07-31-2005, 04:50 AM
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July 31st
1099 ~ Death of El Cid , Spanish warrior.
1498 ~ Discovery of Trinidad by Christopher Columbus.
1556 ~ Death of Ignatius Loyola, Spanish priest, founder of the Jesuits.
1856 ~ Christchurch, New Zealand chartered as a city.
1886 ~ Death of Franz Liszt, Hungarian Composer.
1912 ~ Birthday of Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in economics.
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.
1999 ~ NASA intentionally crashed the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
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