AUG 31: EVENTS: • 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. • 1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan. • 1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies. • 1962 – Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent. • 1965 – The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight. • 1968 – Garfield Sobers became the first batsman ever to hit six sixes in a single over of six consecutive balls in first-class cricket. • 1991 – Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union. • 1998 – North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite. • 2005 – The record for the most number of penalty kicks (40) taken in a Penalty shootout in a football match was set during an FA Cup Preliminary Round Replay match between Tunbridge Wells and Littlehampton Town at the Culverden Stadium in England. • 2006 – Edvard Munchs famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. BIRTHDAYS: • 1663 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker • 1821 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist • 1870 – Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator • 1907 – Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain, engineer, and politician, 7th President of the Philippines • 1919 – Amrita Preetam, Indian poet and author • 1925 – Moran Campbell, English-Canadian physician and academic, invented the venturi mask • 1949 – Hugh David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate • 1953 – Pavel Vinogradov, Russian astronaut and engineer • 1965 – Willie Watson, New Zealand cricketer • 1969 – Javagal Srinath, Indian cricketer and referee • 1975 – Craig Cumming, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster • 1979 – Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian singer-songwriter • 1984 – Rajkummar Rao, Indian actor DEATH ANNIVERSARIES: • 1979 – Tiger Smith, England cricketer • 1985 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist, Nobel Prize laureate • 2002 – George Porter, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate • 2005 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate • 2012 – Kashiram Rana, Indian lawyer and politician IMPORTANT DAYS: • Day of Solidarity and Freedom (Poland) • National Language Day or Limba Noastră (Moldova) • Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Kyrgyzstan from the Soviet Union in 1991 • Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Malaya from the United Kingdom in 1957. • Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Trinidad and Tobago from the United Kingdom in 1962.
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