07-30-2011, 07:43 PM
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July 31st
1886 ~ Death of Franz Liszt, Hungarian Composer.
1912 ~ Birthday of Milton Friedman, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics, 1976.
1917 ~ The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) started in Flanders. With casualties from both sides exceeding 550,000, the name Passcheddaele has come to be used as a synonym for pointless slaughter.
"...I died in Hell
(they called it Passchendaele) my wound was slight
and I was hobbling back; and then a shell
burst slick upon the duckboards; so I fell
into the bottomless mud, and lost the light"
Siegfried Sassoon
1941 ~ Hermann Göring ordered SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
1964 ~ Ranger program: Ranger 7 sent back the first close-up photographs of the moon.
1965 ~ Birthday of J. K. Rowling, Author.
1970 ~ The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1991 ~ Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) signed in Moscow.
1999 ~ NASA intentionally crashed the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
2001 ~ Death of Poul Anderson, Science Fiction author (Tau Zero).
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