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Daily Calendar for Friday, August 31, 2018 | Almanac.com

Daily Calendar for Friday, August 31, 2018

Died

  • Henry V of England –
  • Rocky Marciano (boxer) –
  • John Ford (film director) –
  • Princess Diana (killed in a car accident in Paris) –
  • Lionel Hampton (jazz musician) –
  • Tom Seaver (baseball player ) –

Born

  • Baron Lisgar (2nd Canadian Governor General 1869 - 1872.) –
  • Maria Montessori (doctor and founder of the Montessori method of education) –
  • Buddy Hackett (actor & comedian) –
  • Van Morrison (singer) –
  • Itzhak Perlman (violinist) –
  • Richard Gere (actor) –
  • Chris Tucker (actor) –
  • Sara Ramirez (singer and actress) –

Events

  • Honolulu was declared the capital of the Hawaiian Islands–
  • A deadly 7.3 (estimated) moment magnitude earthquake occurred in Charleston, South Carolina–
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Neutrality Act of 1935, prohibiting the export from the U.S. of arms, ammunitions or implements of war to any belligerent state–
  • Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh married–
  • National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame chartered, in Bonner Springs, Kansas–
  • Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collided with the Sun–

Weather

  • Hurricane Emily lashed the Outer Banks of North Carolina–

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