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File:Daniel Defoe Kneller Style.jpg|Daniel Defoe |
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File:Lunar Prospector orbiter.jpg|Lunar Prospector |
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File:Presidente de Cuba, Raúl Castro, visita Salvador.jpg|Raúl Castro |
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File:George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign the START 1991.jpg|[[George H. W. Bush|Bush]] and [[Mikhail Gorbachev|Gorbachev]] sign the {{nowrap|[[START I]]}} treaty.|alt=Bush and Gorbachev sitting at a table, flanked by advisors, and signing the START I treaty. |
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File:Compagnoni and Lacedelli 1954.jpg|[[Achille Compagnoni]] (left} and [[Lino Lacedelli]] |
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File:Vigiles du roi Charles VII 47 (cropped).jpg|''The Vigils of Charles VII'', a manuscript of Martial d'Auvergne depicting the Battle of Cravant, dated to around 1484 |
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File:K2 2006b.jpg|K2 |
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File:080103 hakkai fuji.jpg|Mount Fuji |
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File:Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette.jpg|Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette |
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File:Bogside (16), August 2009.JPG|Free Derry Corner |
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'''[[July 31]]''': Feast day of '''[[Saint Ignatius of Loyola]]''' |
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| [[Calendar of saints|Feast day]] of '''[[Ignatius of Loyola|Saint Ignatius of Loyola]]''' ([[Catholic Church|Catholicism]] and [[Anglican Communion|Anglicanism]]) |
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*[[1667]] - The '''[[Treaty of Breda]]''' ended the [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]]. |
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*[[1790]] - The [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|U.S. Patent Office]] issued the first '''[[patent]]''' in the [[United States]]. |
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* [[1917]] - The Battle of '''[[Passchendaele]]''' began on the Western Front in [[World War I]]. |
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| [[781]] – The first recorded eruption of Japan's '''[[Mount Fuji]]''' ''(pictured)'' took place. |
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| [[1423]] – [[Hundred Years' War]]: The English and their [[Duchy of Burgundy|Burgundian]] allies were victorious over the French at the '''[[Battle of Cravant]]''' near [[Auxerre]], France. |
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| [[1658]] – Having defeated his brothers in a war of succession, '''[[Aurangzeb]]''' was crowned the sixth [[Mughal Empire|Mughal Emperor]]. |
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| [[1924]] – [[Herbert Payne]]'s bill introducing '''[[Electoral system of Australia|compulsory voting in Australia]]''' was passed into law. |
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| [[1930]] – '''''[[The Shadow]]''''', one of the most famous [[Pulp magazine|pulp heroes]] of the 20th century, debuted as the mysterious narrator of a radio program. |
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| [[1991]] – The Soviet Union and the United States signed the [[bilateral treaty|bilateral]] {{nowrap|'''[[START I]]'''}} treaty<!-- ''(signing pictured)''-->, the largest and most complex [[arms control]] treaty in history, which eventually removed 80% of all [[strategic nuclear weapon]]s then in existence. |
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| [[1999]] – [[NASA]]'s '''[[Lunar Prospector]]''' was deliberately crashed into the [[Shoemaker (lunar crater)|Shoemaker crater]] near the [[Moon]]'s south pole in an unsuccessful attempt to detect the presence of water. |
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Recent days: [[July 30]] – [[July 29]] – [[July 28]] |
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* [[1009]] – '''[[Pope Sergius IV|Sergius IV]]''' became the [[List of popes|142nd pope]], succeeding [[Pope John XVIII|John XVIII]]. |
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* [[1200]] or [[1201]] – '''[[John Komnenos the Fat]]''' briefly seized the throne of the [[Byzantine Empire]]<!-- from [[Alexios III Angelos|Alexios III Angelos]]-->, but was captured and executed that night. |
