August 31st 1955 Julie Katharine Maxton was born

Published on 31 August 2023 at 00:01

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Maxton

From 2006 to 2010, she was Registrar of the University of Oxford.

1767 Henry Joy McCracken was the fifth of six children born to Captain John McCracken, a Belfast industrialist, and his wife Ann Joy, a daughter of the founder of the Belfast News Letter. Harry (as he was called by his family) was born on 31 August and raised in the Presbyterian faith. The family later moved to Rosemary Lane (now Street). https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/28561

1919 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago

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