What day of the week was August 31, 1940?

The day of the week August 31st, 1940 fell on was a Saturday. Isra and Mi'raj for Muslim people.

Georges Gauthier the Canadian archbishop (b. 1871) died on this day in 1940.

Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville the Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.