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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1864 –During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1886 –An earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1888 –Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper’s confirmed victims.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1943 –The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
- 1957 –The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1994 –The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
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