When was the official announcement...?

[Young And Alive]

That The Smiths had split up? I'm looking for the exact date so that the 20th anniversary can be marked on the same date this year.

 

[Oh my god. it's Robby!]

December 7th, 1941
a day that will live in infamy...

 

[Helen Bach]

I suppose you could use the date of this article...

http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~moz/quotes/split.htm

 

[Brel]

It got very confusing as the NME announced that they had "split" every week, for about 6 months. In those pre-internet days, the NME was pretty much where you got all your music news. So when the official announcement did come (after saying they would continue without Marr), we'd heard it all before!

 

[Young And Alive]

So we could say August 8 1987?