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.
- 904 –Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
- 1201 –Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat.
- 1492 –The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
- 1498 –On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
- 1667 –Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
- 1913 –The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
- 1930 –The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
- 1932 –The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
- 1938 –Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
- 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.”
- 1954 –First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
- 1956 –Jim Laker becomes the first man to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings as he returns figures of 10/53 in the Australian 2nd innings. This combined with his 9/37 in the first innings gave him match figures of 19/90 in the 4th Test at Old Trafford.
- 1971 –Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
- 1987 –A rare, class F4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
- 1991 –The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other.
- 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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