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Notable anniversaries in history for today: July 31
- 90th: 1934 - Saint Louis Cardinals defeat Cincinnati Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean and Tony Freitos go the distant
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Geraldine Chaplin in Santa Monica, California, USA; actress (Dr Zhivago, The Three Musketeers, My Cousin Rachel, Dinotopia).
- 80th: 1944 - In Warsaw, Poland, the Polish Home Army of about 2500 attempts to seize control of the city against 15,000 Germans.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Sherry Lansing in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (The China Syndrome, Black Rain).
- 70th: 1954 - Milwaukee Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hours, one double).
- 60th: 1964 - Death of Jim Reeves at age 29 in single-engine plane crash near Nashville, Tennessee, USA; country music singer ("Four Walls", "He'll Have to Go", "I'm Getting Better", "Am I Losing You", "Welcome to My World", "I Guess I'm Crazy", The Jim Reeves Show on radio and TV).
- 60th: 1964 - US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on the Moon. These are the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Jim Corr; guitarist (The Corrs).
- 50th: 1974 - Congress passes legislation giving the president authority to legalize private ownership of gold.
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Bill Raisch of lung cancer at age 79; one armed actor (Fred Johnson - The Fugitive TV show).
- 40th: 1984 - US men's gymnastics team wins team gold medal at Los Angeles Summer Olympics.
- 25th: 1999 - Mark O. Barton kills nine in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 25th: 1999 - NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the lunar surface.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Virginia Grey at age 87 in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (over 100 films and 40 TV shows, Wagon Train, The Moneychangers).
- 15th: 2009 - Six bombs explode outside mosques in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing at least 29 people, injuring more than 130 people.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of former Philippine leader Corazon Aquino, of colon cancer, at age 76.
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