This Day in History for 31st July (Part 2)
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Historical Events
Results 101 - 195 of 195
1961 - 31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston
1961 - Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant
1962 - Federation of Malaysia forms
1962 - Statham is Test crickets' leading wkt-taker (229), beating Lindwall
1963 - Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina
1963 - Cleve ties record of 4 consecutive HRS (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown)
1963 - Indians' Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona, & Larry Brown hit consecutive home runs in one inning (vs California Angels)
1964 - Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor
1964 - George Lascelles marries Patricia Tuckwell
1964 - Rolling Stone concert in Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot
1964 - US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon
1965 - Cigarette Ads banned on British TV
1966 - Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark
1966 - Charles Whitman wounds 46 & kills 5 at University of Texas
1967 - Rolling Stone Mick Jagger & Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence
1968 - Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free
1969 - KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 - Mariner 6 flies past Mars
1969 - National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, La
1970 - 37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940)
1970 - Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
1970 - Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1971 - Apollo 15 astronauts take 6½ hour electric car ride on Moon
1971 - Deventer Soccer team Go Ahead Eagles forms
1972 - Dick Allen is 7th to hit 2 inside-the-park homers in a game
1972 - Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate
1973 - ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to NY Nets
1973 - Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later
1973 - Frank Hayes scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v WI as England lose
1976 - Seychelles Independence (Independence day)
1976 - Waldemar Cierpinski runs Olympic marathon (2:09:55.0)
1977 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA Pocono Northeast Golf Classic
1977 - E Henry Knoche, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1977 - John F Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA
1978 - Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris
1978 - NY Yanks now 7½ out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks
1978 - Pete Rose ties NL record hitting streak at 44
1979 - "But Never Jam Today" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 7 performances
1980 - John Phillips of Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges
1980 - Rangers snap Orioles pitcher Steve Stone's 14-game winning streak
1980 - Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
1980 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends
1981 - Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of Natl Bar Assn
1982 - 46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses & several cars collide in France
1982 - Car/bus collision near Beaune, France, 53 die
1982 - Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria & France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)
1982 - USSR performs nuclear Test
1983 - 38th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jan Stephenson
1983 - B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, & W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame
1983 - Dutch July avg temp is 20.1°C; warmest July since 1852
1984 - Leeza Gibbon's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
1984 - US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
1984 - Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed
1987 - "Living Daylights" premieres in US
1987 - Battle between Iranian pilgrims & Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed
1987 - Eddie Murray hits his 300th HR
1987 - Guns & Roses song "Appetite for Destruction" is released
1987 - Oriole Eddie Murray hits his 299th & 300th career home runs
1987 - Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle
1987 - A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
1988 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open
1988 - Jose Canseco is 1st to hit 30 HRs in 1st 3 years
1988 - Last Playboy club closes (Lansing Michigan)
1988 - Miami Dolphins beat SF 49ers 27-21 in London
1988 - Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame
1988 - 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.
1989 - Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets
1990 - Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
1990 - Nolan Ryan becomes 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games
1991 - Russia & US sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact
1991 - Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
1991 - The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other.
1992 - Jeff Rouse swims world record/OR 100m backstroke (53.86 sec)
1992 - Kieren John Perkins swims world record/OR 1500m free style (14:43.4)
1992 - Tamas Darnyi swims world record/Olympics 200m backstroke (1:59.36)
1992 - Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die
1992 - Yang Wenyi swims world record/OR 50m freestyle (24.79 sec)
1993 - A's trade Rickey Henderson to Blue Jays
1993 - Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops
1993 - Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg
1993 - Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned king of Uganda
1994 - 102.7°F (39.3°C) in Pleschen, East-Germany
1994 - 28th Curtis Cup: Draw, 9-9
1994 - Arcen Limburg averages 71.6°F (22.0°C) in July: record
1994 - Helen Alfredss wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1994 - Neth averages 21.4°C; their warmest July since 1783
1994 - Phil Rizzuto (Yanks) & Steve Carlton (Phils) enter the Hall of Fame
1994 - Sergei Bubka ploe vaults his 35th world record (6.14 m)
1994 - Stockholms avgs 21.5°C; their warmest July since 1855
1994 - UN votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti
1997 - A's trade Mark McGwire to St Louis Cards
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. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequeña Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated.
