On This Day

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31 AUGUST

1056 Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty

1142 Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League - with the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah

1945 The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies

1957 Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain

1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris

Famous Birthday's

Caligula
(12 - 41)

Commodus
(161 - 192)

Ramon Magsaysay
(1907 - 1957)

Famous Deaths

Mary Ann Nichols
(1845 - 1888)

Rocky Marciano
(1923 - 1969)

Diana Spencer
(1961 - 1997)

Famous Weddings

1940 "Wuthering Heights" actor Laurence Olivier (33) weds "Gone With The Wind" actress Vivien Leigh (26)

1940 Football player and coach Vince Lombardi (27) weds Marie Planitz at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Bronx, New York

1952 Soprano singer Leontyne Mary Violet Price (25) weds concert bass-baritone singer William Warfield (32)

1991 Musician Jan Berry (Jan & Dean) weds Gertie Filip

2010 Actress Leelee Sobieski (27) weds fashion designer Adam Kimmel in Italy

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01 SEPTEMBER

1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.

1939 World War II starts as Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig

1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David

1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan)

1951 US, Australia and New Zealand sign the ANZUS mutual defence treaty

1969 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi deposes King Idris in the Libyan revolution

Famous Birthday's

Johann Pachelbel
(1653 - 1706)

Rocky Marciano
(1923 - 1969)

Gloria Estefan
60th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Jacques Cartier
(1491 - 1557)

Louis XIV
(1638 - 1715)

William Clark
(1770 - 1838)

Famous Weddings

1730 US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin establishes a common-law marriage with Deborah Read

1843 Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald (28) weds his cousin Isabella Clark

1940 Actor Harry Morgan (25) weds Eileen Detchon

1945 Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (23) weds childhood sweetheart Jane Marie Cox

1970 "The Bee Gees" singer Barry Gibb (24) weds former Miss Edinburgh Linda Ann Gray

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02 SEPTEMBER

31 BC Battle of Actium: decisive naval battle that effectively ends the Roman Republic. Octavian's forces defeat those under Mark Antony and Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece.

1192 Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade

1792 September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

1864 Union General William T. Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during US Civil War

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp

1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (Japanese date, 1st September in US)

Famous Birthday's

Andrew Grove
(1936 - 2016)

Jimmy Connors
65th Birthday

Lennox Lewis
52nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Pheidippides
( - 490 BC)

J. R. R. Tolkien
(1892 - 1973)

Bob Denver
(1935 - 2005)

Famous Weddings

1824 US Navy flag officer David Farragut (23) weds Susan Caroline Marchant

1908 Naval officer Robert Scott (40) weds sculptress Kathleen Bruce (30) at the Chapel Royal in London, England

1922 "Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Red Berrien Upshaw

1978 George Harrison marries Olivia

1978 Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)

Famous Divorces

1960 Actress Tammy Grimes (26) divorces actor Christopher Plummer (30) after 4 years of marriage