Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 31

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 * 1876 – Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire was deposed after a reign of 93 days on grounds of mental illness.
 * 1897 – Thomas Edison was granted a patent for the Kinetoscope, a precursor to the modern movie projector.
 * 1907 – Russia and the United Kingdom signed the Anglo-Russian Convention, defining their respective spheres of interest in Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet.
 * 1939 – Nazi forces, posing as Poles, staged an attack against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany, creating an excuse to invade Poland the next day.
 * 1940 – Second World War: Two Royal navy destroyers were lost to mines and two other vessels damaged off Texel, Netherlands, killing around 300 men.
 * 1941 – World War II: A detachment of Chetniks captured the town of Loznica in German-occupied Serbia.
 * 1959 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, failed to kill Norodom Sihanouk, Prime Minister of Cambodia.
 * 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales (pictured), her partner Dodi Fayed, and their driver were killed in a car crash in Paris.
 * 2002 – Typhoon Rusa made landfall in Goheung as the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, killing at least 236 people.
 * 2016 – Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was removed from office following her impeachment on charges of criminal administrative misconduct.
 * Born/died this day: | Aidan of Lindisfarne |d|651|Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Ta'i |d|894| Agnes Bulmer |b|1775| Robert Calder |d|1818| Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin |b|1842| Alma Mahler |b|1879| Robert Bacher |b|1905| Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi|b|1911| Frank Robinson |b|1935| Van Morrison |b|1945| Julie Maxton |b|1955| Norman Kirk |d|1974|Sara Ramirez |b|1975| Mickie James |b|1979| Manon Melis |b|1986