31. August
of the 31. August is the 243. Day of the Gregorian calendar (the 244. in leap years): thus 122 days up to the year end remain.
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of events
- 1888: The Londoner series murderer „Jack the Ripper “commits his first murder
- 1897: Inauguration of the emperor William i. - Monument at the German hit a corner in Koblenz
- 1914: The battle with fir mountain endswith a victory for the German troops
- 1926: Neutrality and Nichtangriffsvertrag between the USSR and Afghanistan (running time three years)
- 1939: The fictitious assault on the transmitter Gleiwitz by member of the SS marks the point of conclusion in Hitler's escalation politics oppositePoland and supplies the justification for the attack on Poland the following morning
- 1942: General strike in Luxembourg against German crew power
- 1950: Prohibition of the witnesses Jehovas in the GDR. Hundreds of arrests and looking processes follow
- 1962: Trinidad and Tobago become independent of England
- 1980: Birth of the Solidarność: Of Poland vice-Prime Minister Jagielski and strike leader Wałęsa the August agreement signs 1987 in
- Danzig: Djibouti becomes member in the UNESCO
- 1990: On the way to German reunification in Berlin the agreement contract signs
- 1991: Kirgisistan becomes independently
- 1991: Usbekistan becomes independently
- 1992: Pascal Lissouba becomes a president of the Republic of the Congo
- 1994: The last Russian troops leave Estonia and Lettland
- 1994: Thoselast allied armed forces (from the Soviet Union) leave Berlin
- 1994: Sense Féin, the political arm of the Irish-republican army, calls for the first time a one-sided armistice from
- 2004: Grundsteinlegung for a new, parallel to the damdam dam running bridge. The developingBridge is to become the longest of Germany
economy
- 1998: Large Kursverluste at the New Yorker stock exchange: The Dow Jones indexindex index fell by 6,8 per cent
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of science and technology
- 1951: The first long playing record alsoin the minute one introduces to 33 1/3 revolutions in Duesseldorf by the German Grammophon
culture
- 1916: Otto walter finds the head of the famous Zeus in Aigeira - statue
- 1928: In Berlin the premiere of the three-groschen opera finds in the theatre at the shipbuilder dam instead of
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disasters
- 1812: During stranding the Spanish troop transporter Salvador in the Mündungsgebiet of the Rio de la Plata 470 of 600 humans dies on board. This concerns the heaviest ship misfortune inthe history of Uruguay.
- 1950: London, Great Britain. On the airport a Vickers Viking had an accident because of strong fog. 28 dead ones
- 1968: Earthquake of the strength 7.3 in Iran, 12,000 to 20,000 dead ones
- 1974: Train accident inStation of Zagreb in Croatia, more than 150 dead ones
- 1986: Cerritos, close Los Angeles, California, the USA. Collision Douglas of a DC-9 of the Aeromexico in the approach flight with a Piper Pa 28. 82 humans died
- 1997: The explosion of an explosive device in „the Ochotny Rjad “- shopping centre under the manege in Moscow demands 1 victim 40 further persons hurts
- 1999: Buenos Aires, Argentina. A Boeing 737 the Lineas Aereas Privadas Argentinas, with approximately 100On board, shoots humans when starting beyond the starting and runway at a golf course, where she catches fires. 80 humans die, 26 can be saved with partially heavy injuries
sport
of entries from athlete IC world records to find itselfunder the respective discipline under Leichtathletik; for events within the range formula 1 see there.
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born
- 12: Caligula, Roman emperor from 37 to 41
- 161: Commodus, Roman emperor of 180to 192
- 1760: Aristide Aubert Dupetit Thouars, French admiral
- 1777: Ernst August blade man, German writer
- 1777: Jean Pierre Joseph d'Arcet, French chemist
- 1797: James Ferguson, Scottish engineer and astronomer
- 1798: George FriedrichPuchta, German lawyer
- 1802: Karl baron von Urban, Austrian field marshal second lieutenant
- 1821: Hermann of Helmholtz, German physicist
- 1830: Edmund Kretschmer, German composer
- 1842: Josef Riehl, Austrian entrepreneur
- 1843: George von Hertling, German politician and philosopher
- 1863: Sergei Michailowitsch Prokudin Gorski, Russian pioneer of the color photography
- 1870: Maria Montessori, Schweizer Pädagogin
- 1874: Edward Thorndike, American psychologist
- 1878: Franc Jarvis, US-American athlete
- 1879: Alma meal Werfel, Austrian-US-American artist
- 1879: Yoshihito, 123. Tennō (emperor) of Japan
- 1880: Eduard Edert, German politician and writer, MdB
- 1880: Wilhelmina, queen of the Netherlands
- 1893: Lilly Laskine, French Harfenistin
- 1895: Karl Fiehler, Politicians of the NSDAP and Munich mayors
- 1897: Fredric March, US-American actor
- 1906: Raymond summer, French running driver
- 1908: William Saroyan, US-American writer
- 1908: Harsh ore Dill, German athlete and olympia participant
- 1909: Walter Zawadil, German politician and MdB
- 1912: Helmut Hamann, German athlete and olympia medal winner
- 1913: Berne pool of broadcasting corporations Lovell, British astrophysicist
- 1915: Alice black DOS, Israeli lady journalist
- 1918: Lucrecia Kasilag, Philippine Komponistin
