What are the important events that happened on August 31? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 31: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 31 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 18, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,751,040 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatetracontatetragon’ day.
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Virgo is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,271 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 31 Historical Events
- 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.
- 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.
- 1962 –Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
- 1963 –Sarawak, North Borneo and Singapore achieve technical independence pending accession to the Federation of Malaysia
- 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.
- 2005 –A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
Who were born on August 31?
- 1721 –George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
- 1916 –Danny Litwhiler, American baseball player and coach
- 1938 –Martin Bell, British journalist
- 1940 –Wilton Felder, American musician
- 1973 –Scott Niedermayer, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 –Andriy Medvedev, Ukrainian tennis player
- 1979 –Mickie James, American professional wrestler
- 1979 –Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian film music composer
- 1982 –Ian Crocker, American swimmer
- 1989 –Dezmon Briscoe, American football player
Who died on August 31?
- 651 –Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary (birth date unknown)
- 683 –Pacal II, ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque (b. 603)
- 1372 –Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)
- 1741 –Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
- 1924 –Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1881)
- 1948 –Billy Laughlin, American actor (b. 1932)
- 1967 –Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891)
- 1973 –John Ford, American film director (b. 1894)
- 1978 –John Wrathall, Rhodesian politician (b. 1913)
- 2007 –Jean Jacques Paradis Canadian general (b.1928)
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