Notable Historical Events on July 31st
July 31st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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. |
BC AD | |
432 |
St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
768 |
[Philip] begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
781 |
The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781). |
1291 |
Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine |
1423 |
Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - the French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. |
1451 |
Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France. |
1498 |
Christopher Columbus on his third voyage discovers the island of Trinidad |
1620 |
Pilgrim Fathers depart Leiden for England before heading to America |
1653 |
Fronde-leaders surrender in Bordeaux |
1655 |
Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years. |
1658 |
Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor |
1664 |
Pierre Corneille's "Othon" premieres in Paris |
1667 |
Peace of Breda: 2nd English war-Suriname vs New-Netherlands ends |
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. |
1718 |
Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish |
1737 |
Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court |
1741 |
Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia. |
1751 |
Fire in Stockholm destroys 1,000 houses |
1771 |
Paul Potters "Great ossendrift" sold for Ÿ9050 in Amsterdam |
1777 |
Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army |
1790 |
1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process |
1792 |
Cornerstone laid for 1st US government building: US Mint in Philaelphia |
1794 |
All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem |
1809 |
1st practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Phila |
1813 |
British invade Plattsburgh NY |
1849 |
Benjamin Chambers patents breech loading cannon |
1852 |
Hottest July in Netherlands since at least 1783 (68.4°F (20.2°C) avg) |
1855 |
Hottest July in Stockholm since at least 1756 (21.4°C avg) |
1856 |
Christchurch, New Zealand, is chartered as a city. |
1861 |
9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam: world record |
1864 |
Ulysses S. Grant is named General of Volunteers |
1865 |
The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia. |
1874 |
Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as pres of Georgetown U |
1876 |
US Coast Guard officers' training school established (New Bedford MA) |
1879 |
The first cable connection between South Africa and Europe is laid by the British electrical engineer Charles Tilston Bright as part of his project to link the British Empire with growing telecommunications technologies |
1893 |
Henry Perky patents shredded wheat |
1893 |
Gaelic League is founded by Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill in order to encourage Irish people to speak the language and take a greater interest in their culture |
1899 |
Albert Trott hits Monty Noble over the Pavilion at Lord's |
1900 |
Boer Generals Prinsloo & Roux surrender in Brandwater Basin |
1901 |
Abraham Kuyper becomes premier of Netherlands |
1905 |
Matumbi rebellion at Samanga German East Africa |
1909 |
Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th |
1910 |
Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game |
1910 |
Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration |
1911 |
Hungarian education is only taught in German |
1912 |
RBC soccer team forms in Roosendaal |
1912 |
US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights (censorship) |
1914 |
German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize |
1914 |
Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo |
1917 |
3rd battle of Ypres begins |
1919 |
Germany accepts Weimar Constitution |
1922 |
18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn) |
1922 |
General strike in Italy against fascist violence |
1923 |
Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University |
1925 |
Last allied occupying troops leave Ruhrgebied |
1925 |
Unemployment Insurance Act passed in Britain |
1928 |
1st woman to win a track and field olympic gold medal, Halina Konopacka of Poland |
1929 |
Aristide Briand becomes premier of France |
1930 |
Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yanks beat Red Sox 14-13 |
1932 |
27th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2) |
1932 |
Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Phila A's beat Indians 1-0 |
1932 |
George Washington quarter goes into circulation |
1932 |
German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%) |
1934 |
29th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats USA in Wimbledon (4-1) |
1934 |
St Louis Cards defeat Cin Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean & Tony Freitos go the distant |
1935 |
3rd Dutch government of Colijn sworn in |
1936 |
Tokyo Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics (later cancelled) |
1937 |
Politburo enables Operative Order 00447: execute 193,000 Russians |
1938 |
NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over head with a club" |
1938 |
Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius in Persepolis. |
1940 |
38 U boats sinks this month (196,000 ton) |
1940 |
Riechskommissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals |
1941 |
U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton |
1942 |
German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia |
1942 |
U-boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton |
1943 |
Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany |
1944 |
Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz |
1944 |
Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1944 |
US troops occupy Sansapor, New-Guinea |
1945 |
Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria. |
1948 |
"Brigadoon" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 581 performances |
1948 |
US President Harry Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (now Kennedy Airport), NY |
1949 |
Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, kills SS & 3rd baseman |
1951 |
Japan Airlines is established. |
1953 |
Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created |
1954 |
Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double) |
1954 |
First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio. |
1955 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Battle Creek Golf Open |
1955 |
KRNT (now KCCI) TV channel 8 in Des Moines, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1955 |
WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, WV (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1956 |
Laker takes 10-53 in Australia's 2nd innings, 19-90 for match |
1958 |
Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet |
1959 |
1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens |
1960 |
Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state |
1960 |
KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1960 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
1961 |
31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston |
1961 |
Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant |
1962 |
Federation of Malaysia forms |
1962 |
Statham is Test cricket's leading wkt-taker (229), beating Lindwall |
1963 |
Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina |
1963 |
Cleve ties record of 4 consecutive HRS (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown) |