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* [[1667]] – The [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]]<!--not bold, lots of cn--> ended with the signing of the '''[[Treaty of Breda (1667)|Treaty of Breda]]'''. |
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* [[1777]] – The [[Second Continental Congress]] passed a resolution commissioning the '''[[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette|Marquis de Lafayette]]''' <!--''(pictured)''--> as a [[major general]] in the [[Continental Army|American revolutionary forces]]. |
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* [[1917]] – [[World War I|First World War]]: The '''[[Battle of Passchendaele]]''' began near [[Ypres]], Belgium, with the [[Allies of World War I|Allies]] aiming to force German troops to withdraw from the [[Channel Ports]]. |
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* [[1966]] – The pleasure cruiser '''[[Loss of MV Darlwyne|MV ''Darlwyne'']]''' disappeared off the coast of [[Cornwall]] with the loss of all 31 people aboard. |
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* [[1972]] – [[The Troubles]]: Hours after the [[British Army]]'s '''[[Operation Motorman]]''' brought an end to the self-declared autonomous area of '''[[Free Derry]]''' ''([[Free Derry Corner]] pictured)'' in Northern Ireland, '''[[Claudy bombing|three car bombs exploded]]''' in the village of [[Claudy]]. |
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* [[1975]] – [[The Troubles]]: In '''[[Miami Showband killings|a botched paramilitary attack]]''', three members of the popular [[The Miami Showband|Miami Showband]] and two [[Ulster Volunteer Force]] gunmen were killed in [[County Down]], Northern Ireland. |
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* [[1991]] – Soviet [[OMON|Special Purpose Police Unit]] troops killed seven Lithuanian customs officials in [[Medininkai]] in the most serious attack of their '''[[Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts|campaign against Lithuanian border posts]]'''. |
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* [[2000]] – Three years after being hit by a [[Mudflow|mudslide]], the '''[[Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery]]''' in Hong Kong fully reopened. |
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* [[2002]] – [[Hamas]] '''[[Hebrew University bombing|detonated a bomb]]''' at the [[Mount Scopus]] campus of the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]], killing nine students and injuring about 100 more. |
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* [[2006]] – Following intestinal surgery, [[Fidel Castro]] provisionally '''[[2006–2008 Cuban transfer of presidential duties|transferred the duties]]''' of the [[President of Cuba|Cuban presidency]] to his brother [[Raúl Castro|Raúl]]. |
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* [[2007]] – [[The Troubles]]: '''[[Operation Banner]]''', the [[British Armed Forces]]' operation in Northern Ireland, ended after 38 years with a military stalemate and ceasefire.<!--not bold, recentism section--> |
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* [[2012]] – '''[[2012 India blackouts|The largest power outage in history]]''' occurred across 22 [[States and union territories of India|Indian states]], affecting more than 620 million people, or about 9 percent of the world's population. |
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* Born/died: | '''[[Feng Xingxi]]'''<!--Chinese warlord-->|d|910| '''[[William Courtenay]]'''<!--English bishop-->|d|1396|'''[[Roger Wilbraham]]'''<!--English lawyer-->|d|1616| '''[[Jean-Gaspard Deburau]]'''<!--French mime-->|b|1796| '''[[Friedrich Wöhler]]'''<!--German chemist-->|b|1800| '''[[William S. Clark]]'''<!--American chemist--> |b|1826| '''[[Marion Talbot]]'''<!--American educator-->|b|1858| '''[[Charles Inglis (engineer)|Charles Inglis]]'''<!--American engineer-->|b|1875| '''[[Fred Keenor]]'''<!--Welsh footballer-->|b|1894| '''[[Doris Zinkeisen]]'''<!--Scottish theatre designer-->|b|1898| '''[[Gubby Allen]]'''<!--English cricketer, male-->|b|1902| '''[[Bill Brown (cricketer)|Bill Brown]]'''<!--Australian cricketer-->|b|1912| '''[[Hilary Putnam]]'''<!--American philosopher-->|b|1926| '''[[José Santamaría]]'''<!--Uruguayan footballer-->|b|1929| '''[[David Norris (politician)|David Norris]]'''<!--Irish politician-->|b|1944| '''[[Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd]]'''<!--American mistress of FDR-->|d|1948| '''[[Cho Ki-chon]]'''<!--North Korean poet-->|d|1951| '''[[J. K. Rowling|{{nowrap|J. K.}} Rowling]]'''<!--English writer-->|b|1965| '''[[Isamu Kamikokuryo]]'''<!--Japanese video game designer-->|b|1970| '''[[Lola Álvarez Bravo]]'''<!--Mexican photographer-->|d|1993| '''[[Nabarun Bhattacharya]]'''<!--Indian writer-->|d|2014| |
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'''[[July 31]]''': '''[[Flag of Hawaii|{{lang|haw|Lā Hae Hawaiʻi|cat=no}} (Flag Day)]]''' and '''[[Sovereignty Restoration Day|{{lang|haw|Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea|cat=no}} (Sovereignty Restoration Day)]]''' in Hawaii ([[1843]]) |
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{{main page image/OTD|File:Ranger7 PIA02975.jpg|The lunar surface as photographed by Ranger 7 approximately 17 minutes before impact}} |
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* [[1874]] – '''[[Patrick Francis Healy]]''' was inaugurated as president of [[Georgetown University]], becoming the first [[African Americans|African-American]] president of a predominantly white university in the United States. |
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* [[1924]] – A [[Private member's bill|private senator's bill]] by '''[[Herbert Payne]]''' to introduce [[Electoral system of Australia|compulsory voting in Australia]]<!--not bold, 6x {cn}--> became law. |
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* [[1954]] – '''[[1954 Italian expedition to K2|A team of Italian climbers]]''' became the first to reach the summit of [[K2]]<!--not bold, ref problems-->, the world's [[List of highest mountains on Earth|second-highest mountain]]. |
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* [[1964]] – The [[Uncrewed spacecraft#Space probes and observatories|space probe]] '''[[Ranger 7]]''' captured thousands of close-up photographs of the [[Moon]] ''(example pictured)'' over its final minutes of flight and transmitted them to Earth before crashing on the lunar surface. |
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* [[2014]] – '''[[2014 Kaohsiung gas explosions|Gas explosions]]''' in [[Kaohsiung]], Taiwan, killed 32 people and injured 321 others. |
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{{Born and died list| '''[[Fred Keenor]]'''<!--Welsh footballer-->|b|1894| '''[[David Norris (politician)|David Norris]]'''<!--Irish politician-->|b|1944| '''[[J. K. Rowling|{{nowrap|J. K.}} Rowling]]'''<!--English writer-->|b|1965|}} |
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Latest revision as of 17:19, 31 July 2024
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Daniel Defoe
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Lunar Rover-Manned land vehicle (NASA)
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Lunar Prospector
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Raúl Castro
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Achille Compagnoni (left} and Lino Lacedelli
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The Vigils of Charles VII, a manuscript of Martial d'Auvergne depicting the Battle of Cravant, dated to around 1484
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K2
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Mount Fuji
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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
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Free Derry Corner
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Feast day of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (Catholicism and Anglicanism) | appears on March 12 |
781 – The first recorded eruption of Japan's Mount Fuji (pictured) took place. | Refimprove |
1423 – Hundred Years' War: The English and their Burgundian allies were victorious over the French at the Battle of Cravant near Auxerre, France. | Refimprove |
1658 – Having defeated his brothers in a war of succession, Aurangzeb was crowned the sixth Mughal Emperor. | lots of {{cn}} tags (19) |
1924 – Herbert Payne's bill introducing compulsory voting in Australia was passed into law. | 6x cn tags |
1930 – The Shadow, one of the most famous pulp heroes of the 20th century, debuted as the mysterious narrator of a radio program. | refimprove sections |
1991 – The Soviet Union and the United States signed the bilateral START I treaty, the largest and most complex arms control treaty in history, which eventually removed 80% of all strategic nuclear weapons then in existence. | refimprove section |
1999 – NASA's Lunar Prospector was deliberately crashed into the Shoemaker crater near the Moon's south pole in an unsuccessful attempt to detect the presence of water. | refimprove |
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- 1009 – Sergius IV became the 142nd pope, succeeding John XVIII.
