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Events on July 31

• 1498 On his third voyage, Christopher Columbus discovers an island which, because of its three mountain peaks, he names Trinidad (Trinity).
• 1752 Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna opens. It is thereby the world's oldest zoo still in existence.
• 1914 The German Reichsbank suspends the exchange of banknotes or subsidiary coins for gold marks in order to preserve the state's gold reserves. Because of war fears, the population's demand for cash has risen significantly.
• 1919 The German National Assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution.
• 1932 The NSDAP wins 37.3% of all votes in the Reichstag election and thereby becomes the largest faction in the Reichstag.
• 1948 The new New York International Airport in New York City is officially inaugurated. On December 24, 1963, it is renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport.
• 1959 A group of Basque students founds the underground Marxist-Leninist, separatist Basque-nationalist resistance movement Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), which uses terrorist means in the struggle against the Franco dictatorship in Spain and seeks an independent Basque state.
• 1964 Ranger 7 lands hard on the Moon as planned and shatters, but before that it is still able to send the first 4,000 photographs of the Moon to Earth.
• 1970 By amending Article 38, paragraph II, of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, the active voting age is lowered from 21 to 18 and the passive voting age is lowered to the age of majority.
• 1976 The GDR's Olympic team wins the final against Poland 3:1 and becomes Olympic football champions.
• 1991 George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign the START Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union to reduce strategic nuclear weapons.
• 2006 Attempts are made to carry out bomb attacks on regional trains in North Rhine-Westphalia. The attacks, however, fail because of technical errors.

Born on July 31

• 1884 Carl Goerdeler, German jurist, politician and resistance fighter
• 1912 Milton Friedman, American economist
• 1914 Louis de Funès, French comedian
• 1930 Oleg Konstantinovich Popov, Russian clown
• 1931 Ivan Rebroff, German singer
• 1942 Hartmut Mehdorn, German industrial manager
• 1951 Carlo Karges, German musician
• 1961 Isabel Varell, German singer, actress and television presenter
• 1962 Wesley Snipes, American actor
• 1980 Mikko Hirvonen, Finnish rally driver

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „31. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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