31 August

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The 31t o August is the 243t day o the year (244t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 122 days bidin.

Events

1314 - The caipital o Norawa is movit frae Bergen tae Oslo.
1422 - Henry V o Ingland dies in Fraunce. Henry VI o Ingland becomes King at the age o less nor 9 month.
1724 - King Louis I o Spain dies agit 17.
1803 - Meriwether Lewis an William Clark stairt their wastard expedeetion in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanie.
1848 - Costa Rica declares unthirldom frae the Federal Republic o Central Americae.
1876 - Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed bi his brither, Abdul Hamid II.
1897 - Initiatit bi Theodor Herzl, the Zionist Warld Congress calls for a Jewish state.
1907 - The Unitit Kinrick, Roushie an Fraunce form a Triple Entente Alliance.
1939 - Nazi Germany carries oot a staged attack on the Gleiwitz Radio Station, a day afore invading Poland.
1956 - Indie's States Reorganisation Act, reorganisin state mairches pairtally alang linguistic lines, enters intae force.
1957 - The Federation o Malaya (nou Malaysie) gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
1962 - Trinidad an Tobago gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
1965 - A Super Guppy aircraft an rocket carrier maks its first flicht.
1968 - A yirdquauk in Iran kills 12,000 fowk.
1980 - Floods in Ibadan, Nigerie, kill ower 300 fowk.
1980 - The Solidarity Movement is foondit in Gdansk, Poland.
1986 - An Aeromexico Douglas DC-9 plane wi a Piper PA-28 ower Cerritos, Californie, killin 67 fowk in the air an 15 on the groond.
1986 - The Soviet Union passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea, efter collidin wi bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killin 398 fowk.
1987 - Thai Airways Flicht 365 crashes intae the sea near the isle o Phuket, killin 83 fowk.
1990 - The plan for German unity is signed in Berlin.
1991 - Kyrgyzstan gains unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
1997 - Diana, Princess o Wales is kilt in a car crash in Paris, agit 36.
1999 - A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes durin tak-aff frae Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, Argentinae, killin 65 fowk.
2005 - A stampede on the Al-Ayma Brig in Baghdad kills awmaist 1,200 fowk.
2006 - The Scream, bi Edvard Munch, is recoverit, efter bein stolen in 2004.
2016 - Preses o Brazil Dilma Rousseff is impeached an fully removit frae affice, bein replacit bi Michel Temer.
2018 - The funeral o American soul sangster Aretha Franklin taks place in Detroit, Michigan.
2020 - Leisure centres an sports facilities in Scotland reopen as pairt o the easin o COVID-19 restrictions.
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The Unitit States reaches 6 million recordit cases o COVID-19.