August 31
August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining.
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Events
\n*1876 - Ottoman sultan Murat V was deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.\n*1886 - Earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina\n*1888 - Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims\n*1897 - Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie camera\n*1907 - England, Russia and France form the Triple Entente\n*1920 - First radio news programme broadcast in Detroit, Michigan\n*1957 - Malaya gains independence from the United Kingdom \n*1962 - Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent\n*1978 - Symbionese Liberation Army founders William and Emily Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst\n*1980 - Solidarity labor union formed in Poland\n*1985 - Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker" killer, is arrested in Los Angeles, California\n*1986 - An Aeromexico Douglas DC-9 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California killing 82, including 15 on the ground\n*1991 - Kyrgyzstan declares independence from the USSR\n*1994 - Irish Republican Army declares a cease-fire\n*1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales dies in a car crash in Paris
Births
\n*12 - Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor (d. 41)\n*161 - Commodus, Roman Emperor (d. 192)\n*1811 - Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist (d. 1872)\n*1834 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer\n*1870 - Maria Montessori, educator (d. 1952)\n*1878 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)\n*1879 - Alma Mahler, composer (d. 1969)\n*1880 - Queen Wilhelmina I of the Netherlands (d. 1962)\n*1885 - DuBose Heyward, playwright (d. 1940)\n*1897 - Fredric March, actor (d. 1975)\n*1903 - Arthur Godfrey, television host (d. 1983)\n*1907 - William Shawn, editor\n*1907 - Ramon Magsaysay, Philippine president\n*1908 - William Saroyan, novelist, playwright (d. 1981)\n*1914 - Richard Basehart, actor (d. 1984)\n*1916 - Daniel Schorr, journalist\n*1918 - Alan Jay Lerner, composer\n*1924 - Buddy Hackett, actor, comedian\n*1928 - James Coburn, actor (d. 2002)\n*1935 - Frank Robinson, baseball player, manager\n*1935 - Eldridge Cleaver, political activist (d. 1998)\n*1938 - Martin Bell, British journalist and politician\n*1945 - Van Morrison, musician\n*1945 - Itzhak Perlman, musician\n*1949 - Richard Gere, actor\n*1958 - Edwin Moses, Olympic Games gold medalist in track and field\n*1970 - Debbie Gibson, singer\n*1972 - Chris Tucker, actor
Deaths
\n*1688 - John Bunyan, poet\n*1867 - Charles Baudelaire, writer\n*1888 - Mary Ann Nicholls, first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper\n*1941 - Marina Tsvetaeva, poet\n*1969 - Rocky Marciano, boxer\n*1973 - John Ford, film director\n*1979 - Sally Rand, stripper\n*1985 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, biologist\n*1986 - Henry Moore, sculptor\n*1986 - Urho Kekkonen, president of Finland\n*1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales\n*1997 - Dodi Fayed, film producer\n*2002 - Lionel Hampton, vibraphone virtuoso (b. 1908)
Holidays and observances
\n* Malaysia: National Day
August 30 -
September 1 -
July 31 -
September 30 --
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