This Day, That Year – August 31

Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, Saudi Arabian politician and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, was born on this day in 1985.

Did you know that:

• Thomas Edison patented a kinetoscope camera on this day in 1897
• The Burgess Shale fossils were discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott on this day in 1909
• A J Reach Co patented a cork-centred baseball on this day in 1909