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July 31
(Redirected from 31 July)
July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining, as the final day of July.
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1917 - The Third Battle of Ypres starts in Flanders.
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1919 - German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (to enter into force August 14)
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1930 - The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
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1941 - 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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1945 - Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
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1948 - At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
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1954 - First ascent of K2.
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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 due to rain.
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1964 - Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon (images are 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes).
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1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
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1973 - A Delta Airlines jetliner crashed while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89
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1975 - In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.
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1976 - NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1
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1992 - A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into mountain south of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.
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1996 - MIL-STD-1750A was declared inactive for use in new designs.
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1999 - NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
Births
1300-1899
1900-1999
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1901 - Jean Dubuffet, painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
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1911 - George Liberace, musician (d. 1983)
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1912 - Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in economics
- 1912 - Irv Kupcinet, newspaper columnist (d. 2003)
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1913 - William Todman , game show producer
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1914 - Louis de Funès, actor and comedian (d. 1983)
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1916 - Bill Todman, game show producer (d. 1979)
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1918 - Hank Jones, pianist
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1919 - Curt Gowdy, sports announcer
- 1919 - Primo Levi, author, chemist (d. 1987)
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1921 - Whitney Young, civil rights activist (d. 1971)
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1923 - Ahmet Ertegun, record company executive
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1928 - Kurt Sontheimer , political scientist
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1929 - Don Murray, actor
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1930 - Oleg Popov , clown
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1931 - Kenny Burrell, guitarist
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1939 - France Nuyen, actress
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1941 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, politician
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1943 - William Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education and drug czar
- 1943 - Susan Flannery, actress
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1944 - Geraldine Chaplin, actress
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1946 - Gary Lewis , rock and roll musician
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1946 - Bob Welch, rock and roll musician
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1951 - Evonne Goolagong, tennis star
- 1951 - Barry Van Dyke, actor
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1952 - Alan Autry, American football player, actor, mayor of Fresno, California
- 1952 - Helmuts Balderis, Latvian ice-hockey player
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1958 - Bill Berry, rock and roll musician (of the band R.E.M.)
- 1958 - Mark Cuban, billionaire businessman, producer, Dallas Mavericks owner
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1959 - Stanley Jordan, jazz guitarist
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1962 - Wesley Snipes, actor
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1964 - Jim Corr, singer, musician ("The Corrs")
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1965 - J. K. Rowling, novelist
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1966 - Dean Cain, actor
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1974 - Jonathan Ogden, American football player
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1977 - Tim Couch, American football quarterback
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1981 - Eric Lively , actor
- 1981 - Ira Losco, Maltese singer
Deaths
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Holidays and observances
July 30 - August 1 - June 30 - August 31 -- listing of all days
Last updated: 02-07-2005 04:15:53
Last updated: 04-25-2005 03:06:01
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