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Events on the 31st of August in history

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31 Aug 1056 After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
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31 Aug 1218 Al-Kamil becomes Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia on the death of his father Al-Adil.
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31 Aug 1230 Utrecht Bishop Willebrand grants Swells state justice
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31 Aug 1310 German King Heinrich VII makes his son Johan King of Bohemia
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31 Aug 1314 King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.
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31 Aug 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.
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31 Aug 1535 Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII
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31 Aug 1751 English troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India
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31 Aug 1772 Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
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31 Aug 1778 British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in the Bronx during Revolution
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31 Aug 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.
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31 Aug 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht.
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31 Aug 1803 Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning.
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31 Aug 1813 At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastián), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town. Elsewhere, Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.
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31 Aug 1829 Opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris)
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31 Aug 1829 The opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris)
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31 Aug 1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Postage Praia, Cape Verde Islands
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31 Aug 1842 Micah Rugg patents a nuts and bolts machine
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31 Aug 1842 US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
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31 Aug 1843 Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate
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31 Aug 1850 California pioneers organized at Montgomery and Clay Streets
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31 Aug 1864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesboro Georgia, 1900 casualties
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31 Aug 1864 During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
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31 Aug 1864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesborough
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31 Aug 1876 Ottoman Sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
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31 Aug 1881 1st US tennis championships (Newport, RI)
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31 Aug 1886 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston SC, 110 die
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31 Aug 1886 An earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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31 Aug 1886 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
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31 Aug 1887 Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)
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31 Aug 1888 Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
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31 Aug 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box" (BG)
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31 Aug 1894 Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases
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31 Aug 1895 German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
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31 Aug 1895 1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0)
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31 Aug 1897 General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum
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31 Aug 1897 Thomas Edison patented his movie camera (Kinetograph)
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31 Aug 1897 Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
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31 Aug 1900 British troops over run Johannesburg
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31 Aug 1900 Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
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31 Aug 1902 Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
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31 Aug 1903 Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of the month
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31 Aug 1905 25th US Mens Tennis: Beals C Wright beats Holcombe Ward (62 61 119)
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31 Aug 1905 Mbunga-rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East-Africa
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31 Aug 1907 Britain and Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia and Tibet
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31 Aug 1907 Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
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31 Aug 1907 England, Russia & France form the Triple Entente
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31 Aug 1909 A J Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball
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31 Aug 1909 Thure Johnstown wins Stockholm marathon (2:40:34.2)
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31 Aug 1913 Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven Netherlands
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31 Aug 1913 Police attack a union rally during the Dublin Lock-out, killing two people and injuring hundreds.
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31 Aug 1914 24.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan (state record)
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31 Aug 1914 General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris
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31 Aug 1914 German troops reconquer Soldau / Neidenburg East-Prussia
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31 Aug 1914 Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg / 30,000 Russians die)
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31 Aug 1915 Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits New York Giants, 2-0
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31 Aug 1918 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended September 2)
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31 Aug 1918 World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
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31 Aug 1919 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
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31 Aug 1919 Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev
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31 Aug 1919 Communist Labor Party of America formed in Chicago
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31 Aug 1919 Petlyura's Ukranian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
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31 Aug 1920 Belgium starts paying old age pensions
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31 Aug 1920 Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
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31 Aug 1920 Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
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31 Aug 1920 The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
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31 Aug 1923 League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
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31 Aug 1924 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)
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31 Aug 1928 Brecht and Weils "Dreigroschenoper" premieres
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31 Aug 1934 1st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 0, All-Stars 0 (79,432)
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31 Aug 1934 1st football all star game-Bears tie collegians 0-0 in Chicago
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31 Aug 1935 Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages
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31 Aug 1935 White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Indians 5-0
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31 Aug 1935 In an attempt to stay out of the growing turmoil in Europe, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
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31 Aug 1935 1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis)
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31 Aug 1935 Chicago White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleveland Indians, 5-0
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31 Aug 1935 FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
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31 Aug 1936 Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
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31 Aug 1938 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)
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31 Aug 1939 Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia
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31 Aug 1939 Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz
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31 Aug 1939 Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.
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31 Aug 1940 1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
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31 Aug 1940 56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton)
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31 Aug 1940 Fighter Command loses 39 / Luftwaffe 41 airplanes
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31 Aug 1940 German occupiers in the Netherlands begin soap ration
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31 Aug 1940 US National Guard assembles
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31 Aug 1940 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
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31 Aug 1941 World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
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31 Aug 1941 Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC
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31 Aug 1942 Battle at Alam Halfa: German and Italians assault
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31 Aug 1942 U-boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton)
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31 Aug 1943 1st battle of Essex / new Yorktown: US assault on Marcus Island
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31 Aug 1943 Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo
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31 Aug 1943 The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
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31 Aug 1944 Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie, " Italy
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31 Aug 1944 French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris
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31 Aug 1944 French troops liberate Bordeaux
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31 Aug 1944 Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest
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31 Aug 1945 The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
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31 Aug 1947 Hungarian communist party wins election
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31 Aug 1947 New York Giants set season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
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31 Aug 1948 Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 50th jubilee
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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.
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31 Aug 1950 Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs and a single in a game vs. Braves
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31 Aug 1953 KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
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31 Aug 1953 WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins
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31 Aug 1954 WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins
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31 Aug 1954 Census Bureau established
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31 Aug 1954 Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die
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31 Aug 1955 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Illinois
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31 Aug 1955 KTRE TV channel 9 in Lufkin, TX (ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting
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31 Aug 1955 1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx)
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31 Aug 1957 Malayasia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain
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31 Aug 1957 The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
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31 Aug 1957 Malaya (Malaysia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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31 Aug 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.