- 1200 or 1201 – John Komnenos the Fat briefly seized the throne of the Byzantine Empire, but was captured and executed that night.
- 1667 – The Second Anglo-Dutch War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Breda.
- 1777 – The Second Continental Congress passed a resolution commissioning the Marquis de Lafayette as a major general in the American revolutionary forces.
- 1917 – First World War: The Battle of Passchendaele began near Ypres, Belgium, with the Allies aiming to force German troops to withdraw from the Channel Ports.
- 1941 – The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring authorised SS General Reinhard Heydrich to handle preparations for "the Final Solution of the Jewish question".
- 1966 – The pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne disappeared off the coast of Cornwall with the loss of all 31 people aboard.
- 1971 – Apollo program: The Lunar Roving Vehicle was first used during the Apollo 15 mission to the Moon.
- 1972 – The Troubles: Hours after the British Army's Operation Motorman brought an end to the self-declared autonomous area of Free Derry (Free Derry Corner pictured) in Northern Ireland, three car bombs exploded in the village of Claudy.
- 1975 – The Troubles: In a botched paramilitary attack, three members of the popular Miami Showband and two Ulster Volunteer Force gunmen were killed in County Down, Northern Ireland.
- 1991 – Soviet Special Purpose Police Unit troops killed seven Lithuanian customs officials in Medininkai in the most serious attack of their campaign against Lithuanian border posts.
- 2000 – Three years after being hit by a mudslide, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Hong Kong fully reopened.
- 2002 – Hamas detonated a bomb at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing nine students and injuring about 100 more.
- 2006 – Following intestinal surgery, Fidel Castro provisionally transferred the duties of the Cuban presidency to his brother Raúl.
- 2007 – The Troubles: Operation Banner, the British Armed Forces' operation in Northern Ireland, ended after 38 years with a military stalemate and ceasefire.
- 2012 – The largest power outage in history occurred across 22 Indian states, affecting more than 620 million people, or about 9 percent of the world's population.
- Born/died: | Feng Xingxi|d|910| William Courtenay|d|1396|Roger Wilbraham|d|1616| Jean-Gaspard Deburau|b|1796| Friedrich Wöhler|b|1800| William S. Clark |b|1826| Marion Talbot|b|1858| Charles Inglis|b|1875| Fred Keenor|b|1894| Doris Zinkeisen|b|1898| Gubby Allen|b|1902| Bill Brown|b|1912| Hilary Putnam|b|1926| José Santamaría|b|1929| David Norris|b|1944| Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd|d|1948| Cho Ki-chon|d|1951| J. K. Rowling|b|1965| Isamu Kamikokuryo|b|1970| Lola Álvarez Bravo|d|1993| Nabarun Bhattacharya|d|2014|
July 31: Lā Hae Hawaiʻi (Flag Day) and Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea (Sovereignty Restoration Day) in Hawaii (1843)
- 1874 – Patrick Francis Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, becoming the first African-American president of a predominantly white university in the United States.
- 1924 – A private senator's bill by Herbert Payne to introduce compulsory voting in Australia became law.
- 1954 – A team of Italian climbers became the first to reach the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain.
- 1964 – The space probe Ranger 7 captured thousands of close-up photographs of the Moon (example pictured) over its final minutes of flight and transmitted them to Earth before crashing on the lunar surface.
- 2014 – Gas explosions in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, killed 32 people and injured 321 others.
- Fred Keenor (b. 1894)
- David Norris (b. 1944)
- J. K. Rowling (b. 1965)