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Events on the 31st of July in history

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31 Jul 2030 Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
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31 Jul 0432 St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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31 Jul 0768 [Philip] begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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31 Jul 0781 The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
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31 Jul 0904 Saraceens hijacker Leo van Tripoli occupies and plunders Thessalonica
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31 Jul 1009 Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
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31 Jul 1201 Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat.
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31 Jul 1291 Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine
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31 Jul 1423 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant – the French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
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31 Jul 1451 Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
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31 Jul 1492 The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
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31 Jul 1498 On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
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31 Jul 1498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
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31 Jul 1588 English fleet beats Spanish Armada
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31 Jul 1588 The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
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31 Jul 1620 Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America
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31 Jul 1653 Fronde-leaders surrender in Bordeaux
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31 Jul 1655 Russo-Polish War (1654–67): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
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31 Jul 1658 Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol Emperor
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31 Jul 1658 Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
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31 Jul 1667 Peace of Breda: 2nd English war-Suriname vs. New-Netherlands ends
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31 Jul 1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
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31 Jul 1703 Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
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31 Jul 1712 Action of 31 July 1712 (Great Northern War): Danish and Swedish ships clash in the Baltic Sea; the result is inconclusive.
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31 Jul 1715 Seven days after a Spanish treasure fleet of 12 ships left Havana, Cuba for Spain, 11 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
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31 Jul 1737 Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court
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31 Jul 1741 Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
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31 Jul 1751 Fire in Stockholm destroys 1,000 houses
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31 Jul 1763 Odawa Chief Pontiac's forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run during Pontiac's War.
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31 Jul 1774 Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen
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31 Jul 1777 The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
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31 Jul 1777 Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army
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31 Jul 1790 The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
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31 Jul 1790 1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
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31 Jul 1792 Cornerstone laid for 1st US government building: US Mint in Philadelphia
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31 Jul 1794 All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem
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31 Jul 1809 1st practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Philadelphia
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31 Jul 1813 British invade Plattsburgh, New York
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31 Jul 1830 Charles X of France resigns by force
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31 Jul 1849 Benjamin Chambers patents breech loading cannon
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31 Jul 1856 Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
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31 Jul 1861 9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam: world record
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31 Jul 1864 Ulysses S Grant is named General of Volunteers
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31 Jul 1865 The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
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31 Jul 1872 C H F Peters discovers asteroids #122 Gerda & #123 Brunhild
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31 Jul 1874 Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as President of Georgetown University
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31 Jul 1893 Henry Perky patents shredded wheat
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31 Jul 1900 Boer Generals Prinsloo and Roux surrenders in Brandwater Basin
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31 Jul 1901 Abraham Kuyper becomes Premier of the Netherlands
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31 Jul 1904 Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
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31 Jul 1905 Matumbi rebellion at Samanga German East Africa
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31 Jul 1910 Chicago Cub King Cole no-hits St. Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game
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31 Jul 1910 Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration
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31 Jul 1911 Hungarian education is only taught in German
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31 Jul 1912 RBC soccer team forms in Roosendaal
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31 Jul 1912 US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights (censorship)
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31 Jul 1913 The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.
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31 Jul 1913 Bryan Hextall, NHL hall of famer
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31 Jul 1914 German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
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31 Jul 1914 Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo
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31 Jul 1917 3rd battle of Ypres begins
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31 Jul 1919 Germany accepts Weimar Constitution
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31 Jul 1919 German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
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31 Jul 1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)
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31 Jul 1923 Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University
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31 Jul 1925 Last allied occupying troops leave Ruhrgebied
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31 Jul 1925 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England
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31 Jul 1929 Aristide Briand becomes Premier of France
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31 Jul 1930 The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
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31 Jul 1930 Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yanks beat Red Sox 14-13
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31 Jul 1931 New York, New York experimental television station W2XAB (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasts.
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31 Jul 1932 27th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2)
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31 Jul 1932 Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Philadelphia Athletics beat Indians 1-0
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31 Jul 1932 George Washington quarter goes into circulation
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31 Jul 1932 German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%)
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31 Jul 1932 The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
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31 Jul 1934 29th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats USA in Wimbledon (4-1)
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31 Jul 1934 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Cin Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean and Tony Freitos go the distant
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31 Jul 1934 St Louis Cards defeat Cin Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy
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31 Jul 1935 3rd Dutch government of Colijn sworn in
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31 Jul 1935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1362 Griqua & #2865
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31 Jul 1936 Tokyo Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics (later cancelled)
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31 Jul 1937 Politburo enables Operative Order 00447: execute 193,000 Russians
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31 Jul 1938 Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
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31 Jul 1938 Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
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31 Jul 1938 NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd
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31 Jul 1940 38 U-boats sinks this month (196,000 ton)
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31 Jul 1941 The Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question."
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31 Jul 1942 U-boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton
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31 Jul 1942 German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
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31 Jul 1944 Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz
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31 Jul 1944 Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
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31 Jul 1944 US troops occupy Sansapor New-Guinea
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31 Jul 1945 Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
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31 Jul 1948 "Brigadoon" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 581 performances
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31 Jul 1948 President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), New York
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31 Jul 1948 At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
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31 Jul 1948 USS Nevada is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
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31 Jul 1949 Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, kills the SS & 3rd baseman
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31 Jul 1953 Department of Health, Education & Welfare created
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31 Jul 1954 First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
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31 Jul 1954 Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double)
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31 Jul 1955 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Battle Creek Golf Open
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31 Jul 1955 KRNT (now KCCI) TV channel 8 in Des Moines, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
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31 Jul 1955 WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, WV (NBC) 1st broadcast
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31 Jul 1956 Jim Laker becomes the first man to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings as he returns figures of 10/53 in the Australian 2nd innings. This combined with his 9/37 in the first innings gave him match figures of 19/90 in the 4th Test at Old Trafford.
