1969 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival

1969 Boxer Rocky Marciano dies in an airplane crash in Iowa, at age 4Aug 31,

1970 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted

1970 US defeats German FR for tennis' Davis Cup

1971 Dave Scott becomes first person to drive a car on the Moon

1972 Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics

1973 The first heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)

1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')

1977 Ian Smith wins the Rhodesian general election with 80 per cent of the overwhelmingly white electorate's vote.

1978 Symbionese Liberation Army founders William & Emily Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst

1979 Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with the Sun

1979 Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador

1979 Movie actress Sally Rand dies of heart failure at age 76 in Glendora, CAug 31,

1980 Poland's Solidarity labor union founded

1984 Pinklin Thomas defeats Tim Witherspoon for the WBC heavyweight title

1985 Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S Calif captured in East LA

1986 A private plane collides with an Aeromexico jet over Cerritos, CA, killing 82 people.Aug 31,

1986 Aeromexico jet & small plane collide kill 82

1986 Soviet passenger ship Adm Nakhimov, collides with a merchant vessel

1987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for the year record ($697,385)

1988 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins

1988 A Delta Boeing 727 crashes during takeoff from Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, killing 14 passengers.

1993 Russians pull last 500 military personnel left from cold war, out of Lithuania

1999 A Boeing 737 jet crashes during takeoff from Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 72 people.

1999 Detroit area teachers begin a nine-day strike, postponing the first day of school for 170,000 students.

1888 First 'Jack the Ripper' victim discovered in Buck's Row, London

1928 The birth of James Coburn, American film actor

1945 The birth of Van Morrison, American songwriter

1955 The birth of Ed Moses, American track athlete

2005 A crowd crush on the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills several hundred civilians (see Baghdad bridge stampede).

2006 Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna are recovered in a police raid in Oslo, Norway.

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