August 31

People born on this day are Virgo.

On this day in history01

1996
Saddam Hussein's troops seize Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
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1997
Diana, Princess of Wales, her partner, Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
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1999
The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
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1999
A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
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2002
Typhoon Rusa, the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, makes landfall, killing at least 236 people.
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2005
The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 953 people.
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2006
Edvard Munch's famous painting, The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
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2016
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office.
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2019
A sightseeing helicopter crashes in the mountains of Skoddevarre in Alta, Norway, killing all six people on board.
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2024
A helicopter crashes in Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East, killing all 22 occupants.
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2025
A landslide in the Darfur region of Sudan kills over 1000 people.
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2025
An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan kills over 1400 people.
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