On This Day
31 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1658 Aurangzeb is proclaimed Mughal emperor of India.
- 1880 Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, famous Hindi short-story writer and novelist, better known by his pen name Munshi Premchand, was born in the Lamahi village of Varanasi.
- 1924 The Madras Presidency Club pioneered the conduct of radio broadcasts.
- 1948 Establishment of the first state transport service in Calcutta in India.
- 1980 The great playback singer of Hindi films, Mohammed Rafi passed away.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1498 Columbus arrived at the island of Trinidad.
- 1790 First patent for a process of making potash was issued to Samuel Hopkins. The patent was signed by President George Washington.
- 1954 Mount Godwin-Austen (K2), the world's second-highest peak, was climbed for the first time, by an Italian team led by Ardito Desio.
- 1965 British author J.K. Rowling, creator of the immensely popular Harry Potter series, was born.
- 1971 Apollo 15 astronauts James B. Irwin and David Scott first used the four-wheeled battery-powered Lunar Roving Vehicle to extensively explore the Moon's surface, in particular the Hadley-Apennine site.
- 1990 Bosnia-Herzegovina declares independence from Yugoslavia.
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