31 August 1869<\/h3>\n
Forty-two- year-old Irish scientist Mary\u00a0Ward became the world\u2019s first motor vehicle fatality when she fell under the wheels of the steam car she was travelling in.<\/p>\n
31 August 1900<\/h3>\n
Coca Cola\u00a0was first sold in Britain in the restaurant\u00a0of Spence\u2019s, a silk merchant and general goods store at St Paul\u2019s, London.<\/p>\n Browse more On this day in history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> By Elinor Evans Published: Wednesday, 31 August 2022 at 12:00 am 31 August\u00a01681 Anti-Catholic\u00a0agitator and pamphleteer Stephen College was hanged and quartered for treason in the Castle yard, Oxford. 31 August 1422 King Henry V died aged 35\u00a0at Vincennes, south-east of Paris, probably from dysentery he had contracted while besieging Meaux three months earlier. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":17546,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/31-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/31-august-on-this-day-in-history-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/31-august-on-this-day-in-history-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/31-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/31-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/31-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/31-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Elinor Evans Published: Wednesday, 31 August 2022 at 12:00 am 31 August\u00a01681 Anti-Catholic\u00a0agitator and pamphleteer Stephen College was hanged and quartered for treason in the Castle yard, Oxford. 31 August 1422 King Henry V died aged 35\u00a0at Vincennes, south-east of Paris, probably from dysentery he had contracted while besieging Meaux three months earlier. He…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/17545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\""Screenshot\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2010\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-09-at-17.22.22-8857e91.png?quality=45&resize=556,556"\" "\\"\"Screenshot\\"\/")
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