About August 31
August 31, 2020 is the 244th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 122 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 165 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 31
- 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.
- 1803 –Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning.
- 1876 –Ottoman Sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
- 1886 –An earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1920 –Polish-Bolshevik War: a decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
- 1936 –Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
- 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.
- 1943 –The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
- 1945 –The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
- 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.
- 1963 –Sarawak, North Borneo and Singapore achieve technical independence pending accession to the Federation of Malaysia
- 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.
- 1986 –Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
- 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.
- 1997 –Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
- 2005 –A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
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