August 31 in history
Events on August 31
Notable events that happened on August 31 in past years.
- 2025
A landslide in the Darfur region of Sudan kills over 1000 people.
Wikipedia article: 2025 Tarasin landslide - 2016
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office.
Wikipedia article: Dilma Rousseff - 1999
The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
Wikipedia article: 1999 Russian apartment bombings - 1994
Russia completes removing its troops from Estonia.
Wikipedia article: Estonia - 1991
Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
Wikipedia article: Kyrgyzstan - 1986
Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
Wikipedia article: Aeroméxico Flight 498 - 1963
Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah) achieves self-governance.
Wikipedia article: Crown Colony of North Borneo - 1950
TWA Flight 903 crashes near Itay El Barud, Egypt, killing all 55 aboard.
Wikipedia article: TWA Flight 903 - 1940
Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
Wikipedia article: Lovettsville air disaster - 1933
The Integral Nationalist Group wins the 1933 Andorran parliamentary election, the first election in Andorra held with universal male suffrage.
Wikipedia article: 1933 Andorran parliamentary election - 1895
German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
Wikipedia article: Ferdinand von Zeppelin - 1876
Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother, Abdul Hamid II.
Wikipedia article: List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire - 1795
War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
Wikipedia article: War of the First Coalition - 1420
The 8.8–9.4 Caldera earthquake shakes Chile's Atacama Region causing tsunami in Chile, Hawaii, and Japan.
- 1056
After a sudden gastric illness, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
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