Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 31

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  Daniel Defoe
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  Lunar Rover-Manned land vehicle (NASA)
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  Lunar Prospector
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  Raúl Castro
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  Bush and Gorbachev sign the Template:Nowrap treaty.
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  Achille Compagnoni (left} and Lino Lacedelli
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  The Vigils of Charles VII, a manuscript of Martial d'Auvergne depicting the Battle of Cravant, dated to around 1484
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  K2
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  Mount Fuji
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  Free Derry Corner
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  Pagoda of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery

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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 Template:Tl 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
1971 – Apollo program: The Lunar Roving Vehicle was first used during the [[Apollo 15|Template:Nowrap]] mission to the Moon.	refimprove sections
1991 – The Soviet Union and the United States signed the bilateral Template:Nowrap 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
Fidel V. Ramos|d|2022|	Too much uncited

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• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2000 – Three years after being hit by a mudslide, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery (pagoda pictured) in Hong Kong fully reopened.
• 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.
• Born/died: | Feng Xingxi|d|910| William Courtenay|d|1396|Roger Wilbraham|d|1616| Jean-Gaspard Deburau|b|1796| William S. Clark |b|1826| Charles Inglis |b|1875| Fred Quimby|b|1886| Fred Keenor|b|1894| Doris Zinkeisen|b|1898| Gubby Allen|b|1902| Bill Brown|b|1912| Hilary Putnam|b|1926| José Santamaría|b|1929| David Norris|b|1944| Cho Ki-chon|d|1951| [[J. K. Rowling|Template:Nowrap Rowling]]|b|1965| Antonio Conte|b|1969| Isamu Kamikokuryo|b|1970| Augustus Sol Invictus|b|1984| Lola Álvarez Bravo|d|1993| Michael Ansara|d|2013| Nabarun Bhattacharya|d|2014| Bill Russell|d|2022|

July 31: {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Flag Day) and {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Sovereignty Restoration Day) in Hawaii (1843) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1009 – Sergius IV became the 142nd pope, succeeding John XVIII.
• 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".
• 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.
• 2002 – Hamas detonated a bomb at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing nine students and injuring about 100 more.