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August 31: Independence Day in Malaysia (1957); Romanian Language Day in Moldova and Romania

Cartoon of Jack the Ripper as a phantom stalking Whitechapel

1218 – Al-Kamil became the fourth sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt.
1888 – The body of Mary Ann Nichols, the alleged first victim of an unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper (pictured), was found in Buck's Row, London.
1942 – The Matagorda hurricane, the most intense and costliest tropical cyclone of the 1942 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated after causing $26.5 million in damages and eight deaths.
1969 – On the final day of the Isle of Wight Festival 1969, attended by approximately 150,000 people over three days, Bob Dylan appeared in his first gig in three years.
2019 – A sightseeing helicopter crashed in the mountains of Skoddevarre in Alta, Norway, killing all six people on board.

Aidan of Lindisfarne (d. 651)
Alma Mahler (b. 1879)
Feng Tianwei (b. 1986)
William McAloney (d. 1995)

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