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On This Day 31st August
1945: Born Van Morrison (Them).
1949: Richard Gere, the star of such hit films as An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman and Chicago, is born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
1952: Born Rudolph Schenker (Scorpions).
1954: Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die.
1955: Born Anthony Thistlewaite (The Waterboys).
1959: Australia defeats US for tennis' Davis Cup.
1962: The Caribbean nations Tobago and Trinidad became independent within the British Commonwealth.
1964: California officially became the most populated state in America.
1969: The boxer Rocky Marciano died in an airplane crash in Iowa.
1070: Born Debbie Gibson.
1975: 13th December Avenue in Marsa (Malta) is officially opened by President Anthony Mamo.
1987: Michael Jackson's "Bad" video was televised for the first time on CBS-TV.
1989: Great Britain's Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announced that they were separating. The marriage was 16 years old.
1991: Uzbekistan and Kirghiziz declared their independence from the Soviet Union. They were the 9th and 10th republics to announce their plans to
secede.
1993: Russia withdrew its last soldiers from Lithuania.
1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in Paris' Pitie-Salpetiere Hospital after suffering massive chest injuries in an early morning car
accident. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, was killed instantly in the 12:25 a.m. crash, as was driver Henri Paul, who was drunk and lost
control of the Mercedes in a highway underpass. He was driving at excessive speeds in a reckless attempt to escape paparazzi photographers.
1998: "Titanic" became the first movie in North America to earn more than $600 million.
1998: Madonna filed suit against the YMCA to prevent it from building a high-rise residential tower near Lincoln Center in New York City.
1999: At least 69 people were killed when a Boeing 737 crashed just after take off in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2001: An ash plume originating from Mt. Etna in Sicily hits Malta.
2005: Toby Keith announced that he was starting his own label named Show Dog Nashville Records
1949: Richard Gere, the star of such hit films as An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman and Chicago, is born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
1952: Born Rudolph Schenker (Scorpions).
1954: Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die.
1955: Born Anthony Thistlewaite (The Waterboys).
1959: Australia defeats US for tennis' Davis Cup.
1962: The Caribbean nations Tobago and Trinidad became independent within the British Commonwealth.
1964: California officially became the most populated state in America.
1969: The boxer Rocky Marciano died in an airplane crash in Iowa.
1070: Born Debbie Gibson.
1975: 13th December Avenue in Marsa (Malta) is officially opened by President Anthony Mamo.
1987: Michael Jackson's "Bad" video was televised for the first time on CBS-TV.
1989: Great Britain's Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announced that they were separating. The marriage was 16 years old.
1991: Uzbekistan and Kirghiziz declared their independence from the Soviet Union. They were the 9th and 10th republics to announce their plans to
secede.
1993: Russia withdrew its last soldiers from Lithuania.
1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in Paris' Pitie-Salpetiere Hospital after suffering massive chest injuries in an early morning car
accident. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, was killed instantly in the 12:25 a.m. crash, as was driver Henri Paul, who was drunk and lost
control of the Mercedes in a highway underpass. He was driving at excessive speeds in a reckless attempt to escape paparazzi photographers.
1998: "Titanic" became the first movie in North America to earn more than $600 million.
1998: Madonna filed suit against the YMCA to prevent it from building a high-rise residential tower near Lincoln Center in New York City.
1999: At least 69 people were killed when a Boeing 737 crashed just after take off in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2001: An ash plume originating from Mt. Etna in Sicily hits Malta.
2005: Toby Keith announced that he was starting his own label named Show Dog Nashville Records
