August 31
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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
- 1535 - King Henry VIII of England is excommunicated by Pope Paul II
- 1876 - Ottoman sultan Murat V was deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
- 1886 - Earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina
- 1888 - Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims
- 1897 - Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie camera
- 1907 - England, Russia and France form the Triple Entente
- 1957 - Malaya gains independence from the United Kingdom
- 1962 - Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent
- 1978 - Symbionese Liberation Army founders William and Emily Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst
- 1980 - Solidarity labor union formed in Poland
- 1985 - Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker" killer, is arrested in Los Angeles, California
- 1991 - Kyrgyzstan declares independence from the USSR
- 1994 - Irish Republican Army declares a cease-fire
Births
- 12 - Caligula, Roman Emperor
- 1811 - Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist († 1872)
- 1834 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer
- 1870 - Maria Montessori, educator († 1952)
- 1879 - Alma Mahler, composer († 1964)
- 1880 - Queen Wilhelmina I of the Netherlands († 1962)
- 1885 - DuBose Heyward, playwright († 1940)
- 1897 - Fredric March, actor († 1975)
- 1903 - Arthur Godfrey, television host († 1983)
- 1907 - William Shawn, editor
- 1907 - Ramon Magsaysay, Philippine president
- 1908 - William Saroyan, novelist, playwright († 1981)
- 1914 - Richard Basehart, actor († 1984)
- 1916 - Daniel Schorr, journalist
- 1918 - Alan Jay Lerner, composer
- 1924 - Buddy Hackett, actor, comedian
- 1928 - James Coburn, actor
- 1935 - Frank Robinson, baseball player, manager
- 1935 - Eldridge Cleaver, political activist († 1998)
- 1938 - Martin Bell, British journalist and politician
- 1945 - Van Morrison, musician
- 1945 - Itzhak Perlman, musician
- 1949 - Richard Gere, actor
- 1958 - Edwin Moses, Olympic Games gold medalist in track and field
- 1970 - Debbie Gibson, singer
- 1971 - Chris Tucker, actor
Deaths
- 1688 - John Bunyan, poet
- 1867 - Charles Baudelaire, writer
- 1941 - Marina Tsvetaeva, poet
- 1969 - Rocky Marciano, boxer
- 1973 - John Ford, film director
- 1979 - Sally Rand, stripper
- 1986 - Henry Moore, sculptor
- 1986 - Urho Kekkonen, president of Finland
- 1997 - Princess Diana of Wales
- 1997 - Dodi Fayed, film producer
- 2002 - Lionel Hampton, vibraphone virtuoso
Holidays and observances
See Also:
August 30 - September 1 - July 31 - September 30 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "August 31" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_31 August 31, 2003