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31 Aug 1959 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
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31 Aug 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
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31 Aug 1959 Australia defeats US for tennis' Davis Cup
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31 Aug 1960 Agricultural Hall of Fame forms
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31 Aug 1960 Agricultural Hall of Fame established
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31 Aug 1961 Amsterdam National Ballet forms
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31 Aug 1962 Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
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31 Aug 1962 Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
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31 Aug 1963 "Hot line" between Moscow-Washington, DC installed
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31 Aug 1963 North Borneo (now Sabah) achieve a self governance.
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31 Aug 1964 Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels
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31 Aug 1965 House of Reps joins Senate establish Department of Housing & Urban Develop
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31 Aug 1965 The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
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31 Aug 1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
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31 Aug 1968 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
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31 Aug 1968 Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
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31 Aug 1968 Garfield Sobers became the first batsman ever to hit six sixes in a single over of six consecutive balls in first-class cricket.
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31 Aug 1968 6,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
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31 Aug 1968 Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover
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31 Aug 1969 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival
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31 Aug 1970 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
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31 Aug 1970 Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14
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31 Aug 1970 WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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31 Aug 1970 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
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31 Aug 1970 US defeats German FR for tennis' Davis Cup
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31 Aug 1971 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
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31 Aug 1971 Dave Scott becomes 1st person to drive a car on the Moon
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31 Aug 1972 Lasse Viren runs Olympic / world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
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31 Aug 1972 Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics
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31 Aug 1973 PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony
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31 Aug 1973 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
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31 Aug 1974 Pirate Radio Veronica moves into Scheveningen harbor
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31 Aug 1976 George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing "My Sweet Lord"
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31 Aug 1976 Mexican peso devalued
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31 Aug 1976 Trinidad and Tobago adopts constitution
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31 Aug 1976 Waldemar Cierpinski wins 18th Olympics Marathon (2:09:55.0)
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31 Aug 1977 Spyros Kyprianou appointed President of Cyprus
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31 Aug 1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
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31 Aug 1978 Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka
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31 Aug 1978 Emily and William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst
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31 Aug 1978 Symbionese Liberation Army founders William & Emily Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst
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31 Aug 1979 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open
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31 Aug 1979 Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green
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31 Aug 1979 Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with the Sun
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31 Aug 1979 Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador
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31 Aug 1980 80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
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31 Aug 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.
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31 Aug 1980 Flood in Ibadan after 12 hours of heavy downpour killed over 300 people and properties worth million destroyed.
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31 Aug 1980 Poland's Solidarity labor union founded
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31 Aug 1981 Royals manager Jim Frey is fired and replaced by Dick Howser
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31 Aug 1982 Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement.
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31 Aug 1983 Edwin Moses of USA sets the 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
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31 Aug 1984 Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
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31 Aug 1984 Pinklin Thomas defeats Tim Witherspoon for the WBC heavyweight title
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31 Aug 1985 "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Illinois
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31 Aug 1985 Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
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31 Aug 1985 Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S California captured in East Los Angeles
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31 Aug 1986 Aeromexico DC-9 and small plane collide in LA, killing 82
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31 Aug 1986 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
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31 Aug 1986 Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
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31 Aug 1986 The Soviet passenger liner  Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
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31 Aug 1986 Aeromexico jet & small plane collide kill 82
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31 Aug 1986 Soviet passenger ship Adm Nakhimov, collides with a merchant vessel
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31 Aug 1987 South Africa longest mine strike in history ends
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31 Aug 1987 Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
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31 Aug 1987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for the year record ($697,385)
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31 Aug 1988 Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents
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31 Aug 1988 Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches
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31 Aug 1988 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
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31 Aug 1989 Aeromexico DC-9 collides over LA, 82 die (15 on the ground)
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31 Aug 1989 Arbitrator T Roberts orders owners to pay $105 million for collusion
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31 Aug 1990 Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season
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31 Aug 1990 East and West Germany sign a treaty to join legal and political systems
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31 Aug 1990 Ken Griffey Sr and Jr are 1st father and son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners
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31 Aug 1991 Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3
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31 Aug 1991 Jan Berry (Jan & Dean) weds Gertie Filip
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31 Aug 1991 Richard J Kerr, ends term as Deputy Director of CIA
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31 Aug 1991 Rockies bat out of order against Expos in 1st inning
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31 Aug 1991 William H Webster, ends term as 14th Director of CIA
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31 Aug 1991 Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
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31 Aug 1992 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure, Christopher Lloyd and Dana Delane
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31 Aug 1992 Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die
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31 Aug 1992 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland OH on WNCX 98.5 FM
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31 Aug 1992 Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
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31 Aug 1993 Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
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31 Aug 1993 Venezuela President Carlos Perez flees
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31 Aug 1994 Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia and Latvia
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31 Aug 1994 Northern Ireland Sinn Fein proclaims ceases-fire
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31 Aug 1994 Pentium computer beats world chess champ Gari Kasparov
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31 Aug 1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
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31 Aug 1996 Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
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31 Aug 1997 "Gin Game, " closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 144 performances
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31 Aug 1997 Last episode of Rolanda airs
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31 Aug 1997 Pittsburgh Senior Golf Classic
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31 Aug 1997 Scott Hoch wins Greater Milwaukee Golf Open with a 268
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31 Aug 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
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31 Aug 1998 North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.
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31 Aug 1999 The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
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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.
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31 Aug 2005 A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
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31 Aug 2006 Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
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