Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025 is the 243rd day of the year with 122 days remaining. Notable events on Aug. 31 include Randy Weaver's 1992 surrender after an 11-day Idaho siege that killed his wife, son and a deputy U.S. marshal; the first U.S. men's tennis championships in Newport, Rhode Island (1881); the devastating 1886 Charleston earthquake; Trinidad and Tobago's 1962 independence; Poland's Solidarity movement formation in Gdansk (1980); Russia's 1994 military withdrawal from former East Germany and the Baltics; Princess Diana's 1997 death in Paris; recovery of Edvard Munch's The Scream in 2006; President Obama's 2010 announcement ending U.S. combat in Iraq; and the 2019 Midland-Odessa shooting. Notable birthdays include Isao Aoki (83), Itzhak Perlman (80), Van Morrison (80), Richard Gere (76) and Marcia Clark (72).
Today is Sunday, Aug. 31, the 243rd day of 2025. There are 122 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 31, 1992, white separatist Randy Weaver surrendered to authorities in Idaho, ending an 11-day siege by federal agents that had claimed the lives of Weaver's wife, son and a deputy U.S. marshal. Also on this date: In 1881, the first U.S. tennis championships (for men only) began in Newport, Rhode Island.
In 1886, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of up to 7.3 devastated Charleston, South Carolina, killing at least 60 people. In 1962, the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent of British colonial rule. In 1980, Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk (guh-DANSK') that ended a 17-day-old strike. In 1994, Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after half a century.
In 2010, President Barack Obama announced the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, declaring no victory after seven years of bloodshed and telling those divided over the war in his country and around the world: it's time to turn the page. In 2019, a gunman carried out a shooting rampage that stretched ten miles between the Texas communities of Midland and Odessa, leaving seven people dead before police killed the gunman outside a movie theater in Odessa.
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