Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the Significance of August 31 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1973  John Ford, US director (Mary of Scotland, Stagecoach), dies at 78.   

1974  William Pershing Benedict, American pilot   

1975  Pierre Blaise, French actor (Lacombe Lucien), dies at 24.   

1976  Kornelis H Miskotte, theologist (If the Gods Keep Silent), dies at 81.   

1977  Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125524')   

1977  In this year, Ian Smith claims the Rhodesian general election with 80 per cent of the overwhelmingly white electorate's vote   

1978  Symbionese Liberation Army founders William and 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,.   

1979  E J "Tiger" Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper 1911-14), dies.   

1980  Poland's Solidarity labor union founded.   

1981  Joseph H Hirschhorn, US art collector/founder H Museum, dies at 82   

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 and small plane collide kill 82.   

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

1986  Henry Moore, English sculptor/cartoonist, dies at 88.   

1987  Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for the year record ($697385)   

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.   

1990  Johnny Lindsay, cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1947), dies   

1991  Leigh Watson, US aviation pioneer/air force general, dies at 93   

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

1993  Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter (communist), dies at 80.   

1994  Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist, dies at 88.   

1995  Beant Singh, PM of Punjab province of India, assassinated at 73   

1996  David Scott, priest, dies at 72   

1997  Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, dies in car crash in Paris at 36   

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 inaugural day of school for 170000 students   

2005  A crowd crush on the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad results in the deaths of 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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