2007 - Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
Famous Birthdays
Results 101 - 200 of 231
1935 - Yvon Deschamps, French-Canadian author and humorist
1936 - Bonnie Brown, rocker (Browns)
1936 - Vic Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player
1937 - Isabelle F Daniels, Jakin Georgia, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-bronze-56)
1939 - France Nuyen, Marseilles France, actress (St Elsewhere, Diamond Head)
1939 - John R West, rock guitarist (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1939 - Roger Prideaux, cricketer (England batsman in 3 Tests 1968-69)
1940 - Stanley Jaffe, producer (Fatal Attraction)
1941 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician
1943 - Carla Glasgow, LPGA golfer
1943 - Lobo, [Kent Lavoie], rocker
1943 - Stephanie Forrester (Bold & the Beautiful)
1943 - Susan Flannery, NYC, actress (Leslie Stewart-Dallas)
1943 - William Bennett, US Secretary of Education (1985-88)/drug tsar
1943 - Sab Shimono, Japanese-American actor
1944 - Geraldine Chaplin, Santa Monica Ca, actress (Dr Zhivago, 3 Musketeers)
1944 - Nico, US model/pop singer (Velvet Underground, Venus in Furs)
1944 - Sherry Lansing, Chicago Ill, actress (China Syndrome, Black Rain)
1944 - Robert C. Merton, American mathematician
1945 - Tomas Vackar, composer
1945 - William Floyd Weld, (Gov-R-Mass)
1946 - Bob Welch, rock vocalist/guitarist (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well)
1946 - Gary Lewis, Jerry's son, singer, (& The Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1946 - Karen Zerby, American religious leader
1947 - Dennis Greenslade, rocker
1947 - Karl Greene, Manchester, rock bassist, (Herman's Hermits)
1948 - Leaveil Degree, rocker (Whispers)
1950 - Lane Davies, actor (Mason-Santa Barbara, Impure Thoughts)
1951 - Barry Van Dyke, Atlanta Ga, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Diag Murder)
1951 - Evonne Goolagong Cawley, NSW Aust, tennis player (Wimbledon 1971)
1951 - Gerald Anthony, actor (Marco Dane-General Hospital, One Life to Live)
1952 - Pritawi Sudarmo, Indonesia, astronaut
1952 - João Barreiros, Portuguese writer
1953 - Hugh McDowell, chelloist (ELO-Telephone Line)
1953 - Jimmy Cook, cricketer (South African opening batsman 1992)
1953 - Ted Baillieu, Australian Politician
1953 - James Read, American actor
1954 - Derek Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Michael Biehn, actor (Terminator, Abyss, Jade)
1956 - Deval Patrick, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
1956 - Bill Callahan, American football coach
1957 - Dirk Blocker, LA Calif, actor (Baa Baa Black Sheep, Ryan's Four)
1957 - Irina Nazariva, USSR, 4 X 400m relay (Olympic-gold-1980)
1957 - Victoria E Cooke, Hollywood Ca, playmate (Aug, 1980)
1957 - Daniel Ash, British musician (Bauhaus)
1957 - Leon Durham, American baseball player
1958 - Bill Berry, US pop drummer (REM-Sentimental Hygiene)
1958 - Wallace Kurth, actor (Days of Our Lives, Ned/Ed-General Hospital)
1958 - Mark Cuban, American businessman and basketball team owner
1959 - Mike Bielecki, Baltimore MD, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1959 - Peter Senior, Singapore, Australasia golfer
1959 - Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
1960 - Dale Hunter, Petrolia, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1960 - lva Budarova, Czechostovakia, tennis star
1961 - Chris Hinton, NFL guard (Minn Vikings)
1961 - Susan Sanders, LPGA golfer
1962 - Kevin Greene, NFL linebacker (Pitts Steelers)
1962 - Kym Malin, Dallas Tx, playmate (May, 1982)
1962 - Rhonda Reilly, Indianapolis IN, LPGA golfer (1992 Oldsmobile-48th)
1962 - Sandra "Sweetness" Hodge, basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
1962 - Troy Murray, Calgary, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche)
1962 - Wesley Snipes, Bronx NY, actor (Passenger 57, Money Train)
1962 - John Chiang, American politician
1963 - Brian Skrudland, Peace River, NHL center (Florida Panthers)
1963 - Norman Cook, rocker (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
1964 - Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
1965 - Scott Brooks, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks)
1965 - Tom Stankowski, Paris France, Nike golfer
1965 - J. K. Rowling, British writer
1965 - Julian Richards, British film director
1966 - Dean Cain, Mt Clemens Michigan, actor (Clark-Lois & Clark)
1966 - Julie Forbes, Torphins Scotland, golfer (Aberdeenshire champ 1989)
1966 - Marina V A Mowatt, [Ogilvy], daughter of English princess Alexandra
1966 - Tylin John, Encino CA, playmate (Mar, 1992)
1967 - Elizabeth Wurtzel, NYC, actress (Prozac Nation)
1967 - Rodney Harvey, actor (Salsa)
1967 - Sean O'Neill, Toledo OH, US Olympic table tennis player (Olympic-92)
1967 - Tony Massenburg, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1967 - Mitsuo Iwata, Japanese seiyū
1967 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
1968 - Andre Ware, CFL quarterback (Toronto Argonauts)
1968 - David Bradley Stockton Jr, Redlands CA, PGA golfer (1994 Canon-3rd)
1968 - Saeed Al-Saffar, cricketer (UAE batsman 1996 World Cup, later captain)
1969 - Langa Sibanda, Miss Universe-Zimbabwe (1996)
1969 - Loren Dean, Las Vegas NV, actor (Billy Bathgate, Say Anything)
1969 - Richard Griffith, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Rudolf Martin, Germany, actor (Anton-All My Children)
1969 - David Cash, American professional wrestler
1969 - Kenneth D. Schisler, American politician
1970 - David Sacco, Malden MA, NHL left wing (Oly-94, Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1970 - Knut Holmann, Norway, rower (Olympics-gold-96)
1970 - Ahmad Akbarpour, Iranian writer
1971 - Gus Frerotte, NFL quarterback (Washington Redskins)
1971 - John Lowery, American guitarist
1972 - Antonio Langham, NFL cornerback (Cleve Browns)
1972 - Jason Gildon, NFL linebacker (Pitts Steelers)
1972 - Ray McElroy, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 - Tami Stronach, Teheran Iran, actress (Neverending Story)
1973 - Jerry Rivera, Puerto Rico, spanish singer
1973 - Chandra North, American supermodel
Famous Deaths
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