History for August 31 - On-This-Day.com:
Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) 0012, Arthur Godfrey 1903, Alan Jay Lerner 1918
James Coburn 1928, Itzhak Perlman 1945, Van Morrison (Them) 1945
1881 - The first tennis championships in the U.S. were played.
1887 - The kinetoscope was patented by Thomas Edison. The device was used to produce moving pictures.
1920 - The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in Detroit, MI.
1940 - Lawrence Olivier and Vivian Leigh were married.
1962 - The Caribbean nations Tobago and Trinidad became independent within the British Commonwealth.
1964 - California officially became the most populated state in America.
1965 - The Department of Housing and Urban Development was created by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
1980 - Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day strike.
1994 - A cease-fire was declared by the Irish Republican Army after 25 years of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
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