Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 31

1230: Utrecht bishop Willebrand grants Swells state justice
1310: German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia
1535: Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII
1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
1751: English troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India
1772: Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
1778: British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution
1829: Opera Guillaume Tell is produced (Paris)
1836: HMS Beagle anchors in Postage Praia, Cape Verde Islands
1842: Micah Rugg patents a nuts & bolts machine
1842: US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
1843: Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate
1850: Calif pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
1864: Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesboro Georgia, 1900 casualties
1886: 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston SC, 110 die
1886: Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
1887: Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)
1889: Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure Cardboard Box (BG)
1894: Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases
1896: Louis Napoleon Parker's Rosemary, premieres in NYC
1897: General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum
1897: Thomas Edison patented his movie camera (Kinetograph)
1900: British troops over run Johannesburg
1900: Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
1902: Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
1903: Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month
1905: Mbunga-rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East-Africa
1907: Britain & Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia & Tibet
1907: England, Russia & France form Triple Entente
1909: Thure Johnstown wins Stockholm marathon (2:40:34.2)
1911: Anthony Fokker's demonstrates aircraft Snip
1913: Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven Netherlands
1914: 24.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan (state record)
1914: General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris
1914: German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia
1914: Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die)
1915: Chic White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
1916: Oscar Asche's musical Chu Chin Chow, premieres in London
1918: Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1919: John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
1919: Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
1919: Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev
1920: Belgium starts paying old age pensions
1920: Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
1923: League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
1923: Mussolini's troops occupy Korfu
1924: Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)
1927: K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1081 Reseda & #1085 Amaryllis
1928: Brecht & Weils Dreigroschenoper premieres
1929: G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1158 Luda
1929: K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1157 Arabia
1934: 1st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 0, All-Stars 0 (79,432)
1935: 1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis)
1935: Chic White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleve Indians, 5-0
1935: FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
1935: Reinmuth discover asteroid 1370 Hella, 1371 Resi, 1372 Haremari & 2944
1935: Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages
1935: White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Indians 5-0
1937: Det's rookie Rudy York sets record for HRs of 18 HRs in August
1937: H-U Sandig discovers asteroid #4680 Lohrmann
1938: 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)
1939: Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia
1939: Staged Polish assault on radio station in Gleiwitz
1940: 1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
1940: 56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton)
1940: Fighter Command loses 39/Luftwaffe 41 airplanes
1940: German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap ration
1940: K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3911 Otomo
1940: US National Guard assembles
1941: 23 U-boats sunk this month (80,000 ton)
1941: Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC
1942: Battle at Alam Halfa: German & Italians assault
1942: U boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton)
1943: 1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: US assault on Marcus Island
1943: Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo
1944: Allied offensive at Gothen-linie, Italy
1944: French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris
1944: French troops liberate Bordeaux
1944: Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest
1947: Hungarian communist party wins election
1947: NY Giants set season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
1948: Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 50th jubilee
1950: Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves
1951: 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dsseldorf
1951: S Arend discovers asteroid #1640 Nemo
1953: KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953: WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins
1954: Census Bureau forms
1954: Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die
1954: Indians beat Yanks 6-1 for record tying 26 wins in August (1931 A's)
1954: K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1825 Klare
1954: WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins
1955: 1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx)
1955: 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill
1955: KTRE TV channel 9 in Lufkin, TX (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1957: Malayasia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain
1959: 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
1959: Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game
1960: Agricultural Hall of Fame forms
1961: Amsterdam National Ballet forms
1962: Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
1963: Hot line between Moscow-Washington, DC installed
1964: Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels
1965: House of Reps joins Senate establish Dept of Housing & Urban Develop
1966: Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
1968: 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
1968: a picture of them nude on cover
1968: Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have
1968: Roy Face ties W Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with club
1968: Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
1969: 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival
1970: 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
1970: Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
1970: Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar
1970: Peter Yarrow arrested for taking immoral liberties with girl, 14
1970: WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971: Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
1971: Dave Scott becomes 1st person to drive a car on Moon
1972: Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
1972: Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics
1973: #2447 Kronstadt, #3418, #3460 & #4049 Noragal'
1973: 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
1973: PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony
1973: T Smirnova discovers asteroids #2072 Kosmodemyanskaya, #2172 Plavsk,
1974: Pirate Radio Veronica moves into Scheveningen harbor
1975: Former Teamsters' president James Hoffa reported missing
1976: George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing My Sweet Lord
1976: Mexican peso devalued
1976: Trinidad & Tobago adopts constitution
1976: Waldemar Cierpinski wins 18th Olympics Marathon (2:09:55.0)
1977: Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
1977: election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote
1977: Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general
1977: Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus
1978: #2711 Aleksandrov, #2723 Gorshkov, #2785 Sedov, #2809 Vernadskij,
1978: #2968, 2995 Taratuta, 3038, 3234 Hergiani, 3373, 3591, 3656, 3660
1978: #4470 Sergeev-Censkij, #6685 & #7452
1978: Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka
1978: Emily & William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst
1978: N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2377 Shcheglov, #2408 Astapovich,
1978: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979: 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open
1979: Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun
1979: Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador
1979: Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green
1980: Oklahoma! closes at Palace Theater NYC after 301 performances
1980: Poland's Solidarity labor union forms
1981: Royals manager Jim Frey is fired & replaced by Dick Howser
1982: USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983: Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
1983: H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3450
1983: J Gibson discovers asteroid #3711
1983: Klet discovers asteroid #7390
1984: A Mrkos discovers asteroid #5865 Qualytemocrina
1984: B A Skiff discovers asteroid #4150 Starr & #4336 Jasniewicz
1984: E Bowell discovers asteroid #3677
1984: K Suzuki & T Urata discover asteroid #3165 Mikawa
1984: Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
1985: Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
1985: Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S Calif captured in East LA
1985: Prakas sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill
1986: Aeromexico DC-9 & small plane collide in LA, killing 82
1986: H Debehogne discovers asteroid #6118
1986: Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
1987: Michael Jacskon's Bad video premieres on CBS TV
1987: South Africa longest mine strike in history ends
1988: 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
1988: Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents
1988: Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches
1989: Aeromexico DC-9 collides over LA, 82 die (15 on the ground)
1989: Arbitrator T Roberts orders owners to pay $105 million for collusion
1989: C S Shoemaker & E M Shoemaker discover asteroid #6239 Minos
1990: Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season
1990: each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners
1990: East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems
1990: Ken Griffey Sr & Jr are 1st father & son to play on same team
1991: Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in
1991: Jan Berry (Jan & Dean) weds Gertie Filip
1991: Richard J Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1991: Rockies bat out of order against Expos in 1st inning
1991: the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3
1991: William H Webster, ends term as 14th director of CIA
1992: 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure, Christopher Lloyd & Dana Delane
1992: Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die
1992: Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland OH on WNCX 98.5 FM
1993: Minnesota Twins beat Cleve Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
1993: Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
1994: Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia & Latvia
1994: Northern Ireland Sinn Fein proclaims ceases-fire
1994: Pentium computer beats world chess champ Gari Kasparov
1995: R H McNaught discovers asteroid #7604
1997: Don Mattingly's #23 is retired by NY Yankees
1997: Gin Game, closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 144 performances
1997: Last episode of Rolanda airs

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