Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 31
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This is a list of selected July 31 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.July 31: Ka Hae Hawai‘i Day in Hawai'i; Feast day of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
- 1667 – The Second Anglo-Dutch War between England and the United Provinces ended with the signing of the Treaty of Breda in the Dutch city of Breda.
- 1703 – English writer Daniel Defoe was placed in a pillory for seditious libel after publishing a pamphlet politically satirising the High church Tories.
- 1777 – The Second Continental Congress passed a resolution allowing French nobleman Marquis de Lafayette to enter the American revolutionary forces as a Major General.
- 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele began near the town of Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium, with the Allied Powers aiming to push through the German lines and capture their submarine bases along the Belgian coast.
- 1941 – The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi military leader Hermann Göring ordered SS general Reinhard Heydrich to develop "a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution to the Jewish question".
- 1971 – Apollo program: The first Lunar Rover (pictured) was used during the Apollo 15 mission to the moon.
