaking goldfish bought in Doncaster, dies at the age of 43.
20th August 1949	Manager Peter Doherty's first game in charge of Doncaster Rovers, away at Bradford
21st August 1933	Opera singer Dame Janet Baker was born in Hatfield.
22nd August 1966	ICI announces 600 job losses at it's Doncaster factory.
22nd August 1964	Doncaster Rovers manager Bill Liever's first game in charge, at home to Bradford Park Avenue.
22nd August 1959	Doncaster Rovers manager Jackie Bestall's first game in charge, away at Torquay Utd.

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