On This Day:
Sunday August 31, 2014 This is the 243rd day of the year, with 122 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: forest In a forest, the air is always slightly warmer in cold months and cooler in warm months than the air in surrounding regions (evaporation and transpiration control the temperature).
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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