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The
31st o Julie
is the 212t day o the year (213t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 153 days ti come.
Events
- 781
- The earliest-recordit eruption o Munt Fuji,
Japan
, taks place.
- 1492
-
Jews
are expelled frae
Spain
.
- 1658
-
Aurangzeb
becomes Moghul Emperor o
Indie
.
- 1667
- The
Treaty
o
Breda
is agreed: The
Netherlands
gives its colony o New Amsterdam (present-day
New York
) tae
Ingland
; In return,
Ingland
gives its colony o
Suriname
tae the
Netherlands
.
- 1856
-
Christchurch
,
New Zealand
, is chairtert as a ceety.
- 1913
- The
Balkans
sign an armistice in
Bucharest
.
- 1917
-
Warld War I
: The Seicont Battle o
Flanders
stairts, an lasts until November.
- 1919
- The German naitional assembly adopts the constitution o the
Weimar Republic
.
- 1944
- French writer an pilot
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
disappears while on a reconnaissance flicht naur
Corsica
; he is presumed tae hae deed.
- 1945
-
Pierre Laval
, leader o Vichy
Fraunce
, surrenders tae Allied sodgers in
Austrick
.
- 1954
- First successful climb o
K2
by an Italian team led by
Ardito Desio
.
- 1959
-
Basque
separatist organisation
ETA
is foondit.
- 1971
- Astronauts on the Apollo 15
Muin
mission becomes the first fowk tae ride a lunar rover.
- 1992
-
Georgie
joins the
Unitit Naitions
.
- 1993
- King
Baudouin o Belgium
dees agit 62; his brither is installit as King
Albert II o Belgium
on
9 August
.
- 2006
- For heal reasons,
Fidel Castro
hands ower his duties as
Preses
o
Cuba
tae his brither,
Raul Castro
.
- 2007
- The Breetish airmy withdraws frae
Northren Ireland
.
- 2014
- A series o gas splosions in Kaohsiung,
Taiwan
, shortly afore midnicht, kills 32 fowk.
- 2015
-
Beijing
is gien the richt tae host the
2022 Winter Olympics
.
- 2016
- The "richt tae buy" policy, introduced in the 1980s, is offeecially scrapped in
Scotland
.
- 2017
-
Los Angeles
agrees tae host the
Simmer Olympic Gemmes
in
2028
, pavin the way for
Paris
tae host them in
2024
.
- 2020
-
COVID-19 pandemic
:
Vietnam
reports its first twa daiths frae
COVID-19
.
- 2020
-
COVID-19 pandemic
: Local lockdoons are imposit in several urban auries o Northren
Ingland
in response tae a resurgence o
COVID-19
cases there.
Births
- 1527
–
Maximilian II, Haly Roman Emperor
(d.
1576
)
- 1803
–
John Ericsson
, Swadish ingineer (d.
1889
)
- 1884
–
Alexander Heron
, Scots geologist (d.
1971
)
- 1898
–
Doris Zinkeisen
, Scots costume an theatre designer, penter an writer (d.
1991
)
- 1912
–
Milton Friedman
, American economist (d.
2006
)
- 1918
–
Paul D. Boyer
, American chemist (d.
2018
)
- 1919
–
Primo Levi
, Italian chemist an writer (d.
1987
)
- 1922
–
Ewan Cameron
, Scots medicinar (d.
1991
)
- 1926
–
Hilary Putnam
, American philosopher (d.
2016
)
- 1947
–
Richard Griffiths
, Breetish actor (d.
2013
)
- 1951
–
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
, Australie tennis player
- 1951
–
John Chillas
, Scots gowfer
- 1956
–
Michael Biehn
, American actor
- 1959
–
Andrew Marr
, Scots braidcast jurnalist
- 1962
–
Jackie Bird
, Scots braidcast jurnalist
- 1962
–
Wesley Snipes
, American actor
- 1963
–
Fatboy Slim
, Inglis DJ an muisicker
- 1965
–
J. K. Rowling
, Breetish author (
Harry Potter
)
- 1967
–
Derek Ferguson
, Scots fitbawer
- 1969
–
Antonio Conte
, Italian fitbawer
- 1973
–
Jacob Aagaard
, Dens-Scots chess player
- 1976
–
Paulo Wanchope
, Costa Rican fitbawer
- 1979
–
Carlos Marchena
, Spaingie fitbawer
- 1986
–
Sean Murdoch
, Scots fitbawer
- 1987
–
David Bogie
, Scots rally driver
- 1989
–
Victoria Azarenka
, Belaroushie tennis player
- 1989
–
Zelda Williams
, American actress
Daiths
- 1556
-
Ignatius o Loyola
, Spaingie priest an theologian (b.
1491
)
- 1750
- King
John V o Portugal
(b.
1689
)
- 1784
-
Denis Diderot
, French writer an philosopher (b.
1713
)
- 1874
-
Cosmo Innes
, Scots advocate, juidge, historian an antiquary (b.
1798
)
- 1875
-
Andrew Johnson
, 17t
Preses o the Unitit States
(b.
1808
)
- 1886
-
Franz Liszt
, Hungarian componer (b.
1811
)
- 1889
-
Horatius Bonar
, Scots kirkman an poet (b.
1808
)
- 1914
-
Jean Jaures
, French politeecian (b.
1859
)
- 1926
-
John McPherson
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1868
)
- 1944
-
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
, French pilot and writer (b.
1900
)
- 1993
- King
Baudouin o Belgium
(b.
1930
)
- 2001
-
Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke o Mecklenburg-Schwerin
(b.
1910
)
- 2009
- Sir
Bobby Robson
, Inglis fitbawer an manager (b.
1933
)
- 2012
-
Gore Vidal
, American writer (b.
1925
)
- 2013
-
Michael Ansara
, American actor (b.
1922
)
- 2017
-
Jeanne Moreau
, French actress (b.
1928
)
- 2018
- Sir
Alex Fergusson
, Scots politeecian (b.
1949
)
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