About August 31
August 31, 2021 is the 243rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 122 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 154 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.
- 1314 –King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.
- 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.
- 1813 –At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastián), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town. Elsewhere, Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.
- 1864 –During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1897 –Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
- 1907 –Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
- 1920 –The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1936 –Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
- 1941 –World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
- 1945 –The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
- 1957 –The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1962 –Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
- 1965 –The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
- 1987 –Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
- 1994 –The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
- 1996 –Saddam Hussein’s troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
- 1997 –Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
- 1998 –North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.
- 2005 –A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
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