Notable Historical Events on August 31st
August 31st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1056 |
Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty. |
1142 |
Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League - with the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah |
1230 |
Bishop Willebrand of Utrecht grants Swells state justice |
1310 |
German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia |
1422 |
Henry VI, becomes King of England at the age of 9 months. |
1535 |
Pope Paul II excommunicates King Henry VIII of England |
1745 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle, Scotland |
1751 |
British troops under Sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot, India |
1772 |
Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica |
1778 |
British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution |
1829 |
Opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris) |
1836 |
HMS Beagle anchors in Postage Praia, Cape Verde Islands |
1842 |
Micah Rugg patents a nuts & bolts machine |
1842 |
US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress |
1843 |
Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate |
1850 |
California pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets |
1864 |
Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Jonesboro Georgia, 1900 casualties |
1876 |
Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II. |
1881 |
1st US men's single tennis championships (Newport, RI) |
1886 |
1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston SC, 110 die |
1886 |
Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized |
1887 |
Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures) |
1889 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box" (BG) |
1894 |
Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases |
1894 |
The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act passed by Richard Seddon's Liberal government, making New Zealand the first country in the world to outlaw strikes in favour of compulsory arbitration |
1895 |
1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0) |
1896 |
Louis Napoleon Parker's "Rosemary" premieres in NYC |
1897 |
General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum |
1897 |
Thomas Edison patented his movie camera (Kinetograph) |
1900 |
British troops over run Johannesburg |
1900 |
Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies |
1902 |
Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs Adolph Landeburg (horse rider) |
1903 |
Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month |
1905 |
25th US Men's Tennis: Beals C Wright beats Holcombe Ward (6-2 6-1 11-9) |
1905 |
Mbunga-rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East-Africa |
1907 |
Britain & Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia & Tibet |
1907 |
Britain, Russia & France form Triple Entente |
1909 |
A J Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball |
1909 |
Thure Johnstown wins Stockholm marathon (2:40:34.2) |
1910 |
Theodore Roosevelt makes a speech in Kansas advocating a 'square deal': property shall be 'the servant and not the master of the commonwealth' |
1911 |
Anthony Fokker's demonstrates aircraft "Snip" |
1913 |
Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven, Netherlands |
1913 |
Massive protest rally on Sackville Street attacked by the Dublin Metropolitan Police; two strikers killed by the police |
1914 |
24.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan (state record) |
1914 |
General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris |
1914 |
German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia |
1914 |
Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
1915 |
Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0 |
1915 |
Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
1916 |
Oscar Asche's musical "Chu Chin Chow" premieres in London |
1918 |
Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2) |
1919 |
John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago |
1919 |
Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group |
1919 |
Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev |
1920 |
Belgium starts paying old age pensions |
1920 |
Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air |
1923 |
League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German) |
1923 |
Mussolini's troops occupy Corfu |
1924 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2) |
1928 |
Brecht & Weils "Dreigroschenoper" premieres |
1934 |
1st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 0, All-Stars 0 (79,432) |
1935 |
1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis) |
1935 |
Chicago White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleve Indians, 5-0 |
1935 |
FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents |
1935 |
Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages |
1935 |
White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Indians 5-0 |
1937 |
Det's rookie Rudy York sets record for HRs of 18 HRs in August |
1938 |
5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250) |
1939 |
Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia |
1939 |
Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz |
1940 |
1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands |
1940 |
56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton) |
1940 |
RAF Fighter Command loses 39 aircraft against Luftwaffe 41 |
1940 |
German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap rationing |
1940 |
US National Guard assembles |
1941 |
23 U-boats sunk this month (80,000 ton) |
1941 |
Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC |
1942 |
Battle at Alam Halfa: German & Italians assault |
1942 |
U boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton) |
1943 |
1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: US assault on Marcus Island |
1943 |
Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo |
1944 |
Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie" Italy |
1944 |
French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris |
1944 |
French troops liberate Bordeaux |
1944 |
Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest |
1945 |
The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies. |
1947 |
Hungarian communist party wins election |
1947 |
NY Giants set season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221) |
1948 |
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates golden jubilee |
1950 |
Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves |
1951 |
1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf |
1953 |
KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins |
1954 |
US Census Bureau forms |
1954 |
Hurricane Carol hits New England, 70 die, Costliest ever hurricane at the time and 1st storm name to be retired. |
1954 |
Indians beat Yanks 6-1 for record tying 26 wins in August (1931 A's) |
1954 |
WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins |
1955 |
1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx) |
1955 |
1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill |
1955 |
KTRE TV channel 9 in Lufkin, TX (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
