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What Happened on July 31st This Day in History

Year	Name
2014	Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270.
2012	Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
2008	East Coast Jets Flight 81 crashes near Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna, Minnesota, killing all eight people on board.
2007	Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
2006	Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother, Raúl.
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.
1997	FedEx Express Flight 14 crashes at Newark International Airport, injuring five.
1992	The nation of Georgia joins the United Nations.
1992	Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
1992	China General Aviation Flight 7552 crashes during takeoff from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport, killing 108.
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.
1988	Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
1987	A tornado occurs in Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people.
1975	The Troubles: Three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
1973	A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
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.
1971	Apollo program: the Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
1970	Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1966	The pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne disappeared off the Cornwall coast with the loss of all 31 aboard.
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.
1948	At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
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.
1945	Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
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."
1941	World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners.
1938	Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
1938	Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
1932	The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
1917	World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
1904	Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
1874	Dr. Patrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.
1865	The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
1856	Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
1790	The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1777	The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette "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."
1763	Odawa Chief Pontiac's forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run during Pontiac's War.
1741	Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
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.
1712	Action of 31 July 1712 (Great Northern War): Danish and Swedish ships clash in the Baltic Sea; the result is inconclusive.
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.
1658	Aurangzeb is proclaimed Mughal emperor of India.
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.
1618	Maurice, Prince of Orange disbands the waardgelders militia in Utrecht, a pivotal event in the Remonstrant/Counter-Remonstrant tensions.
1498	On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1492	All remaining Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
1451	Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
1423	Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant: A Franco-Scottish army is defeated by the Anglo-Burgundians at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
1201	Attempted usurpation by John Komnenos the Fat for the throne of Alexios III Angelos.
1009	Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
781	The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: Sixth day of the seventh month of the first year of the Ten'o (天応) era).
30	Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.

Famous People Born on July 31

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Year	Name
1944	Robert C. Merton, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1914	Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (d. 1983)
1962	John Chiang, American lawyer and politician, 31st California State Controller
1947	Hubert Védrine, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
1921	Whitney Young, American activist (d. 1971)
1971	Gus Frerotte, American football player and coach
1946	Gary Lewis, American pop-rock musician
1982	DeMarcus Ware, American football player
1935	Yvon Deschamps, Canadian comedian, actor, and producer
1759	Ignaz Anton von Indermauer, Austrian nobleman and government official (d. 1796)

Famous People Deaths On July 31

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on July 31. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1987	Joseph E. Levine, American film producer (b, 1905)
1886	Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1811)
1098	Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury
2004	Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)
1616	Roger Wilbraham, Solicitor-General for Ireland (b. 1553)
1990	Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
2014	Warren Bennis, American scholar, author, and academic (b. 1925)
1762	Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander (b. 1711)
2015	Alan Cheuse, American writer and critic (b. 1940)
1942	Francis Younghusband, British Army Officer, explorer and spiritual writer (b.1863)