Portal:Prostitution/Anniversaries/August


 * 11th
 * 1929: Birth of Grisélidis Réal, a writer, sex worker and activist from Geneva, Switzerland.
 * 1952: Birth of Lindi St Clair (Marian June Akin), a British author, leader of the Corrective Party, and campaigner for prostitutes' rights. She accused the Inland Revenue in the High Court of England of being "Her Majesty's pimps".
 * 14th
 * 1885: Brothels were outlawed in the United Kingdom by the passing of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.
 * 15th
 * 1889: Birth of Marthe Richard, a French prostitute and spy. She later became a politician and worked towards the closing of brothels in France in 1946.
 * 16th
 * 1959: Street prostitution was outlawed in England and Wales by the Street Offences Act 1959 coming into force.
 * 17th
 * 1888: Murder of Martha Tabram, an English prostitute killed in a spate of violent murders in Whitechapel, in the East End of London. She may have been the first victim of the still-unidentified Jack the Ripper.
 * 31st
 * 1888: Murder of Mary Ann Nichols. Her death has been attributed to the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper.