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 213rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 153 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 18, 2020 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 443,376 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.
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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 196 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 2,779 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.
- 1423 –Hundred Years’ War: Battle of Cravant – the French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
- 1498 –On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
- 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.
- 1945 –Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
- 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.
- 1972 –Operation Motorman: British troops move into the no-go areas of Belfast and Derry, Northern Ireland. End of Free Derry.
- 2002 –Hebrew University of Jerusalem is attacked when a bomb explodes in a cafeteria, killing 9.
- 2007 –Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
Who were born on July 31?
- 1835 –Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (d. 1903)
- 1892 –Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author and publisher (d. 1986)
- 1943 –Lobo, American singer and songwriter
- 1945 –William Weld, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
- 1956 –Deval Patrick, American politician, 71st governor of Massachusetts
- 1956 –Michael Biehn, American actor
- 1965 –Julian Richards, British film director
- 1979 –B. J. Novak, American actor
- 1979 –Jade Kwan, Hong Kong singer
- 1997 –Barbie Forteza, Filipina child actress
Who died on July 31?
- 1864 –Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (b. 1800)
- 1875 –Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
- 1886 –Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (b. 1811)
- 1917 –Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
- 1944 –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (b. 1900)
- 1972 –Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899)
- 1981 –General Omar Torrijos of Panama (b. 1929).
- 1987 –Joseph E. Levine, American film producer (b, 1905)
- 1993 –King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930)
- 2005 –Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker (b. 1935)
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