31 July

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 31 July:

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1. In 1997, two teenagers attempted to steal the Aluminium supports of a 160 foot electric tower. The tower collapsed and crushed them to death.
2. In 1498, Columbus arrived at the island which he named Trinidad (The Trinity).
3. In 1588, the English fleet attacked and defeated the Spanish Armada.
4. Joseph Priestley discovered Oxygen on this date in 1774.
5. For writing The Shortest Way with Dissenters, Daniel Defoe was made to stand in the pillory in front of Temple Bar on this date in 1703. Sympathetic crowds threw Flowers at him instead of mud.
6. In 1928, MGM's first talking motion picture White Shadow of the South Seas was released, and Leo the Lion's roar was heard at the beginning for the first time. There wasn’t much dialogue, however. The only word spoken in the film was Hello.
7. In 1948, President Harry Truman dedicated New York City’s new airport as International Airport at Idlewild Field. Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the airport was renamed in his honour.
8. In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts James B. Irwin and David R. Scott became the first humans to ride a vehicle on the moon's surface. The astronauts rode around the Hadley-Apennine region of the Moon in their moon buggy.
9. The first US patent was granted to Samuel Hopkins on this date in 1790. It was for a process for making potash and pearl ashes. Mr. Hopkins did not get Patent #1, however, as thousands of patents were issued before someone came up with the bright idea of numbering them.
10. Nostradamus predicted that the world would end on this date in 1999. It didn’t.

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