August 31<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins serving his first term.<\/p>\n
1864 \u2013 Union forces led by General Sherman launch a final assault on besieged Atlanta.<\/p>\n
1870 \u2013 Maria Montessori is born in Chiaravalle, Italy<\/p>\n
1886 \u2013 A 7.0 Mw\u202f power earthquake hits southeastern South Carolina killing 60 people and causing over $6 million in damage.<\/p>\n
1888 \u2013\u00a0Jack the Ripper murders his first victim, Mary Ann Nichols<\/p>\n
1895 \u2013 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his ‘Navigable Balloon’.<\/p>\n
1897 \u2013 Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, a type of movie projector<\/p>\n
1935 \u2013 In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first Neutrality Act.<\/p>\n
1939 \u2013 Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland, precipitating the beginning of World War II.<\/p>\n
1940 \u2013 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19, a Douglas DC-3, crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The investigation of the accident is the first to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.<\/p>\n
1945 \u2013 General Douglas MacArthur establishes the Supreme Allied Command occupation headquarters in Tokyo.<\/p>\n
1950 \u2013 TWA Flight 903, a Lockheed Constellation<\/em>, crashes near Itay El Barud, Egypt while attempting to return to Cairo due to an engine fire, killing all 55 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 Rocco ‘Rocky’ Marciano along with pilot Glenn Belz and passenger Frankie Farrell, die in a small plane crash near Newton, Iowa<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 Aerom\u00e9xico Flight 498,\u00a0 a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, collides with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee<\/em> over Cerritos, California, killing all 67 passengers and crew aboard both planes, and 15 more people on the ground.<\/p>\n 1988 \u2013 Delta Air Lines Flight 1141, a Boeing 727, crashes during takeoff from Dallas\/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 2 crew members and 12 passengers of the 108 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul are killed in a car crash in Paris.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 Brazil’s President, Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 31 1776 \u2013 William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins serving his first term. 1864 \u2013 Union forces led by General Sherman launch a final assault on besieged Atlanta. 1870 \u2013 Maria Montessori is born in Chiaravalle, Italy 1886 \u2013 A 7.0 Mw\u202f power earthquake hits southeastern South Carolina killing 60 people … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58933"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95591,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58933\/revisions\/95591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}