ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ONLINE WORLD ALMANAC
Gun Plot's Online Almanac provides an online diary of important birthdays and historical world events. It also provides 'What Happened This Day In Australian Military History".
Clicking on the highlighted Names/Links in the birthday list will undertake an automatic search in Google for the person named.
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Local Time Australian Eastern Standard
Saturday, 31 July 2010 10:25 pmServer Date, On This Day, Saturday, July 31, 2010.
Birthdays
1841 Herman Melville, American author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd).
1912 Milton Friedman, economist.
1919 Curt Gowdy
1944 Geraldine Chaplin
1951 Barry Van Dyke
1958 Bill Berry
1962 Wesley Snipes
1966 Dean Cain
Events
Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
1498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad.
1588 English fleet attacks Spanish armada
1790 1st US Patent granted (for a potash process).
1948 President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY
1964 Ranger 7 transmits the 1st lunar close-up photos before impact
1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report' (No more "Goodnight, David", "Goodnight, Chet")
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