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100 years anniversary | ||||
31 Jul 1925 | Last allied occupying troops leave Ruhrgebied | |||
31 Jul 1925 | Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England | |||
31 Jul 1925 | Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
31 Jul 1950 | Lane Davies: Actor (Mason-Santa Barbara, Impure Thoughts) | |||
31 Jul 1950 | Richard Berry, French actor, director, and screenwriter | |||
31 Jul 1950 | Lane Davies actor (Mason-Santa Barbara, Impure Thoughts) | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
31 Jul 1975 | Sergei Gusev: Nizhny Tagil, Russia -- NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars) | |||
31 Jul 1975 | Randy Flores, American baseball player | |||
31 Jul 1975 | Andrew Hall, South African cricketer | |||
31 Jul 1975 | Simon Hirst, English radio host | |||
31 Jul 1975 | Gabe Kapler, American baseball player and manager | |||
31 Jul 1975 | Ruben Patterson, American basketball player | |||
31 Jul 1975 | Allan von Schenkel, American bassist and composer | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
31 Jul 2000 | William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American journalist and author (b. 1908) | |||
31 Jul 2000 | Eighties pop maestro Mike Stock was declared bankrupt. Mike who was one third of 80's hit factory Stock, Aitken and Waterman had been involved in several court battles over copyright issues. | |||
31 Jul 2000 |
death Hendrik Christoffel Van de Hulst Died 31 Jul 2000 at age 81 (born 19 Nov 1918). Dutch astronomer who predicted theoretically (1944) that in interstellar space the amount of neutral atomic hydrogen, which in its hyperfine transition radiates and absorbs at a wavelength of 21 cm, might be expected to occur at such high column densities as to provide a spectral line sufficiently strong as to be measurable. Shortly after the end of the war several groups set about to test this prediction. The 21-cm line of atomic hydrogen was detected in 1951, first at Harvard University followed within a few weeks by others. The discovery demonstrated that astronomical research, which at that time was limited to conventional light, could be complemented with observations at radio wavelengths, revealing a range of new physical processes. |
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20 years anniversary | ||||
31 Jul 2005 | Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician, 1st President of the European Central Bank (b. 1935) |