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1303Aug 31The War of Vespers in Sicily ended with an agreement between Charles of Valois, who invaded the country, and Frederick, the ruler of Sicily.
1385Aug 31English King Richard the Second invaded Scotland with a force estimated at 80-thousand men.
1512Aug 31Giuliano de Medici became the new governor of Florence.
1535Aug 31Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII.
1667Aug 31Johann Rist, composer, died at 60.
1751Aug 31English troops under sir Robert Clive occupied Arcot, India.
1756Aug 31The British at Fort William Henry, New England, surrendered to Louis Montcalm of France.
1778Aug 31British killed 17 Stockbridge Indians in Bronx during Revolution.
1802Aug 31Captain Meriwether Lewis left Pittsburgh to meet up with Captain William Clark and begin their trek to the Pacific Ocean.
1804Aug 31Lewis and Clark held a council with local Sioux Indian chiefs in what is now eastern North Dakota.
1819Aug 31A naval battle took place between United States Revenue Cutter Service cutters and one of Jean Lafitte’s pirate ships off southern Florida.
1829Aug 31Gioacchino Rossini’s final opera “William Tell” was produced in Paris.
1832Aug 31Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer, died at 53.
1842Aug 31Micah Rugg patented a nuts & bolts machine.
1864Aug 31Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesboro Georgia, 1900 casualties.
1876Aug 31Abdul Hamid II succeeded Murad V as the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman House of Osman. His ruled continued to April 27, 1909.
1881Aug 31The first U.S. tennis championships (for men) were played, in Newport, R.I
1887Aug 31Inventor Thomas A. Edison received a patent for his Kinetoscope,” a device which produced moving pictures.
1897Aug 31Thomas Edison patented his movie camera (Kinetograph).
1897Aug 31General Kitchener occupied Berber, North of Khartoum.
1907Aug 31England, Russia and France formed their Triple Entente.
1909Aug 31The A.J. Reach Co. patented the cork-centered baseball.
1914Aug 31Germany defeated Russia at the battle at Tannenberg. Some 30,000 Russians died.
1935Aug 31President Roosevelt signed an act prohibiting the export of U.S. arms to belligerents.
1940Aug 31US National Guard assembled.
1942Aug 31The British army under General Bernard Law Montgomery defeated Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the Battle of Alam Halfa in Egypt.
1944Aug 31The French provisional government moved from Algiers to Paris.
1950Aug 31Three North Korean divisions opened an assault on UN lines on the Naktong River in a push to take Pusan.
1951Aug 31The 1st 33 1/3 (LP) album was introduced in Dusseldorf.
1954Aug 31Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern United States, resulting in nearly 70 deaths and millions of dollars in damage.
1959Aug 31Australia defeated the US for tennis’ Davis Cup.
1962Aug 31The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent within the British Commonwealth. Eric Williams, a Marxist historian, led the country to independence.
1965Aug 31The US House of Reps joined Senate to establish Dept of Housing & Uran Develop.
1969Aug 31Boxer Rocky Marciano died in a light airplane crash in Iowa, the day before his 46th birthday.
1971Aug 31John Lennon left UK for NYC, never to return.
1972Aug 31At the Munich Summer Olympics American swimmer Mark Spitz won his fourth and fifth gold medals, in the 100-meter butterfly and 800-meter freestyle relay.
1976Aug 31George Harrison (1943-2001) was found guilty of plagiarizing “My Sweet Lord.”
1978Aug 31Emily and William Harris, founding members of the SLA, pleaded guilty to 4 charges related to the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst. On Oct 4 they were sentenced to prison terms.
1979Aug 31Sally Rand (b.1904), exotic dancer and actress, died.
1981Aug 31Joseph H. Hirschhorn (b.1899), Latvia-born US art collector and founder the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, DC, died at 82.
1985Aug 31Richard Ramirez, later convicted of California’s “Night Stalker” killings, was captured by residents of an East Los Angeles neighborhood.
1990Aug 31East & West Germany signed a treaty to join legal & political systems.
1993Aug 31Mideast peace talks resumed in Washington amid hopes that a historic agreement to establish Palestinian autonomous areas would be concluded within days.
1994Aug 31In the London Intel Speed Chess Grand Prix a Pentium computer beat world chess champ Gari Kasparov.
1995Aug 31At the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles, Judge Lance Ito ruled the defense could play only two examples of police detective Mark Fuhrman’s racist comments from taped conversations with a screenwriter.
1996Aug 31In Austria the country’s first gay wedding took place in the Evangelical Church in Vienna’s Simmering district.
1998Aug 31President Clinton left for a summit in Russia, which was in a state of political chaos over lawmakers’ rejection of Boris Yeltsin’s candidate for prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin.
1999Aug 31Detroit’s teachers went on strike, wiping out the first day of class for 172-thousand students in one of the largest teachers’ strikes in years. The walkout lasted nine days.
2000Aug 31President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have gradually repealed inheritance taxes, saying it would have benefited the wealthiest Americans while threatening the nation’s financial well being.
2001Aug 31Little League star Danny Almonte’s perfect game and his Bronx, N.Y., team’s third-place World Series finish were ruled invalid after officials in the Dominican Republic, where Danny was born, determined he was 14 years old, not 12.
2002Aug 31The Los Angeles Sparks beat the New York Liberty 69-66 to defend their WNBA championship.
2003Aug 31In Gerlach, Nevada, the “Temple of Honor” by David Best went up in flames. Some 30,500 people attended the weeklong “Burning Man” event.
2004Aug 31Arnold Schwarzenegger and Laura Bush spoke on the 2nd night of the Republican Convention in NYC as police arrested nearly 1,000 demonstrators.
2005Aug 31Theodore Sarbin (b.1911), noted UC Berkeley psychology professor, died. In 1990 he co-wrote the report “Gays in Uniform: The Pentagon’s Secret Reports,” which prompted Pres. Clinton’s policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
2006Aug 31In California Tony J. Daniloo (32) of Turlock was indicted on 122 charges of fraud and money laundering for allegedly embezzling $7 million from homeowners in the East Bay and the Central Valley.
2007Aug 31Mike Nifong, the disgraced former district attorney of Durham County, N.C., was sentenced to a day in jail after being held in criminal contempt of court for lying to a judge when pursuing rape charges against three falsely accused Duke University lacrosse players.
2008Aug 31John McCain, GOP presidential nominee, directed party officials to drastically scale back plans for their convention, set to begin Sep 1 in St. Paul, Minn., and refocus efforts on helping potential victims of Hurricane Gustav.
2009Aug 31In southern California fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander was sentenced to 59 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting aspiring models he lured to Los Angeles.
2010Aug 31In Arkansas a medical helicopter crashed in Van Burn County killing 3 crew members trying to reach a person injured in a traffic accident.
2011Aug 31Nebraska governor Dave Heineman urged Pres. Obama’s administration to deny a key permit for TransCanada’s Keystone XL crude oil pipeline from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas on the grounds that the line could put the Ogallala Aquifer at risk
2012Aug 31The US Fish and Wildlife announced the end of protections for wolves in most of Wyoming. Protections remained in some areas such as Yellowstone National Park.
2013Aug 31President Barack Obama said that he would seek Congress approval for a military strike on Syria.
2014Aug 31In Colorado a Piper PA-46 airplane crashed near an airport north of Denver killing all 5 people onboard.
  

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