Date | Text | |||
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100 years anniversary | ||||
31 Aug 1924 | Klaus Hashagen: Composer | |||
31 Aug 1924 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2) | |||
31 Aug 1924 | John Davidson, American physician and politician (d. 2012) | |||
31 Aug 1924 | Buddy Hackett, American actor and singer (d. 2003) | |||
31 Aug 1924 | Herbert Wise, Austrian-English director and producer | |||
31 Aug 1924 | Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian soldier (b. 1881) | |||
31 Aug 1924 | Buddy (Leonard) Hackett Bkln, comedian (God's Little Acre, Music Man) | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
31 Aug 1949 | Rick Roberts: Rocker (Firefall) | |||
31 Aug 1949 | Paul Hoffer: Composer, dies at 53 | |||
31 Aug 1949 | Richard Gere, American actor, singer, and producer | |||
31 Aug 1949 | Hugh David Politzer, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
31 Aug 1949 | The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War. | |||
31 Aug 1949 | Richard Gere Phila Pa, actor (Breathless, Cotton Club) | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
31 Aug 1974 | Andrei Medvedev: Kiev, Ukraine -- Tennis star (1991 French Open junior) | |||
31 Aug 1974 | Jessy Viceisza: Miss Universe - Bonaire (1996) | |||
31 Aug 1974 | Pirate Radio Veronica moves into Scheveningen harbor | |||
31 Aug 1974 | Andriy Medvedev, Ukrainian-Monacan tennis player | |||
31 Aug 1974 | William Pershing Benedict, American soldier and pilot (b. 1928) | |||
31 Aug 1974 | Norman Kirk, New Zealand engineer and politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1923) | |||
31 Aug 1974 | Traffic made their last live performance at the annual UK Reading Festival. Other acts appearing included; Alex Harvey, 10cc, Focus, Steve Harley and Procol Harum. £5.50 for a weekend ticket. | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
31 Aug 1999 | The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others. | |||
31 Aug 1999 | A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
31 Aug 2004 | Carl Wayne, English singer and actor (The Move, The Hollies, and The Vikings) (b. 1943) | |||
31 Aug 2004 | Carl Wayne the singer with The Move died from cancer. They had the 1969 UK No.1 single 'Blackberry Way.' Wayne also worked with The Hollies. | |||
31 Aug 2004 | UK medical magazine Thorax issued a warning to music fans saying that listening to loud music in the car can give you a collapsed lung. One 19 year-old had been treated in Bristol after his left lung collapsed as his 1,000-watt bass box boomed out in his Fiat Panda. | |||
31 Aug 2004
Fred Whipple |
death Fred Whipple Fred Whipple (b. 1906), American astronomer who coined the term "dirty snowball" to explain the nature of comets. |
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15 years anniversary | ||||
31 Aug 2009 | Eraño Manalo, Filipino minister (b. 1925) | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
31 Aug 2014 | Bapu, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1933) | |||
31 Aug 2014 | Ștefan Andrei, Romanian politician, 87th Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1931) | |||
31 Aug 2014 | Stan Goldberg, American illustrator (b. 1932) | |||
31 Aug 2014 | Jimi Jamison, American singer-songwriter (Survivor) (b. 1951) | |||
31 Aug 2014 | María Eugenia Llamas, Mexican actress (b. 1944) | |||
31 Aug 2014 | Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1945) |