Public Holidays on August 31

• 🌍 Hari Kebangsaan (Malaysia)
• 🌍 National Heroes Day (Philippines)
• 🌍 Summer Bank Holiday (United Kingdom)

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Religious Observances on August 31

• Islamic: Urs of Shaykh Adnān Kabbāni ق

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On This Day in History — August 31

• 2016 — Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office.
• 2006 — Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
• 2005 — The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 953 people.
• 1999 — The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
• 1999 — A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
• 1997 — Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.

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Notable Births on August 31

• 1994 — Alex Harris, Scottish footballer
• 1993 — Pablo Marí, Spanish football player
• 1993 — Ilnur Alshin, Russian football player
• 1993 — Anna Karnaukh, Russian water polo player
• 1992 — Tyler Randell, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 — António Félix da Costa, Portuguese race car driver

Notable Deaths on August 31

• 2015 — Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, English politician, founded the National Motor Museum (b. 1926)
• 2015 — Tom Scott, American football player (b. 1930)
• 2014 — Bapu, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 2014 — Ștefan Andrei, Romanian politician, 87th Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1931)
• 2014 — Stan Goldberg, American illustrator (b. 1932)
• 2014 — Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1945)

Public Holidays on September 1

• 🌍 Quốc khánh (Vietnam)

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On This Day in History — September 1

• 2004 — The Crisis in Beslan commences when armed terrorists take schoolchildren and school staff hostage in North Ossetia (Russia); by the end of the siege three days later more than 385 people are dead (including hostages,...
• 1991 — Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1985 — A joint American-French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
• 1983 — Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
• 1982 — The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
• 1981 — A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.

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Notable Births on September 1

• 1996 — Zendaya Stoermer Coleman, American actress and singer
• 1995 — Nathan MacKinnon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1994 — Anna Smolina, Russian tennis player
• 1994 — Betty Cantrell, Miss America 2016
• 1993 — Mario Lemina, Gabonese footballer
• 1992 — Cristiano Biraghi, Italian footballer

Notable Deaths on September 1

• 2015 — Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Armenian general (b. 1926)
• 2015 — Dean Jones, American actor and singer (b. 1931)
• 2015 — Richard G. Hewlett, American historian and author (b. 1923)
• 2015 — Ben Kuroki, American sergeant and pilot (b. 1917)
• 2014 — Ahmed Abdi Godane, Somali militant leader (b. 1977)
• 2014 — Rogers McKee, American baseball player (b. 1926)