About August 31
August 31, 2025 is the 243rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 122 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 170 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 31
- 1056 –After a sudden illness a few days previous, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies without children to succeed the throne, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
- 1218 –Al-Kamil becomes Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia on the death of his father Al-Adil.
- 1422 –King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
- 1795 –War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
- 1864 –During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1888 –Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper’s confirmed victims.
- 1897 –Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
- 1920 –Polish-Bolshevik War: a decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
- 1920 –The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1940 –Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
- 1941 –World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
- 1949 –The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
- 1962 –Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
- 1965 –The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
- 1982 –Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement.
- 1987 –Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
- 1991 –Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 –Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
- 1996 –Saddam Hussein’s troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
- 1999 –A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
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