Various events that happened on August 31

The significant events of daily life become history in time. Those events take place there, which are good, which are first, which are the curse-blessing of mankind.

The agenda of history has always been important to people. Keeping this importance in mind, Bangladesh regularly organizes 'Today's History' for its readers.

Today is 31 August 2024, Saturday. Take a look at the important events that happened on this day in history, birth and death dates of prominent people and other important things.

event report

1848 – Newspapers begin printing weather reports for the first time.

1858 – The British government took over the administration of India from the East India Company.

1905 – Bengal Partition Bill is passed.

1907 – The Anglo-Russian Treaty of Alliance was signed between England and Russia.

1957 – Malaysia gains independence.

1959 – 80 people are killed when Indian Congress government fires at a farmers' march demanding food in Calcutta.

1962 – The Latin American country of Trinidad and Tobago gained independence from British colonial rule.

1963 – Hot line established between the Kremlin and the White House.

1965 – The Malaysian national flag is first raised in the UK.

1968 – India-made satellite 'Rohini' launched.

1968 – A deadly earthquake in Khorasan, Iran kills 18,000.

1971 – Musician Altaf Mahmood was killed by the Pakistan Army.

1975 – Recognition of Bangladesh by the People's Republic of China.

1991 – The former Soviet Union Republic of Kyrgyzstan gains independence.

2005 – Nearly 1,000 Iraqis are tragically killed in a mourning ceremony in the Iraqi city of Kazamein.

the birth

0012 – Caligula, Roman Emperor.

0161 – Commodus, Roman Emperor.

1821 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist.

1913 – Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer.

1936 – Vladimir Orlov, Russian writer.

1843 – Georg von Hertling, German academic, politician and 7th Chancellor.

1870 – Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator, best known for the educational philosophy she founded under her name – the “Montessori Method of Education”.

1879 – Alma Mahler, Austrian-born American composer and painter.

1888 – Kanailal Dutt, one of the leading figures in the anti-British independence movement in the Indian subcontinent and revolutionary of the Agni Age.

1897 – Frederick March, American lieutenant, actor and singer.

1907 – Ramón del Fierro Magsaysay, Filipino captain, engineer, politician and 7th president.

1919 – Amrita Pritam, Indian poet and writer.

1928 – James Harrison Coburn, American actor.

1944 – Clive Lloyd, former West Indies cricketer.

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1949 – H. David Politzer, Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist.

1949 – Richard Gere, American actor and producer.

1960 – Hassan Nasrullah, third secretary-general of Hezbollah, the Lebanese political and paramilitary organization.

1963 – Rituparna Ghosh, famous Indian Bengali filmmaker.

1969 – Javagal Srinath, former Indian cricketer.

1970 – Nikola Gruevski, Macedonian economist, politician and 6th Prime Minister.

1977 – Jeff Hardy, American wrestler and singer.

1982 – Pepe Reina, Spanish football player.

1985 – Rolando Jorge Pires da Fonseca, Portuguese footballer.

death

1422 – Henry V, King of England.

1688 – John Bunyan, English preacher, theologian and writer.

1795 – François-André Dunican Philidor, French-born English chess player and composer.

1811 – Louis Antonio de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer.

1814 – Arthur Philip, English admiral, politician and 1st Governor of New South Wales.

1864 – Ferdinand Lassalle, German judge, philosopher, and socialist political activist.

1867 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet.

1920 – Wilhelm Unt, German physician, psychologist and philosopher.

1941 – Marina Tsvetava, Russian poet and writer.

1963 – Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor.

1971 – Vasishwar Sen, famous Indian Bengali agricultural scientist.

1973 – John Ford, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter.

1985 – Frank Macfarlane Barnett, Nobel Prize-winning biologist.

1986 – Urho Kekonen, Finnish journalist, lawyer, politician and 8th president.

1993 – Stella Kramrisch, Austrian-born American historian and curator known primarily for her work on the history of Indian art.

1997 – Princess Diana, former Princess of the United Kingdom.

2002 – George Porter, Nobel Prize-winning English chemist.

2005 – Joseph Rotblatt, Nobel Prize-winning Polish-born English physicist.

2008 – Ken Campbell, English writer, actor, director and comedian.

2013 – David Paradine Frost, English chemist and academic.

2020 – His Excellency Pranab Mukherjee, the first Bengali and 13th President of India.

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