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What happened in history on this day: July 31?
On July 31 in ...
- 1910 - Chicago Cubs' King Cole no-hits Saint Louis Browns 4-0 in a 7-inning game.
- 1930 - Lou Gehrig grand slams as New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox 14-13.
- 1932 - Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Philadelphia Athletics beat Cleveland Indians 1-0.
- 1934 - Saint Louis Cardinals defeat Cincinnati Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean and Tony Freitos go the distant
- 1938 - New York Yankees suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over head with a club".
- 1948 - US President Harry Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), New York.
- 1949 - Lightning strikes a baseball field in Florida, kills the shortstop and third baseman.
- 1954 - Milwaukee Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hours, one double).
- 1961 - At Boston's Fenway Park, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the ninth inning because of rain.
- 1963 - Cleveland Indians tie record of four consecutive home runs (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown).
- 1972 - Chicago White Sox player Dick Allen hits two inside-the-park-homers in Minnesota.
- 1973 - ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to the New York Nets.
- 1981 - The fifty-day old baseball strike is settled as owners and players agreeing on a pooling systems for free-agents compensation. The All Star game will mark the end of baseball's first ever mid-season work stoppage.
- 1982 - Philadelphia Phillies' second baseman Manny Trillo ends his errorless streak at 479 chances setting a major league record.
- 1983 - Brooks Robinson, Juan Marichal, George Kell and Walter Alston are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 1984 - US men's gymnastics team wins team gold medal at Los Angeles Summer Olympics.
- 1988 - Miami Dolphins beat San Francisco 49ers 27-21 in London.
- 1988 - Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame.
- 1990 - Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games.
- 2005 - Wade Boggs and Ryne Sandberg are enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Also inducted are San Diego Padres announcer Jerry Coleman, winner of the Ford C. Frick Award, and sportswriter and broadcast analyst Peter Gammon, recipient of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award.
- 2022 - At Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: San Francisco Giants beats Chicago Cubs by score 4-0.
- 2022 - At Petco Park in San Diego, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: San Diego Padres beats Minnesota Twins by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Texas Rangers beats Los Angeles Angels by score 5-2.
- 2022 - At Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Los Angeles Dodgers beats Colorado Rockies by score 7-3.
- 2022 - At Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Houston Astros beats Seattle Mariners by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Chicago White Sox beats Oakland Athletics by score 4-1.
- 2022 - At LoanDepot Park in Miami, Florida, USA , Major League Baseball regular season game: New York Mets beats Miami Marlins by score 9-3.
- 2022 - At Tropicana Field in Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Cleveland Guardians beats Tampa Bay Rays by score 5-3.
- 2022 - At Great America Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Baltimore Orioles beats Cincinnati Reds by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Saint Louis Cardinals beats Washington Nationals by score 5-0.
- 2022 - At PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Philadelphia Phillies beats Pittsburgh Pirates by score 8-2.
- 2022 - At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Boston Red Sox beats Milwaukee Brewers by score 7-2.
- 2022 - At Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Kansas City Royals beats New York Yankees by score 8-6.
- 2022 - At Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Atlanta Braves beats Arizona Diamondbacks by score 1-0.
- 2022 - At Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Major League Baseball regular season game: Toronto Blue Jays beats Detroit Tigers by score 4-1.
Births of sports figures on July 31
- 1904 - Birth of Arthur Daley; sportswriter (New York Times - Pulitzer 1956).
- 1919 - Birth of Curt Gowdy in Green River, Wyoming, USA; sportscaster (New York Yankees, Chicago Red Sox, ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO, George Foster Peabody Award 1970, host of American Sportsman).
- 1951 - Birth of Evonne Goolagong in Cawley, Australia; tennis player (Wimbeldon 1971).
- 1957 - Birth of Irina Nazariva in USSR; 4 X 400m relay (Olympic-gold-1980).
- 1962 - Birth of Sandra "Sweetness" Hodge; basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters).
Deaths of sports figures on July 31
- 2015 - Death of Roddy Piper, Canadian wrestler (born 1954).
- 2017 - Death of Jérôme Golmard, French tennis player (born 1973).
- 2022 - Death of Bill Russell at age 88; basketball player (NBA Boston Celtics, two NCAA championships, 1956 Olympics (gold)), coach, Black rights activist.
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