{"id":11175,"date":"2023-07-31T02:46:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T21:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=11175"},"modified":"2023-07-31T17:52:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:22:11","slug":"history-of-31-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-31-july\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 31 July"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 31 July<\/h2>\n<p><strong>1919<\/strong> &#8211; Germany&#8217;s Weimar Constitution was adopted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1928<\/strong> &#8211; MGM\u2019s Leo the lion roared for the first time. He introduced MGM\u2019s first talking picture, &#8220;White Shadows on the South Seas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1932<\/strong> &#8211; Enzo Ferrari retired from racing. In 1950 he launched a series of cars under his name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1945<\/strong> &#8211; Pierre Laval of France surrendered to Americans in Austria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1948<\/strong> &#8211; U.S. President Truman helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1955<\/strong> &#8211; Marilyn Bell of Toronto, Canada, at age 17, became the youngest person to swim the English Channel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1959<\/strong> &#8211; The Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) was founded. The group is known for being an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1961<\/strong> &#8211; The first tie in All-Star Game major league baseball history was recorded when it was stopped in the 9th inning due to rain at Boston&#8217;s Fenway Park.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1964<\/strong> &#8211; The American space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the moon&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1971<\/strong> &#8211; Men rode in a vehicle on the moon for the first time in a lunar rover vehicle (LRV).<\/p>\n<p><strong>1980<\/strong> &#8211; China&#8217;s population reached 1 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1981<\/strong> &#8211; The seven-week baseball players\u2019 strike came to an end when the players and owners agreed on the issue of free agent compensation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1982<\/strong> &#8211; Yugoslavia imposed a six-month freeze on prices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1989<\/strong> &#8211; A pro-Iranian group in Lebanon released a videotape reportedly showing the hanged body of American hostage William R. Higgins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1989<\/strong> &#8211; The Game Boy handheld video game device was released in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1991<\/strong> &#8211; U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1995<\/strong> &#8211; The Walt Disney Company agreed to acquire Capital Cities\/ABC in a $19 billion deal.<br \/>\nDisney movies, music and books<\/p>\n<p><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; The spacecraft Lunar Prospect crashed into the moon. It was a mission to detect frozen water on the moon&#8217;s surface. The craft had been launched on January 6, 1998.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2007<\/strong> &#8211; The iTunes Music Store reached 2 million feature length films sold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012<\/strong> \u2013 Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2014<\/strong> \u2013 Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013 Titus Bramble, English footballer<br \/>\n<strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013 Vernon Carey, American football player<br \/>\n<strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013 Paul Whatuira, New Zealand rugby league player<br \/>\n<strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013 Anabel Medina Garrigues, Spanish tennis player<br \/>\n<strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013 DeMarcus Ware, American football player<br \/>\n<strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013 Daniel Ciofani, Italian footballer<br \/>\n<strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013 R\u00e9my Di Gregorio, French cyclist<br \/>\n<strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013 Evgeni Malkin, Russian ice hockey player<br \/>\n<strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013 Brian Orakpo, American football player<br \/>\n<strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013 Michael Bradley, American soccer player<br \/>\n<strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013 Alex Glenn, New Zealand rugby league player<br \/>\n<strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013 Victoria Azarenka, Belorussian tennis player<br \/>\n<strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013 R\u00e9ka Luca Jani, Hungarian tennis player<br \/>\n<strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013 Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez, Cuban baseball player (d. 2016)<br \/>\n<strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013 Ryan Johansen, Canadian ice hockey player<br \/>\n<strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013 Kyle Larson, American race car driver<br \/>\n<strong>1994<\/strong> \u2013 Lil Uzi Vert, American hip hop artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 31 July 1919 &#8211; Germany&#8217;s Weimar Constitution was adopted. 1928 &#8211; MGM\u2019s Leo the lion roared for the first time. He introduced MGM\u2019s first talking picture, &#8220;White Shadows on the South Seas.&#8221; 1932 &#8211; Enzo Ferrari retired from racing. In 1950 he launched a series of cars under his name. 1945 &#8211; Pierre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[819,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-11175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-31-july","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-2Uf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14239,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions\/14239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}