- 1918: AlanJay Lerner, US-American Liedtexter (My fair lady)
- 1922: August count Kageneck, German journalist
- 1924: Harry Meyen, German actor and director
- 1925: Marvin Davis, US-American entrepreneur
- 1928: James Coburn, US-American actor
- 1928: Jaime Lachica Sin, emeritierter archbishop of Manila and cardinal
- 1938: Martin Bell, British newscaster and politician
- 1941: Wolfgang Hilbig, German writer
- 1942: Raymond Ranjeva, lawyer from Madagascar and vice-president of the international Court of Justice
- 1945: Van Morrison, British singer and Songschreiber
- 1945: Itzhak Perlman, Israeli Violinist
- 1948: Harald Ertl, Austrian-German Formel-1-Rennfahrer
- 1948: Rudolf donors, German musician and Songschreiber (Scorpions)
- 1948: Holger Osieck, German football coachand - functionary
- 1949: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Gere, US-American actor
- 1949: David Politzer, US-American physicist
- 1949: Rick Robert, US-amerikanischer musician
- 1954: Robert excrement crowd January, Armenian politician, head of the government and president
- 1955: Edwin Moses, US-American athlete
- 1959: Ralph Krueger, GermanCanadian ice hockey coach
- 1961: Neill Archer, English tenor
- 1965: Céline Bonnier, Canadian actress
- 1969: Nathalie Bouvier, French Skirennläuferin
- 1970: Air van Lent, Fussballer with Dutch and German nationality
- 1972: Chris Tucker, US-American actor
- 1976: Roque junior, Brazilian football player
- 1982: Patrick Nuo, Schweizer singer
- 1982: Ian Crocker, US-American float
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Heinrich V. of England, † 1422
- 1056: Theodora III., Empress von Byzanz
- 1234: Go-Horikawa, 86. Emperor of Japan
- 1287: Konrad von Würzburg, German poet, Epiker and didactical poet
- 1422: Heinrich V., King of England from the house Lancaster
- 1528: Mathis Gothart Nithart, German painter and commercial artist, building master, Wasserkunstmacher
- 1667: Johann Rist, poet and Prediger
- 1688: John Bunyan, Baptistenprediger and writer from England
- 1688: Maria Magdalena von Oettingen, second woman of the Mark count Wilhelm ofBathe
- 1709: Andrea Pozzo, Italian painter
- 1762: Momozono, 116. Emperor of Japan
- 1795: André Danican Philidor, chess player
- 1799: Nicolas Henri Jardin, French architect
- 1801: Nicola Sala, Italian composer
- 1811: LouisAntoine de Bougainville, French sailor and writer
- 1832: Antoine Léonard de Chézy, French Orientalist and joint founder of the Indologie
- 1834: Karl Ludwig Harding, German astronomer
- 1864: Ferdinand let-letting let-leaving, German politician and journalist
- 1867: Charles Pierre Baudelaire, French poet of the modern trend
- 1883: Levin Schücking, German writer
- 1900: John Bennet Lawes, British agriculture chemist
- 1902: Mathilde Wesendonck, German authoress
- 1913: Erwin Bälz, body physician of the imperial family and joint founderthe modern medicine in Japan
- 1915: Greene Vardiman Black, US-American physician
- 1920: William Wundt, German philosopher and psychologist
- 1927: Andranik Torosi Ozanyan, Armenian resistance fighter
- 1928: Bruno will, German philosopher, journalist and writer
- 1930: Eduard Meyer, German old historian
- 1939: William Böl, German writer and natural scientist
- 1940: Raymond Smith Dugan, US-American astronomer
- 1941: Marina Iwanowna Zwetajewa, Russian Dichterin and authoress
- 1945: Stefan Banach, PolishMathematician
- 1948: Andrei Alexandrowitsch Schdanow, Soviet politician
- 1948: Janus Djurhuus, trained lawyer, färöische poets
- 1955: Eberhard Koebel, author, founder the boy shank
- 1955: Willi building master, German painter
- 1956: Yves Nat, FrenchPianist and composer
- 1958: Hans's honour mountain, German theologian
- 1959: Josef Oesterle, German politician
- 1963: Georges Braque, French painter of the Kubismus
- 1965: Edward Elmer Smith, US-American writer
- 1966: Kasimir Edschmid, GermanWriter
- 1966: Willi Hammelrath, founder of the worker university castle Vondern
- 1967: Ilja honour castle, Soviet-Russian writer
- 1967: Juan Vitalio Acuña Núñez, Cuban revolutionary
- 1967: Tamara Bunke, Guerilliera in Latin America
- 1969: Ottmar Gerster,German composer
- 1969: Rocky Marciano, US-American Boxer
- 1973: John Ford, US-amerikanischer director
- 1985: Franc MacFarlane Burnet, Australian physician
- 1986: Henry of moorlands, English sculptor and painter
- 1986: Jorge Alessandri, Chilean politician
- 1986: Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, Finnish politician
- 1992: Wolfgang Güllich, German Sportkletterer
- 1993: Siegfried Schürenberg, German actor and synchronous speaker
- 1995: Gertrud Luckner, Christian Widerstandskämpferin, Pazifistin
- 1995: Refuge Janssen, German draughtsman andCommercial artist
- 1997: Diana Frances Spencer, wife of the English successor to the throne Prince Charles
- 2002: Lionel Hampton, US-American jazz Vibraphonist and picking up vein
- 2004: Carl Wayne, British singer and actor
- 2005: Józef Rotblat, Polish poet and Nobelpreisträger
- 2005: Michael Sheard, Scottish actor
- 2005: Emil Rudolf Greulich, German writer
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of celebration and anniversaries
- national holiday in Malaysia
- national holiday in Kirgisistan
- national holiday in Trinidad and Tobago
- NIC desert mash
see also: Historical anniversaries, time scale
