Events That Happened Throughout History On This Day, Including Births, and Deaths.
1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.
1627 – An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.1729 – Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.
1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
1916 – The Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor kills four and destroys some $20,000,000 worth of military goods.
1966 – England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.
1971 – Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin in the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
1981 – As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.
2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2006 – An Israeli airstrike kills 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children.
In 1715, a fleet of Spanish ships carrying gold, silver and jewelry sank
during a hurricane off the east Florida coast; more than 1,000 died.
In 1964, the U.S. lunar probe Ranger 7 took the first close-up images of the moon’s surface.
In 2020, a federal appeals court overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing
Births On This Day
July 31, 1818 – Emily Brontë, -English novelist and poet
1863 – Henry Ford, American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company
