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.
- 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.
- 1876 –Ottoman Sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1965 –The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
- 1992 –Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
- 1994 –The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
- 1998 –North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.
- 1999 –The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
- 2006 –Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
- 2010 –The last episode of The Bill, the longest-running police procedural television series in the United Kingdom, is aired on ITV1.
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