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
- 30 BC –Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian’s forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
- 781 –The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
- 904 –Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
- 1009 –Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
- 1201 –Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat.
- 1667 –Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
- 1865 –The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia.
- 1919 –German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
- 1931 –New York City experimental television station W2XAO (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasts.
- 1932 –The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
- 1938 –Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
- 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.”
- 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.
- 1972 –Operation Motorman: British troops move into the no-go areas of Belfast and Derry, Northern Ireland. End of Free Derry.
- 1988 –32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2006 –Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro.
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