Portal:United States/Anniversaries/July/July 31
Appearance
- Lafayette (pictured) as a major-general of the United States army. Lafayette would become a key military leader in the Revolutionary War.
- 1790 – Samuel Hopkins is issued the first patent issued by the government of the United States.
- 1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow is aired for the first time.
- 1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, the first tie in a Major League Baseball All-Star Game occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
- space probe Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon. The images are a thousand times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
- Face on Mars photo, which had been taken by the Viking 1satellite.
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Events
- Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major–general of the United States."
- U.S. patent is issued; granted to inventor Samuel Hopkinsfor a potash process.
- 1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow is aired for the first time.
- doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohiocollides with a multi–car freight train heading the opposite way, killing 43 people.
- Alcatrazprison.
- New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
- All-Star Game tie in major league baseballhistory occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
- 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close–up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth–bound telescopes.
- 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
- 1972 – Northeast Airlines flies its last flight before being integrated into Delta Air Lines the next day.
- Boston, Massachusettskilling 89.
- Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffais reported missing.
- Face on Marsphoto.
- 1981 – 42–day strike of Major League Baseball ends in the United States.
- 1999 – Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector – NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
- Cuban Americansparticipated.