About August 31
August 31, 2024 is the 244th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 122 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 151 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 31
- 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.
- 1803 –Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning.
- 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.
- 1888 –Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper’s confirmed victims.
- 1895 –German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
- 1897 –Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
- 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.
- 1939 –Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1962 –Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
- 1965 –The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
- 1991 –Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1994 –The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
- 1997 –Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
- 2006 –Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
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