Today in History for 31st August 2022:
Historical Events
1310 – German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia
1940 – German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap rationing
1940 – US National Guard assembles
1987 – Curtis Strange sets golf’s earning for year record ($ 697,385)
1990 – Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season
2017 – Indications that Neanderthals were the first to make glue out of tar strengthened by research published in “Scientific Reports”
Famous Birthdays
1884 – George Al Sarton, Belgian-American chemist and historian, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1956)
1895 – Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger, composer
1905 – Sal Tas, Dutch journalist and CIA agent (Het Parool) [or 1897]
1941 – Emanuel Nunes, Portuguese composer, born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 2012)
1975 – James Black, Canadian singer-songwriter (Finger Eleven), born in Ontario, Canada
1977 – Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler
Famous Deaths
1864 – Ferdinand Lassalle, French socialist and political activist (Allgemeiner), dies at 39
1869 – Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim (b. 1827)
1948 – Andrei A Zjdanov, Russian politician (against kosmopolitism), dies at 52
1985 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for tissue grafting), dies at 85
1995 – Beant Singh, Prime Minister of Punjab province of India, assassinated at 73
1996 – David Pollock, Viscount Hanworth, British barrister, dies at 80