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.
- 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.
- 1876 –Ottoman Sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
- 1895 –German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
- 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 –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.
- 1943 –The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
- 1958 –A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
- 1962 –Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
- 1980 –After two weeks of nationwide strikes, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.
- 1986 –Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
- 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.
- 1999 –A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
- 1999 –The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
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