What are the important events that happened on July 31? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 31: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 31 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 18, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,706,400 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectadecatrigon’ day.
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Leo is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,240 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 31 Historical Events
781 –
The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
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.
1940 –
A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading in the opposite direction, killing 43 people.
1972 –
Operation Motorman: British troops move into the no-go areas of Belfast and Derry, Northern Ireland. End of Free Derry.
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.
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.
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.
Who were born on July 31?
1718 –
John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
1914 –
Louis de Funès, French actor and comedian (d. 1983)
1916 –
Bill Todman, American game show producer (d. 1979)
1921 –
Donald Malarkey, American World War II hero
1923 –
Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach and father of Chris Evert
1943 –
Lobo, American singer and songwriter
1947 –
Richard Griffiths, British actor
1966 –
Tatsuya Ishihara, Japanese anime director
1973 –
Fabulous Flournoy American basketball player and coach Newcastle Eagles
1981 –
Eric Lively, American actor
Who died on July 31?
1653 –
Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
1805 –
Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian Freedom Fighter (b. 1756)
1875 –
Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
1884 –
Emperor Kien Phuc, the 7th emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn Dynasty (d. 1869)
1917 –
Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
1940 –
Udham Singh, Indian Extremist Freedom Fighter(b. 1899)
1986 –
Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (b. 1912)
1988 –
Trinidad Silva, American actor (b. 1950)
1990 –
Albert Leduc, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1996 –
Seagram Miller, American rapper (b. 1970)
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