Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 31

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  Henry VI of England
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  Sultan Abdul Hamid II
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  Pont de l'Alma road tunnel
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  Aerso Spacelines Super Guppy
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  1925 photo of the Admiral Nakhimov sailing under her original name Berlin III
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  Cartoon of Jack the Ripper as a phantom stalking Whitechapel
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  Interior view of a Kinetoscope with peephole viewer
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  Dilma Rousseff

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Kyrgyzstan (1991) and Trinidad and Tobago (1962)	Kyrgyzstan: recentism, advertisement section and too many citations missing; T&T: unreferenced sections
National Heroes' Day in the Philippines (2020)	Link points to a one-paragraph section of another article. Not enough material to warrant main-page link.
1056 – After a sudden illness a few days prior, Byzantine Empress Theodora Porphyrogenita died without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty.	appears on January 11
1422 – As the only heir to the throne, [[Henry VI of England|Template:Nowrap]] became King of England at the age of eight months following the death of his father [[Henry V of England|Template:Nowrap]].	unreferenced section
1813 – Peninsular War: At the Battle of San Marcial, the Spanish Army of Galicia under Manuel Alberto Freire turned back Nicolas Soult's last major offensive against Arthur Wellesley's allied army.	lots of CN tags relative to length (4)
1876 – Abdul Hamid II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire when his brother Template:Nowrap was deposed.	refimprove section
1907 – Russia and the United Kingdom signed the Anglo-Russian Convention, defining their respective spheres of interest in Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet.	Yellow "No page references" banner
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: Polish forces, led by their cavalry, defeated the Bolshevik Red Army in the Battle of Komarów.	refimprove
1935 – In an effort to stay out of the growing European conflict, the U.S. Congress passed the first of the Neutrality Acts.	Referencing issues
1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia, one of the two major Australian political parties, was founded to replace the United Australia Party.	refimprove section
1965 – The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy, a large, wide-bodied cargo aircraft used for ferrying outsized cargo components, made its first flight.	refimprove section
1978 – Musa al-Sadr, the Iranian-born Shia cleric and then religious leader of Lebanon, disappeared during an official visit to Libya.	page numbers needed
1982 – Anti-government demonstrations took place in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement, which allowed the establishment of the Solidarity trade union.	unreferenced date
1986 – After a collision with a freighter, the Soviet ocean liner Admiral Nakhimov sank in the Tsemes Bay area of the Black Sea within seven minutes, killing more than 400 people on board.	refimprove
1986 – Aeroméxico Flight 498 collided with a privately owned Piper PA-28 Cherokee aircraft over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.	external links
1992 – The one-party Marxist rule in the Republic of the Congo officially ended when Pascal Lissouba was inaugurated as its president after a multi-party election.	date not in article, refimprove section
1998 – North Korea claimed to have successfully launched its first satellite, [[Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1|Template:Nowrap]], although no objects were ever tracked in orbit from the launch.	referencing issues
1999 – The first of a series of bombings in Moscow killed one person and wounded 40 others.	refimprove section
2005 – Up to 1,000 people died following a stampede on the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad, the biggest loss of life in Iraq in one day since the 2003 invasion.	multiple issues
2016 – Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff (pictured) was removed from office following her impeachment on charges of criminal administrative misconduct.	Orange "neutrality" banner
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Ta'i |d|894|	Fan POV tag
Ahmed Zayat |b|1962|	Birthday not cited
Queen Rania of Jordan |b|1970|	Fan POV tag

Eligible

• 1218 – Al-Kamil became the fourth sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt.
• 1888 – The body of Mary Ann Nichols, the alleged first victim of an unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper (pictured), was found in Buck's Row, London.
• 1897 – Thomas Edison was granted a patent for the Kinetoscope, a precursor to the modern movie projector.
• 1940 – Second World War: Two Royal navy destroyers were lost to mines and two other vessels damaged off Texel, Netherlands, killing around 300 men.
• 1941 – World War II: A detachment of Chetniks captured the town of Loznica in German-occupied Serbia.
• 1942 – The Matagorda hurricane, the most intense and costliest tropical cyclone of the 1942 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated after causing $26.5 million in damages and eight deaths.
• 1969 – On the final day of the Isle of Wight Festival 1969, attended by approximately 150,000 people over three days, Bob Dylan appeared in his first gig in three years.
• 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales (pictured), her partner Dodi Fayed, and their driver were killed in a car crash in Paris.
• 2002 – Typhoon Rusa made landfall in Goheung as the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, killing at least 236 people.
• 2019 – A sightseeing helicopter crashed in the mountains of Skoddevarre in Alta, Norway, killing all six people on board.
• Born/died this day: | Aidan of Lindisfarne |d|651| Robert Calder |d|1818| Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin |b|1842| Alma Mahler|b|1879| Robert Bacher |b|1905| Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi|b|1911| Frank Robinson |b|1935| Van Morrison |b|1945| Julie Maxton |b|1955| Tamara Bunke |d|1967| Norman Kirk |d|1974| Sara Ramirez |b|1975| Mickie James |b|1979| Manon Melis |b|1986| Feng Tianwei |b|1986| William McAloney|d|1995|

Notes

• Invasion of Poland appears on September 1, so Gleiwtiz incident should not appear in the same year
• History of Solidarity appears on September 17, so Gdańsk Agreement/1982 demonstrations in Poland should not appear in the same year

August 31: Independence Day in Malaysia (1957); Romanian Language Day in Moldova and Romania Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1814 – War of 1812: American militia forces repelled a British force at the Battle of Caulk's Field, killing 41 people including Captain Peter Parker of the Royal Navy.
• 1876 – Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire was deposed after a reign of 93 days on grounds of mental illness.
• 1939 – Nazi forces, posing as Poles, staged an attack against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany, creating an excuse to invade Poland the next day.
• 1959 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu (pictured), younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, failed to kill Norodom Sihanouk, Prime Minister of Cambodia.
• 2010 – The last episode of The Bill, the longest-running police drama in British television history, was broadcast.