During an 8-day period starting Process_start on 1 August , 114 bush and grass fires Catastrophe burned Destroying through of the Clarence Valley and Kempsey local government areas .

The 8-day Blackpool Dance Festival is the world 's first and most famous annual ballroom dance competition Competition of international significance , held Hold in the Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool , England since 1920 .

However , after their third performance on 27 September , the Venezuelan government declared Expressing_publicly an 8-day period of National Mourning due to the passing Process_end of Venezuelan former president Romulo Betancourt .