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31 Jul 1958 Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet
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31 Jul 1959 1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
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31 Jul 1960 KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast
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31 Jul 1960 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
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31 Jul 1961 31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston
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31 Jul 1961 Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant
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31 Jul 1961 At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in Major League Baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
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31 Jul 1961 2nd All Star Game of 1961 ends 1-1 due to rain at Fenway Park
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31 Jul 1962 Federation of Malaysia formed
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31 Jul 1963 Arturo Illia elected President of Argentina
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31 Jul 1963 Cleveland ties record of 4 consecutive HRS (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown)
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31 Jul 1964 George Lascelles marries Patricia Tuckwell
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31 Jul 1964 Rolling Stone concert in Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot
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31 Jul 1964 Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
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31 Jul 1964 Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor
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31 Jul 1964 US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon
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31 Jul 1965 Cigarette Ads banned on British TV
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31 Jul 1966 Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark
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31 Jul 1966 Charles Whitman wounds 46 & kills 5 at University of Texas
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31 Jul 1967 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence
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31 Jul 1968 Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free
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31 Jul 1969 KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting
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31 Jul 1969 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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31 Jul 1969 Mariner 6 flies past Mars
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31 Jul 1970 37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940)
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31 Jul 1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
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31 Jul 1970 Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
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31 Jul 1971 Deventer Soccer team Go Ahead Eagles forms
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31 Jul 1971 Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
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31 Jul 1972 Dick Allen is 7th to hit 2 inside-the-park homers in a game
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31 Jul 1972 The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
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31 Jul 1972 Chic White Sox Dick Allen hits 2 inside-the-park-homers in Minn
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31 Jul 1972 Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate
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31 Jul 1973 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later
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31 Jul 1973 ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to the NY Nets
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31 Jul 1973 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston,
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31 Jul 1976 Seychelles Independence (Independence day)
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31 Jul 1976 Waldemar Cierpinski runs Olympic marathon (2:09:55.0)
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31 Jul 1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Pocono Northeast Golf Classic
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31 Jul 1977 E Henry Knoche, ends term as Deputy Director of CIA
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31 Jul 1977 John F Blake promoted from acting to Deputy Director of CIA
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31 Jul 1978 Pete Rose ties NL record hitting streak at 44
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31 Jul 1978 Gunman shoots his way into the Iraqi Embassy in Paris
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31 Jul 1978 NY Yanks now 7
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31 Jul 1979 "But Never Jam Today" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 7 performances
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31 Jul 1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2402 Satpaev & #2416 Sharonov
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31 Jul 1980 John Phillips of the Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges
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31 Jul 1980 Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
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31 Jul 1981 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman President of National Bar Association
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31 Jul 1981 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends
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31 Jul 1982 46 kids and 7 adults die as 2 buses and several cars collide in France
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31 Jul 1982 Car / bus collision near Beaune, France, 53 die
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31 Jul 1982 Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)
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31 Jul 1983 B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, and W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame
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31 Jul 1984 Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed
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31 Jul 1984 US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
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31 Jul 1987 "Living Daylights" premieres in US
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31 Jul 1987 Battle between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed
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31 Jul 1987 Eddie Murray hits his 300th HR
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31 Jul 1987 Guns and Roses song "Appetite for Destruction" is released
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31 Jul 1987 Oriole Eddie Murray hits his 299th and 300th career home runs
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31 Jul 1987 Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle
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31 Jul 1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open
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31 Jul 1988 Jose Canseco is 1st to hit 30 HRs in 1st 3 years
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31 Jul 1988 Last Playboy club closes (Lansing, Michigan)
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31 Jul 1988 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
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31 Jul 1988 Miami Dolphins beat SF 49ers 27-21 in London
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31 Jul 1988 Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame
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31 Jul 1989 Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets
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31 Jul 1990 Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
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31 Jul 1990 Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games
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31 Jul 1991 Russia and US sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact
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31 Jul 1991 Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
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31 Jul 1991 The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
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31 Jul 1992 Jeff Rouse swims world record / OR 100m backstroke (53.86 seconds)
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31 Jul 1992 Kieren John Perkins swims world record / OR 1500m free style (14:43.4)
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31 Jul 1992 Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die
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31 Jul 1992 Yang Wenyi swims world record / OR 50m freestyle (24.79 seconds)
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31 Jul 1992 Georgia joins the United Nations.
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31 Jul 1993 Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops
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31 Jul 1993 Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg
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31 Jul 1993 Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned King of Uganda
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31 Jul 1994 28th Curtis Cup: Draw, 9-9
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31 Jul 1994 Phil Rizzuto (Yanks) and Steve Carlton (Phils) enter the Hall of Fame
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31 Jul 1994 Sergei Bubka ploe vaults his 35th world record (6.14 m)
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31 Jul 1994 UN votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti
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31 Jul 1999 Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector – NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
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31 Jul 2006 Fidel Castro hands over power to brother Raúl Castro.
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31 Jul 2007 Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
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31 Jul 2009 Three members of the popular South Korean group TVXQ, (Kim Jaejoong, Kim Junsu, and Park Yoochun), filed lawsuit against their Korean management S.M. Entertainment.
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31 Jul 2012 Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
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