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4 sourced moments from August 31 in history: Henry V died in 1422, leaving a king under nine months old; Jack the Ripper's first canonical victim was murdered (1888); Thomas Edison was granted a patent for the Kinetographic Camera (1897), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on August 31

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1997 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

Princess Diana died in a Paris car crash

In the early hours of one August night, a high-speed crash in a Paris tunnel killed the world's most photographed woman and stunned a watching planet.

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1897 Culture & Arts · Film & TV

Thomas Edison was granted a patent for the Kinetographic Camera

Filed in 1891 but granted six years later, the patent staked Edison's claim to the machine that captured motion onto strips of film.

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1888 Society & Economy · Crime

Jack the Ripper's first canonical victim was murdered

The killing of Mary Ann Nichols in Whitechapel opened a string of unsolved murders that would terrorize Victorian London.

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1422 History · Medieval

Henry V died in 1422, leaving a king under nine months old

England's warrior-king died of dysentery at Vincennes aged 35, seven weeks before he would have inherited France. His heir was a baby.

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