On This Day:
Saturday August 31, 2013 This is the 243rd day of the year, with 122 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: dice Dice, the oldest gaming implements known to man, are small cubes whose sides are each marked with a different number of dots (spots) from one to six. Archaeological finds show that dice were used in ancient times and were originally magical devices used to divine the future. Cubical dice with markings practically equivalent to those of modern dice have been found in Chinese excavations from 600 BC and in Egyptian tombs dating from 2000 BC.
Holidays Kyrgyzstan: Independence Day.
Malaysia: Hari Kebangsaan / Freedom Day.
Trinidad and Tobago: Independence Day.
Kazakhstan: Constitution Day.
Moldova: National Language Day.
Feast Day of St. Paulinus of Trier, St. Aidan of Lindisfarne, St. Raymond Nonnatus, and The Servite Martyrs of Prague.
Events 1521 - Cortes captured the city of Tenochtitlan, Mexico, and set it on fire.
1887 - Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope, the forerunner of the motion picture camera.
1888 - The body of Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, the first victim of Jack the Ripper, was found mutilated in Buck's Row, London.
1903 - A Packard auto completed the first transcontinental road trip.
1939 - Nazi leader Adolf Hitler signed an order to attack Poland, and German forces moved to the frontier.
1961 - A concrete wall replaced the barbed wire fence that separated East Germany and West Germany -- the Berlin Wall.
1962 - The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent within the British Commonwealth.
1980 - The Polish trade union Solidarity was formed in Gdansk.
1990 - East Germany and West Germany signed a reunification treaty.
1991 - Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1998 - North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite.
1999 - A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground.
2006 - Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
Births 1880 - Wilhelmina, Dutch queen (1890-1948).
1897 - Fredric March (Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel), American Academy Award-winning actor.
1908 - William Saroyan, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.
1918 - Alan Jay Lerner, American songwriter, lyricist.
1924 - Buddy Hackett (born Leonard Hackett), American actor and comedian.
1935 - Eldridge Cleaver, American black activist.
1945 - Itzhak Perlman, Israeli violinist.
1945 - Van Morrison (born George Ivan Morrison), Irish musician.
1949 - Richard Gere, American actor.
Deaths 1969 - Rocky Marciano, American world heavyweight boxing champion.
1973 - John Ford (Sean Aloysius O'feeney), American film director.
1974 - Norman Kirk, New Zealand prime minister.
1997 - Diana, princess of Wales, from injuries in a car accident, along with her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul.
2002 - Lionel Hampton, American jazz musician and bandleader.
2006 - Tom Delaney, British race car driver.
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