^B{^#!16!31 August^N! National Day of Malaysia, and of Trinidad and Tobago. Feast Day of St Paulinus of Trier, St Aidan of Lindisfarne, St Raymond Nonnatus, and The Servite Martyrs of Prague.
^B{1422^B} Henry VI, aged nine months, acceded as King. ^B{1888^B} The body of Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols, the first victim of Jack the Ripper, was found mutilated in Buck's Row. ^B{1900^B} Coca Cola first went on sale in Britain. ^B{1928^B} The Brecht-Weill musical ^I{The Threepenny Opera^I} was first performed, in Berlin. ^B{1942^B} The German offensive was halted by the British at the Battle of Alam al-Halfa, marking the turning-point in the North African Campaign. ^B{1957^B} Malaya, later Malaysia, became independent. ^B{1972^B} US swimmer Mark Spitz won five of the seven gold medals he achieved in total at the Munich Olympics. ^B{1983^B} The USSR shot down a South Korean airliner, killing 269 people aboard. ^B{1984^B} A tropical storm hit the Philippines, killing over 1,000 people. ^B{1989^B} Buckingham Palace issued a brief statement stating that the Princess Royal, Princess Anne, was separating from her husband, Captain Mark Phillips.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Caligula, Roman emperor, ^B{12^B}; Jahangir, Mogul emperor, ^B{1569^B}; Maria Montessori, Italian educator, ^B{1870^B}; Fredric March, US actor, ^B{1897^B}; Bernard Lovell, British astronomer, ^B{1913^B}; James Coburn, US film actor, ^B{1928^B}; Van Morrison, Irish rock vocalist, ^B{1945^B}; Edwin Moses, US athlete, ^B{1955^B}.^B}
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}^>}King Henry V, ^B{1422^B}; John Bunyan, English author, ^B{1688^B}; Charles Pierre Baudelaire, French poet, ^B{1867^B}; Georges Braque, French painter, ^B{1963^B}; Rocky Marciano, US heavyweight boxer, ^B{1969^B}; John Ford, US film director, ^B{1973^B}; Henry Moore, British sculptor, ^B{1986^B}.