The August 31st is the 243e Jour of the Année (244e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

• 1751 : Robert Clive takes the town of Jonquière

• 1801: The Ménou general, chief of the French troops of Egypt, sign an agreement of evacuation with the British with Alexandria putting an end to the Countryside of Egypt.
• 1850 : The king Kamehameha III proclaims the independence of Honolulu
• 1862: With the Puerto de Santa María (Spain, Province of Cadiz), alternate of Handbook Fuentes there Rodríguez known as “Bocanegra”, Spanish Matador.
• 1864 : Beginning of the evacuation of Atlanta by the troops Southerners under the effect of the northerner troops ordered by the general Sherman
• 1888: First crime of the serial killer Jack Éventreur.

XXe century

• 1907 : Russo agreement British, under the aegis of France: birth of the Triple Entente.

• 1907 : Enclose international anarchistic Congrès of Amsterdam
• 1937: Creation of the SNCF.
• 1940 : Meet Tizard – Vannevar Bush.
• 1957 : The Fédération of the Malayan states declares its independence.
• 1966 : First flight of the first plane on vertical takeoff, the Harrier
• 1980: After the disorders of July, the Polish Communist government ends up yielding and signs the agreements of Gdańsk with Lech Wałęsa, workman-electrician and leader of the trade union Solidarność.
• 1983 : The Red Army cuts down a South Korean Boeing 747 thinking that it was a military aircraft.
• 1991 : Ouzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan proclaim their independence with respect to U.R.S.S
• 1994: After 25 years of violences, the Irish Republican Army (WILL GO) promises to make respect a complete cease-fire as from this day at midnight.
• 1997 : Accident of the princess Diana Spencer with Paris.

XXIe century

• 2004 : The France and the the United States invite the Safety advice UNO to vote for a resolution to encourage the Syria to return its sovereignty to the Lebanon.

Births

•        12: Caligula ( Caius Julius Caesar Germanicus ), future Roman Emperor.

•     161: Convenient ( Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus ), wire of Marc Aurèle and his wife Faustine, future Roman Emperor († December 31st 192).
• 1786 : Eugene Chevreul French chemist († 1889).
• 1809 : Oswald Heer, geologist and Swiss naturalist († September 27th 1883).
• 1811 : Théophile Gautier, poet, novelist and French critic art. († October 23rd 1872).
• 1870 : Maria Montessori, doctor and Italian, creative pedagog of the “Houses of the Children” († May 6th 1952).
• 1879 : Alma Mahler, born Schindler, artist, compositrice and painter of Austrian origin († December 11th 1964).
• 1880 : Wilhelmine of the Netherlands († November 28th 1962), queen of the Netherlands of 1890 with 1948.
• 1893 : Lily Laskine, harpist († 1988)
• 1928: James Coburn, American actor († November 18th).
• 1903 : Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher († April 10th 1985).
• 1908 : Paul-Jacques Bonzon, French writer († September 24th 1978)
• 1926: Josi Meier, Swiss political woman († November 4th 2006).
• 1931 : Jean Béliveau, Canadian hockey player on ice
• 1940: Alain Calmat, skater, doctor and politician French
• 1945: Leonid I. Popov, Ukrainian spationaut
• 1945: Van Morrison, Irish type-setter author
• 1949: Richard Gere, American actor.
• 1956 : Masashi Tashiro, Artist Television Japan board.
• 1958 : Eric Zemmour, French political journalist.
• 1960 : Chris Whitley, American musician († November 20th 2005).
• 1963 : Sylvain Kastendeuch, Footballer French.
• 1976 : Vincent Delerm, French singer
• 1988: Rachel Legrain-Trapani, Miss France 2007

Death

• 1247 : Conrad Ier de Mazovie.

• 1422 : Henri V of England, king d' Angleterre. (° August 9th 1387).
• 1654 : Ole WORM (or Olaus Wormius), Doctor and collector Danish (° May 13rd 1588).
• 1661 : Jacques Hennequin, French theologist, professor of Theology to the Sorbonne. (° November 7th 1575).
• 1724 : Louis Ier, king d' Espagne. (° August 25th 1707).
• 1785 : Pietro Chiari, 72 years, dramatic author, Novelist and Librettist Italy N. (° December 25th 1712).
• 1795 : François-Andre Danican, known as Philidor , player of failures and type-setter French. (° September 7th 1726)
• 1811: Louis Antoine de Bougainville, navigator and explorer French (° November 11th 1729).
• 1834 : Karl Ludwig Harding, German Astronomer . (° September 29th 1765).
• 1867 : Charles Baudelaire, poet and writer French (° April 9th 1821).
• 1920: Wilhelm Wundt, psychologist and German philosopher (° August 16th 1832).
• 1937 : Albert Heim, Swiss geologist . (° April 12th 1849).
• 1973 : John Ford, producing and Realizer of American Cinema (° 1894).
• 1982 : Wladislaw Gomulka, politician Polish (° February 6th 1905)
• 1986: Henry Moore, British artist sculptor (° July 30th 1898).
• 1997 : Diana Spencer known as Lady Di , daughter-in-law of Elisabeth II of the United Kingdom. (° July 1st 1961).
• 2005 : Joseph Rotblat, British physicist, Nobel Prize of Peace 1995. (° November 4th 1908).

Celebrations

One celebrates the Saint Aristide

Catholic and orthodoxe saints

• Cyprien de Carthage († 258), bishop.
• Aidan de Lindisfarne († 640), bishop.

See too

• August 31st in sport
• August 31st in the railroads

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