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August 31: Day of the Week
August 31, 2024 is the 244th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 122 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.
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Here’s the August calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
August 31 Historical Event(s)
1895
German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
1941
World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
1963
Sarawak, North Borneo and Singapore achieve technical independence pending accession to the Federation of Malaysia
1982
Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement.
1986
Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1992
Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
1996
Saddam Hussein’s troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
2005
A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2006
Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
2010
The last episode of The Bill, the longest-running police procedural television series in the United Kingdom, is aired on ITV1.
Who were born on August 31?
1822
Galusha A. Grow, American politician (d. 1907)
1900
Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1943)
1924
Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (d. 2003)
1946
Jerome Corsi, American writer
1948
Holger Osieck, German footballer and coach
1955
Anthony Thistlethwaite, musician, member of The Waterboys and The Saw Doctors
1966
Jan Einar Thorsen, Norwegian alpine skier
1970
Nikola Gruevski, 6th Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia
1977
Jeff Hardy, American wrestler
1979
Ramón Santiago, Dominican baseball player
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