1963 |
Indians' Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona, & Larry Brown hit consecutive home runs in one inning (vs California Angels) |
1964 |
Al Parker glides 644 miles without a motor |
1964 |
Rolling Stone concert in Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot |
1964 |
US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon |
1965 |
Cigarette advertsing banned on British TV |
1966 |
Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark |
1967 |
Rolling Stone Mick Jagger & Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence |
1968 |
Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free |
1969 |
KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
Mariner 6 flies past Mars |
1969 |
National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, La |
1970 |
37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940) |
1970 |
Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report" |
1970 |
Black Tot Day: the last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy. |
1970 |
Daniel O'Hagan (19), a Catholic civilian, is shot dead by the British Army during a serious riot in the New Lodge Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland |
1971 |
Apollo 15 astronauts take 6½ hour electric car ride on Moon |
1971 |
Deventer Soccer team Go Ahead Eagles forms |
1971 |
Venezuela's Hydrocarbons Reversion Law mandates gradual transfer to government ownership of all "unexploited concession areas" by 1974 and "all their residual assets" by 1983 |
1972 |
Dick Allen is 7th to hit 2 inside-the-park homers in a game |
1972 |
Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate |
1972 |
Operation Motorman: the British Army use 12,000 soldiers supported by tanks and bulldozers to re-take the "no-go areas" controlled by the Provisional Irish Republican Army |
1972 |
Claudy bombing: nine civilians were killed when three car bombs exploded in County Londonderry, North Ireland; no group has since claimed responsibility |
1973 |
ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to NY Nets |
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 |
1973 |
Frank Hayes scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v WI as England lose |
1975 |
The Miami Showband killings: Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, shoot dead three members of an Irish showband at Buskhill, County Down, Ireland |
1976 |
Seychelles Independence (Independence day) |
1976 |
Waldemar Cierpinski runs Olympic marathon (2:09:55.0) |
1977 |
Debbie Austin wins LPGA Pocono Northeast Golf Classic |
1977 |
E Henry Knoche, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
1977 |
John F Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA |
1978 |
Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris |
1978 |
NY Yanks now 7½ out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks |
1978 |
Pete Rose ties NL record hitting streak at 44 |
1979 |
"But Never Jam Today" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 7 performances |
1980 |
John Phillips of Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges |
1980 |
Rangers snap Orioles pitcher Steve Stone's 14-game winning streak |
1980 |
Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36 |
1980 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1981 |
42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends |
1981 |
Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of Natl Bar Association |
1982 |
46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses & several cars collide in France |
1982 |
Car/bus collision near Beaune, France, 53 die |
1982 |
Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria & France form American European Football Federation (AEFF) |
1982 |
USSR performs nuclear Test |
1983 |
38th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jan Stephenson |
1983 |
B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, & W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame |
1983 |
Dutch July avg temp is 20.1°C; warmest July since 1852 |
1984 |
Leeza Gibbon's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight |
1984 |
US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics |
1984 |
Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed |
1987 |
"Living Daylights" premieres in US |
1987 |
Battle between Iranian pilgrims & Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed |
1987 |
Guns & Roses song "Appetite for Destruction" is released |
1987 |
Oriole Eddie Murray hits his 299th & 300th career home runs |
1987 |
Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle |
1987 |
A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage. |
1988 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open |
1988 |
Jose Canseco is 1st to hit 30 HRs in 1st 3 years |
1988 |
Last Playboy club closes (Lansing Michigan) |
1988 |
Miami Dolphins beat SF 49ers 27-21 in London |
1988 |
Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame |
1988 |
32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia. |
1989 |
Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets |
1990 |
Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence |
1990 |
Nolan Ryan becomes 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games |
1991 |
Russia & US sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact |
1991 |
Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft |
1991 |
The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other. |
1992 |
Jeff Rouse swims world record/OR 100m backstroke (53.86 sec) |
1992 |
Kieren John Perkins swims world record/OR 1500m free style (14:43.4) |
1992 |
Tamas Darnyi swims world record/Olympics 200m backstroke (1:59.36) |
1992 |
Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die |
1992 |
Yang Wenyi swims world record/OR 50m freestyle (24.79 sec) |
1993 |
A's trade Rickey Henderson to Blue Jays |
1993 |
Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops |
1993 |
Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg |
1993 |
Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned king of Uganda |
1994 |
102.7°F (39.3°C) in Pleschen, East-Germany |
1994 |
28th Curtis Cup: Draw, 9-9 |
1994 |
Arcen Limburg averages 71.6°F (22.0°C) in July: record |
1994 |
Helen Alfredss wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship |
1994 |
Netherlands' warmest July since 1783 - average 21.4°C |
1994 |
Phil Rizzuto (Yanks) & Steve Carlton (Phils) enter the Hall of Fame |
1994 |
Sergei Bubka ploe vaults his 35th world record (6.14 m) |
1994 |
Stockholm averages 21.5°C; the warmest July since 1855 |
1994 |
UN votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti |
1997 |
A's trade Mark McGwire to St Louis Cardinals |
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. |
2002 |
Polaroid Corporation is purchased by One Equity Partners, creating a new company that now operates under the Polaroid Corporation name, launching a new era for Polaroid. |
2006 |
Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequeña Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated. |
2007 |
Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end. |
2012 |
Two car bombs kill 21 people in Baghdad, Iraq |
2012 |
A second power grid failure in two days leaves 670 million people in India without power |
2016 |
US skydiver jumps without parachute into net from 25000ft |
2016 |
Game of Thrones to end after season eight in 2018 |
2016 |
Texas hot air balloon crash: 'No survivors' among 16 on board |
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