Home/Lifestyle/Entertainment/On this day in history: 31 August EntertainmentLifestyle On this day in history: 31 August Way back Friday August 31, 2018 Zululand Observer Less than a minute Facebook X LinkedIn Tumblr Pinterest WhatsApp Telegram Share via Email Print 1987 Michael Jackson's iconic smash music video 'Bad' premieres on TV 1997 South Africans wake up to the news that Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car accident in Paris 1897 Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope (kinetographic camera), a device which produces moving pictures 1888 The body of Jack the Ripper’s first victim, Mary Ann ‘Polly’ Nichols, is found in Whitechapel , London August 31, 2018 Zululand Observer Less than a minute Facebook X LinkedIn Tumblr Pinterest WhatsApp Telegram Share via Email Print