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- 2007 Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland comes to an end, longest-running British Army operation ever
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Jul 31 in Film & TV
- 1912 US government censors movies and photos of prizefights
Jul 31 in Music
- 1959 Cliff Richard and the Shadows have their first British #1 single with "Living Doll" (biggest British single of 1959)
Jul 31 in Sport
- 1928 Halina Konopacka of Poland hurls a discus world record of 39.62m to win the first gold medal in women's Olympic athletics at the Amsterdam Games
Did You Know?
Black Tot Day: the last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy (started 1740)
Fun Fact About July 31
Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers
Famous Weddings
- 1790 Danish Crown Prince Frederick (Later Frederick VI) marries his cousin Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel at Gottorp Castle
- 1940 Actress Loretta Young (27) weds advertising executive Tom Lewis at the chapel of St. Paul's Church in Westwood
- 1951 American musician Ray Charles (20) weds Eileen Williams in Georgia; divorce in 1952
Famous Divorces
- 1980 Karolyn Englehardt divorces baseball manager Pete Rose (39) after 16 years of marriage
- 2024 Rapper Cardi B files for divorce from her husband fellow rapper Offset for the second time [1]
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