At this time is Thursday, July 31, the 212th day of 2025. There are 153 days left within the yr.
At this time in historical past:
On July 31, 2012, on the Summer season Olympics in London, swimmer Michael Phelps gained his nineteenth Olympic medal, turning into essentially the most embellished Olympian of all time. (He would end his profession with 28 whole Olympic medals, 23 of them gold.)
Additionally on this date:
In 1715, a fleet of Spanish ships carrying gold, silver and jewellery sank throughout a hurricane off the east Florida coast; of some 2,500 crew members, greater than 1,000 died.
In 1777, the 19-year-old Marquis de Lafayette acquired a fee as main common within the Continental Military by the Second Continental Congress.
In 1919, Germany’s Weimar Structure was adopted by the republic’s Nationwide Meeting.
In 1945, Pierre Laval, premier of the pro-Nazi Vichy authorities in France, surrendered to U.S. authorities in Austria; he was turned over to France, which later tried and executed him.
In 1957, the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations designed to detect Soviet bombers approaching North America, went into operation.
In 1964, the U.S. lunar probe Ranger 7 took the primary close-up photos of the moon’s floor.
In 1971, Apollo 15 crew members David Scott and James Irwin turned the primary astronauts to make use of a lunar rover on the floor of the moon.
In 1972, vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the Democratic ticket with George McGovern following disclosures that Eagleton had acquired electroshock remedy to deal with scientific despair.
In 1991, President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Discount Treaty (START I) in Moscow.
In 2020, a federal appeals court docket overturned the loss of life sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev within the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the choose who oversaw the case didn’t adequately display screen jurors for potential biases. (The Supreme Court docket reimposed the sentence in 2022.)
At this time’s Birthdays:
- Jazz composer-musician Kenny Burrell is 94.
- Actor Geraldine Chaplin is 81.
- Former film studio government Sherry Lansing is 81.
- Singer Gary Lewis is 79.
- Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Famer Evonne Goolagong Cawley is 74.
- Actor Michael Biehn is 69.
- Rock singer-musician Daniel Ash (Love and Rockets) is 68.
- Entrepreneur Mark Cuban is 67.
- Rock musician Invoice Berry (R.E.M.) is 67.
- Jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan is 66.
- Actor Wesley Snipes is 63.
- Musician Fatboy Slim is 62.
- Creator J.Ok. Rowling is 60.
- Actor Dean Cain is 59.
- Actor Jim True-Frost is 59.
- Actor Ben Chaplin is 56.
- Actor Eve Finest is 54.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Jonathan Ogden is 51.
- Nation singer-musician Zac Brown is 47.
- Actor-producer-writer B.J. Novak is 46.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer DeMarcus Ware is 43.
- NHL heart Evgeni Malkin is 39.
- NASCAR driver Kyle Larson is 33.
- Hip-hop artist Lil Uzi Vert is 30.
- Actor Rico Rodriguez (TV: “Fashionable Household”) is 27.