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, 478,440 hours 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.
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
1009 –
Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
1201 –
Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat.
1658 –
Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
1667 –
Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
1703 –
Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1919 –
German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
1938 –
Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
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.
1992 –
Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
Who were born on July 31?
1598 –
Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)
1837 –
William Quantrill, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (d. 1865)
1867 –
Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant and philanthropist (d. 1966)
1923 –
Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach and father of Chris Evert
1929 –
Gilles Carle, Canadian film director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1953 –
James Read, American actor
1970 –
Ben Chaplin, English actor
1976 –
Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer
1981 –
Ira Losco, Maltese singer
1987 –
Brittany Byrnes, Australian Actress
Who died on July 31?
855 –
Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (b. 780)
1653 –
Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
1805 –
Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian Freedom Fighter (b. 1756)
1886 –
Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (b. 1811)
1963 –
Sir Robert Chapman, British soldier and politician (b. 1880)
1964 –
Jim Reeves, American singer (b. 1923)
1972 –
Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899)
1986 –
Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
2001 –
Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
2001 –
Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926)
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