Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 31
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July 31: Lā Hae Hawaiʻi (Flag Day) and Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea (Sovereignty Restoration Day) in Hawaii (1843)
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
- 1777 – The Second Continental Congress passed a resolution commissioning the Marquis de Lafayette (pictured) as a major general in the American revolutionary forces.
- 1941 – The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring authorised SS officer Reinhard Heydrich to handle preparations for the "Final Solution of the Jewish question".
- 2000 – Three years after being hit by a mudslide, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Hong Kong fully reopened.
- 2002 – Hamas attackers detonated a bomb at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing nine students and injuring about 100 more.
- 2020 – A mid-air collision in Soldotna, Alaska, United States, killed seven people, including state representative Gary Knopp.
- Alessandro Algardi (b. 1598)
- Louis Hachette (d. 1864)
- Hedd Wyn (d. 1917)
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Daniel Defoe
Lunar Rover-Manned land vehicle (NASA)
Lunar Prospector
Raúl Castro
Achille Compagnoni (left} and Lino Lacedelli
The Vigils of Charles VII, a manuscript of Martial d'Auvergne depicting the Battle of Cravant, dated to around 1484
K2
Mount Fuji
Free Derry Corner
Pagoda of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Feast day of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (Catholicism and Anglicanism) | appears on March 12 |
| 781 – The first recorded eruption of Japan's Mount Fuji (pictured) took place. | Refimprove |
| 1423 – Hundred Years' War: The English and their Burgundian allies were victorious over the French at the Battle of Cravant near Auxerre, France. | Refimprove |
| 1658 – Having defeated his brothers in a war of succession, Aurangzeb was crowned the sixth Mughal Emperor. | lots of {{cn}} tags (19) |
| 1924 – Herbert Payne's bill introducing compulsory voting in Australia was passed into law. | 6x cn tags |
| 1930 – The Shadow, one of the most famous pulp heroes of the 20th century, debuted as the mysterious narrator of a radio program. | refimprove sections |
| 1964 – The space probe Ranger 7 captured thousands of close-up photographs of the Moon over its final minutes of flight and transmitted them to Earth before crashing on the lunar surface. | undersourced |
| 1971 – Apollo program: The Lunar Roving Vehicle was first used during the Apollo 15 mission to the Moon. | refimprove sections |
| 1991 – The Soviet Union and the United States signed the bilateral START I treaty, the largest and most complex arms control treaty in history, which eventually removed 80% of all strategic nuclear weapons then in existence. | refimprove section |
| 1999 – NASA's Lunar Prospector was deliberately crashed into the Shoemaker crater near the Moon's south pole in an unsuccessful attempt to detect the presence of water. | refimprove |
| Friedrich Wöhler|b|1800| | Birthday not cited |
| Dean Cain|b|1966| | Too much uncited |
| Victoria Azarenka|b|1989| | Too much uncited |
| Bảo Đại|d|1997| | Too much uncited |
| Fidel V. Ramos|d|2022| | Too much uncited |
Eligible
- 1009 – Sergius IV became the 142nd pope, succeeding John XVIII.
- 1200 or 1201 – John Komnenos the Fat briefly seized the throne of the Byzantine Empire, but was captured and executed that night.
- 1667 – The Second Anglo-Dutch War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Breda.
- 1874 – Patrick Francis Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, becoming the first African-American president of a predominantly white university in the United States.
- 1917 – First World War: The Battle of Passchendaele began near Ypres, Belgium, with the Allies aiming to force German troops to withdraw from the Channel Ports.
- 1924 – A private senator's bill by Herbert Payne to introduce compulsory voting in Australia became law.
- 1954 – A team of Italian climbers became the first to reach the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain.
- 1966 – The pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne disappeared off the coast of Cornwall with the loss of all 31 people aboard.
- 1972 – The Troubles: Hours after the British Army's Operation Motorman brought an end to the self-declared autonomous area of Free Derry (Free Derry Corner pictured) in Northern Ireland, three car bombs exploded in the village of Claudy.
- 1975 – The Troubles: In a botched paramilitary attack, three members of the popular Miami Showband and two Ulster Volunteer Force gunmen were killed in County Down, Northern Ireland.
- 1991 – Soviet Special Purpose Police Unit troops killed seven Lithuanian customs officials in Medininkai in the most serious attack of their campaign against Lithuanian border posts.
- 2006 – Following intestinal surgery, Fidel Castro provisionally transferred the duties of the Cuban presidency to his brother Raúl.
- 2007 – The Troubles: Operation Banner, the British Armed Forces' operation in Northern Ireland, ended after 38 years with a military stalemate and ceasefire.
- 2012 – The largest power outage in history occurred across 22 Indian states, affecting more than 620 million people, or about 9 percent of the world's population.
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