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
- 781 –The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
- 1201 –Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat.
- 1423 –Hundred Years’ War: Battle of Cravant – the French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
- 1492 –The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
- 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.
- 1856 –Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
- 1913 –The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
- 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).
- 1945 –Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
- 1948 –At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
- 1954 –First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
- 1987 –A rare, class F4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
- 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 –Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
- 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.
- 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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