# 31 August-Today's Historical Events (1900-2017)

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1900 British troops overrun 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

1904 24th U.S. Men's National Championship: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (10-8, 6-4, 9-7)

1905 Mbunga rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East Africa

1905 25th U.S. Men's National Championship: Beals Wright beats Holcombe Ward (6-2, 6-1, 11-9)

1907 Britain & Russia sign the treaty with Afghanistan, Persia & Tibet

1907 Britain, Russia & France form Triple Entente

1907 Anglo-Russian Entente

1909 AJ Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball

1909 Thure Johnstown wins Stockholm marathon (2:40:34.2)

1911 The "Sullivan Act" requiring New Yorkers to possess licenses for firearms small enough to be concealed comes into effect

1911 Anthony Fokker's demonstrates aircraft "Snip"

1913 Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven, Netherlands

1913 Massive protest rally on Sackville Street attacked by the Dublin Metropolitan Police; two strikers killed by the police

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 Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

1915 Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0

1915 Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

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 Italian troops occupy Corfu

1935 Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 105 tons of cabbages in 6 hours

1937 Det's rookie Rudy York sets record for HRs of 18 HRs in August

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 the radio station in Gleiwitz

1940 1st edition of illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands

1940 RAF Fighter Command loses 39 aircraft against Luftwaffe's 41

1940 German occupiers in the Netherlands begin soap rationing

1940 US National Guard assembles

1941 Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC

1942 Battle at Alam Halfa: German & Italians assault

1942 U-boats sink and damage 131 allied ships this month (639,946 tons)

1943 1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: US assault on Marcus Island

1943 Japanese occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Trabajo

1944 Allied offensive at "Gothen-line" Italy

1944 French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris

1944 French troops liberate Bordeaux

1944 Soviet & Romanian troops march into Bucharest

1946 Foghorn Leghorn, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Robert McKimson and Warren Foster, (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Walky Talky Hawky"

1947 Hungarian communist party wins the election

1947 NY Giants set the season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221)

1948 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates the golden jubilee

1951 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf

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 Hurricane Carol hits New England, 70 dies, Costliest ever hurricane at the time and 1st storm name to be retired.

1954 Indians beat Yanks 6-1 for record-tying 26 wins in August (1931 A's)

1954 WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins

1954 Cincinnati 1st baseman Ted Kluszewski hits 2 HRs in a 9-3 loss v Phillies; 1st Redleg to ever hit 40 MLB HRs, en route to the season total 49

1955 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated (Chicago, Illinois)

1955 KTRE TV channel 9 begins broadcasting in Lufkin, Texas (ABC/NBC affiliate)

1959 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats the 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)

1964 Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels

1965 US Congress establishes Department of Housing & Urban Development

1965 The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight.

1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)

1966 "The Battle of Algiers", directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, starring Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, premieres at the Vienna International Film Festival

1968 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran

1968 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher

1968 Roy Face ties W Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with the club

1968 Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr. X) in Minn, to become NWA champ

1968 Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over.

1969 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival

1970 59th Davis Cup: the 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 the girl, 14

1970 WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting

1971 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)

1971 An inquiry into allegations of brutality by the security forces against those interned without trial in Northern Ireland is announced

1972 Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)

1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut wins balance beam & floor exercise gold medals at the Munich Olympics; follows gold in the teams all-round

1972 American super swimmer Mark Spitz wraps up the Olympic butterfly double with a world record 54.27 in the 100m in Munich, having already won the 200m in world record time 2:00.70

1972 American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of John Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter & Mark Spitz swim a world record 7:35.78 to beat West Germany for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics

1972 Australian swimmer Gail Neall with a world record 5:02.97 wins the 400m individual medley gold medal at the Munich Olympics

1973 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)

1973 PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony

1974 Pirate Radio Veronica moves into Scheveningen harbor

1976 Mexican peso devalued

1976 Trinidad & Tobago adopts the constitution

1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')

1977 Spyros Kyprianou appointed the president of Cyprus

1977 Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins the Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote

1978 Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka

1978 Emily & William Harris plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst

1978 US performs the nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1979 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open Tennis

1979 Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun

1979 Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as US UN ambassador

1979 Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green

1980 "Oklahoma!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 301 performances

1980 80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton

1980 Poland's Solidarity trade union federations forms and is officially recognized by the Polish government

1980 The Gdańsk Agreement is signed.

1981 Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord's

1981 Royals manager Jim Frey is fired & replaced by Dick Howser

1982 USSR performs the underground nuclear test

1983 Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz

1983 40th Venice Film Festival: "First Name: Carmen" directed by Jean-Luc Godard wins Golden Lion

1984 Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1985 "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Illinois

1985 Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M

1985 Night Stalker suspect that terrorized California captured in East Los Angeles

1986 Aeromexico DC-9 & small plane collide in LA, killing 82 (15 on the ground)

1986 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die

1987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)

1987 South Africa's 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 the office of South Africa Council of Churches

1989 Arbitrator T Roberts orders owners to pay $105 million for collusion

1990 Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season

1990 East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems

1990 Ken Griffey Sr & Jr are 1st father & son to play on the same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners

1991 Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3

1991 Richard J Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1991 Rockies bat out of order against Expos in the 1st inning

1991 William H. Webster ends term as 14th director of CIA

1992 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure, Christopher Lloyd & Dana Delane win

1992 Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die

1992 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland, Ohio on WNCX 98.5 FM

1993 Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings

1993 Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees

1993 HMS Mercury, the Royal Navy's communications training establishment, closes after 52 years in commission.

1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland

1997 "Gin Game" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 144 performances

1997 Don Mattingly's #23 is retired by NY Yankees

1997 Last episode of Rolanda airs

1997 Scott Hoch wins Greater Milwaukee Golf Open with a 268

1997 Eddie George runs for 216 yards on 35 carries and scores a touchdown as the Oilers, playing their first NFL game in Tennessee, beat Oakland 24-21 in overtime at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis

1998 North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite.

1999 The first of a series of apartment bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.

1999 A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground.

2005 A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.

2005 62nd Venice Film Festival: "Brokeback Mountain" directed by Ang Lee wins Golden Lion

2016 Brazilian Senate votes to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, removing her from office

2017 International Organization for Migration states 18,500 Rohingya Muslims have fled from violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state after 110 deaths, making for Bangladesh

2017 Indications Neanderthals were the first to make glue out of tar strengthened by research published in "Scientific Reports"

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