Also on August 31
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Hari Kebangsaan (MY) · National Heroes Day (PH) · Summer Bank Holiday (GB)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Islamic: Urs of Shaykh Adnān Kabbāni ق major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 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. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 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
🏀 Sports on this Date
- WNBA: Connecticut Sun @ Dallas Wings — 00:30 Final
- Serie A: AS Roma @ Lecce — 16:30 Full Time
- La Liga: Getafe @ Osasuna — 17:30 Full Time
- Serie A: Bologna @ Atalanta — 18:45 Full Time
- Premier League: Arsenal @ Aston Villa — 19:00 Full Time
- La Liga: Rayo Vallecano @ Barcelona — 19:30 Full Time