August 31 Holidays

✡️ 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. ↗

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🎂 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