July 1931 in History

Events in History

Jul 1 Ice vending machines introduced in Los Angeles 25 lbs, 15 cents
Jul 1 Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo)

Event of Interest

Jul 1 US President Herbert Hoover places a one year moratorium on war debt payments

Jul 4 1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium
Jul 4 1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks
Jul 18 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
Jul 21 Reno race track, becomes 1st in US to use daily double wagering
Jul 23 Ashmore & Cartier Islands in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia
Jul 24 A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
Jul 24 George Gunn gets 183 and son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings
Jul 27 Chilean president Carlos Ibáñez forced out
Jul 27 Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota destroyed thousands of acres of crops

Event of Interest

Jul 28 Mob hitman Mad Dog Coll allegedly participates in a kidnapping attempt that results in the shooting death of a child, which earns him the nickname "Mad Dog"

Birthdays in History

Jul 1 Leslie Caron, French-American actress (Gigi, Father Goose), born in Boulogne-Biliancourt, Seine
Jul 3 Andres Burnier [Catharina Irma Dessaur], Dutch criminologist and author (Jongensuur), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2002)
Jul 5 Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice, 1st permanent black judge on South African Supreme Court, born in Pretoria, South Africa (d. 2000)
Jul 5 James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, Irish American gangster (inspiration for Jimmy Conway character in Goodfellas), born in New York City (d. 1996)
Jul 6 Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese writer and women's rights activist (Birds of September, A Cat’s Diary), born in Kfeir, Lebanon (d. 2018)
Jul 6 Jean Campeau, French Canadian businessman and politician, born in Montreal, Quebec
Jul 7 David Eddings, American sci-fi author (Belgariad, Malloreon), born in Spokane, Washington (d. 2009)
Jul 10 Alice Munro, Canadian author (Dance of the Happy Shades) and Nobel laureate 2013, born in Wingham, Ontario
Jul 10 Del Insko, harness racer (toothpick in mouth, 1969 money leader), born in Amboy, Minnesota
Jul 10 Julian May, American sci-fi author (Golden Torc, Magnificat), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2017)
Jul 11 Hans Klein, German politician (Vice President Bundestag 1990-96), born in Šumperk, Czechoslovakia (d. 1996)
Jul 11 Herman de Vries, Dutch sculptor, born in Alkmaar, Netherlands
Jul 11 Tullio Regge, Italian physicist (Regge theory), born in Borgo d'Ale, Italy (d. 2014)
Jul 12 J. Bob Traxler, American politician (Rep-D-Michigan 1974-93), born in Kawkawlin, Michigan (d. 2019)
Jul 14 Donald Eugene Webb, American murderer (record length on FBI Most Wanted List), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (d. 1999)
Jul 15 Clive Cussler, American writer (Raise The Titanic, Sahara), born in Aurora, Illinois,

Jul 15 Eugene Louw, South African minister of Internal affairs
Jul 16 Lady Caroline Blackwood, British journalist and writer (The Last of the Duchess), born in London (d. 1996)

Marina Popovich (1931-2017)

Jul 20 Soviet Air Force colonel, engineer and test pilot (102 world records), born in Leonenki, Smolensk Oblast, USSR, birth date uncertain

Jul 22 Charles Huxtable, General commander (English ground armies)
Jul 23 Arata Isozaki, Japanese architect (Pritzker Prize - 2019; Art Tower Mito, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Walt Disney headquarters), born in Oito, Japan (d. 2022) [1]
Jul 23 Jan Torell, Swedish director (New Land, Emigrants), born in Limhamm, Sweden
Jul 23 Richard Searby, Australian lawyer and deputy-chairman (News Corp Ltd-Australia)
Jul 23 Te Atairangikaahu, Māori Queen for 40 years (1966-2006), born in Waahi Marae, Huntly, New Zealand (d. 2006)
Jul 24 Ermanno Olmi, Italian film director (The Tree of Wooden Clogs), born in Bergamo, Italy (d. 2018)
Jul 25 Kees [Cornelis Pieter] van Dijk, Dutch minister of the Interior, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 2008)
Jul 25 Murray Day, New Zealand sports administrator (President International Squash Rackets Federation 1975-81), born in Hamilton, New Zealand (d. 2022)
Jul 27 Khieu Samphan, Cambodian communist politician, born in Rumduol, Svay Rieng, French Protectorate of Cambodia

Weddings in History

James Joyce

Jul 4 Irish "Ulysses" writer James Joyce (49) and Nora Barnacle (47) finally marry in London registry office after meeting in 1904; remain wed until his death in 1941.

Deaths in History

Alice Mary Robertson (1854-1931)

Jul 1 American educator, social worker and 2nd woman in US Congress, dies at 77

Jul 2 Stephen Babcock, American agricultural chemist (Babcock test and father of scientific dairying), dies at 87
Jul 4 Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Italian WWI general and fascist, dies at 62
Jul 4 Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies
Jul 11 Jean-Louis Forain, French impressionist etcher and lithographer, dies at 78
Jul 15 Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (Poisson distribution) and economist, dies at 62
Jul 16 Alice Pike Barney, American painter, dies at 74
Jul 18 Oskar Minkowski, German Biologist (pancreas and diabetes), dies at 73
Jul 24 Willem Treub, Dutch economist and politician, dies at 75
Jul 27 Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)