What happened on August 31?

August 31 is day 243 of the year, day 244 in leap years. On 31 August 1990, the Unification Treaty was signed in Berlin on the road to German reunification. As early as 1928, The Threepenny Opera had its premiere, and in 1870 the Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori was born. Here are the defining moments of this day.

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Events on August 31

1819 The Karlsbad Decrees bring a ministerial congress to a close. The recommendations to the German Bundestag provide for drastic restrictions on university freedom and freedom of the press. The monarchical principle is consolidated, and the prosecution of demagogues is sought.
1928 The Threepenny Opera premieres at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin.
1939 The raid on the Gleiwitz radio station by SS members marks the culmination of Hitler's policy of escalation toward Poland and provides the justification for the attack on Poland the following morning.
1951 Deutsche Grammophon, the first German manufacturer, also releases long-playing records with 33⅓ revolutions per minute.
1952 At least 13 people die in one of the most serious accidents in international motorsport history on the Grenzlandring.
1980 The birth of Solidarity: Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jagielski and strike leader Wałęsa sign the August Accord in Gdańsk.
1990 The Unification Treaty is signed in Berlin on the road to German reunification.
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, is involved in a car accident in a tunnel in Paris shortly after midnight together with her partner Dodi Al-Fayed. Both die from their injuries the same day.
1998 Südwestrundfunk begins operations. The SWR emerged from the merger of Südwestfunk and Süddeutscher Rundfunk.
2006 During a raid, the Norwegian police recover the two paintings The Scream and Madonna by Edvard Munch, which were stolen from the Munch Museum in 2004.
2012 At the inauguration of a monument at the company’s headquarters in Stolberg, former Contergan manufacturer Grünenthal explicitly apologizes to the victims of the drug scandal for the first time.
2015 At a press conference on refugee policy, German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel makes the confident statement “We can do it,” which draws worldwide attention and causes a stir.

Born on August 31

1870 Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator
1880 Wilhelmina, queen of the Netherlands
1931 Noble Willingham, American film actor
1941 Wolfgang Hilbig, German writer
1941 Walter Mossmann, German singer-songwriter
1970 Rania of Jordan, Jordanian queen
1970 Arie van Lent, Dutch footballer
1990 Simon Unge, German web video producer
1991 Cédric Soares, Portuguese footballer
2000 Angel Gomes, English-Portuguese footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „31. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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