Malaysia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain |
1959 |
48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2) |
1959 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
1959 |
Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game |
1960 |
Agricultural Hall of Fame forms |
1961 |
Amsterdam National Ballet forms |
1962 |
Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day) |
1964 |
Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels |
1965 |
US House of Representatives and Senate establish Department of Housing & Urban Development |
1965 |
The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight. |
1966 |
Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria) |
1968 |
12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran |
1968 |
68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher |
1968 |
Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover |
1968 |
Roy Face ties W Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with club |
1968 |
Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr X) in Minn, to become NWA champ |
1968 |
Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over. |
1969 |
25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival |
1970 |
59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0) |
1970 |
Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted |
1970 |
Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar |
1970 |
Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14 |
1970 |
WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30) |
1971 |
An inquiry into allegations of brutality by the security forces against those interned without trial in Northern Ireland is announced |
1972 |
Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4) |
1972 |
Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics |
1973 |
1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman) |
1973 |
PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony |
1974 |
Pirate Radio Veronica moves into Scheveningen harbor |
1976 |
George Harrison found guilty of plagiarising "My Sweet Lord" |
1976 |
Mexican peso devalued |
1976 |
Trinidad & Tobago adopts constitution |
1976 |
Waldemar Cierpinski wins 18th Olympics Marathon (2:09:55.0) |
1977 |
Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524') |
1977 |
Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus |
1977 |
Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote |
1978 |
Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka |
1978 |
Emily & William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst |
1978 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1979 |
16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open Tennis |
1979 |
Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun |
1979 |
Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador |
1979 |
Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green |
1980 |
"Oklahoma!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 301 performances |
1980 |
80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton |
1980 |
Poland's Solidarity trade union federations forms and is offically recognised by the Polish goverment |
1980 |
The Gdańsk Agreement is signed. |
1981 |
Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord's |
1981 |
Royals manager Jim Frey is fired & replaced by Dick Howser |
1982 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1983 |
Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz |
1984 |
Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1985 |
"Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill |
1985 |
Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M |
1985 |
Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S California captured in East LA |
1986 |
Aeromexico DC-9 & small plane collide in LA, killing 82 |
1986 |
Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die |
1987 |
Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385) |
1987 |
Michael Jacskon's "Bad" video premieres on CBS TV |
1987 |
South Africa longest mine strike in history ends |
1988 |
5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins |
1988 |
Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents |
1988 |
Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches |
1989 |
Aeromexico DC-9 collides over LA, 82 die (15 on the ground) |
1989 |
Arbitrator T Roberts orders owners to pay $105 million for collusion |
1990 |
Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season |
1990 |
East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems |
1990 |
Ken Griffey Sr & Jr are 1st father & son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners |
1991 |
Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3 |
1991 |
Richard J Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
1991 |
Rockies bat out of order against Expos in 1st inning |
1991 |
William H Webster, ends term as 14th director of CIA |
1992 |
44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure, Christopher Lloyd & Dana Delane win |
1992 |
Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die |
1992 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland OH on WNCX 98.5 FM |
1993 |
Minnesota Twins beat Cleve Indians 5-4 in 22 innings |
1993 |
Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees |
1993 |
HMS Mercury, the Royal Navy's communications training establishment, closes after 52 years in commission. |
1994 |
Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia & Latvia |
1994 |
Northern Ireland Sinn Fein proclaims ceases-fire |
1994 |
Pentium computer beats world chess champ Gari Kasparov |
1994 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire. |
1997 |
"Gin Game" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 144 performances |
1997 |
Don Mattingly's #23 is retired by NY Yankees |
1997 |
Last episode of Rolanda airs |
1997 |
Pittsburgh Senior Golf Classic |
1997 |
Scott Hoch wins Greater Milwaukee Golf Open with a 268 |
1997 |
Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel, Paris |
1998 |
North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite. |
1999 |
The first of a series of apartment bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others. |
1999 |
A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground. |
1999 |
Dino Ciccarelli retires from the NHL |
2005 |
A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people. |
2006 |
Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" was recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The painting was said to be in a better-than-expected condition. |
2006 |
23rd MTV Awards: Panic! At the Disco, Kelly Clarkson & James Blunt wins |
2012 |
Apple loses its patent dispute with Samsung in Tokyo, Japan |
2016 |
South Korea Says Top North Korean Official Executed |
2016 |
Donald Trump to Visit Mexico After More Than a Year of Mocking It |
2016 |
Singer Chris Brown Arrested After Standoff at His Los Angeles Home |
2017 |
Sandra Bullock donates $1 million to Hurricane Harvey victims |
2017 |
Prince William, Prince Harry pay tribute to Princess Diana before 20th anniversary of her death |
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