About July 31
July 31, 2024 is the 213th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 153 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 182 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 31
- 904 –Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
- 1451 –Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
- 1498 –On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
- 1741 –Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
- 1777 –The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of 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.”
- 1856 –Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
- 1865 –The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia.
- 1931 –New York City experimental television station W2XAO (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasts.
- 1940 –A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading in the opposite direction, killing 43 people.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1970 –Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
- 1971 –Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
- 1991 –The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other.
- 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.
- 1992 –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.
- 2002 –Hebrew University of Jerusalem is attacked when a bomb explodes in a cafeteria, killing 9.
- 2006 –Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro.
- 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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