Historical Events for 31st July 2024

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432 - St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1910 - Pioneering Dutch aviator Clement van Maasdijk gives a flying demonstration
1925 - Unemployment Insurance Act passed in Britain
1943 - Transport #58 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
1981 - Poland's Deputy Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Jagielski is fired
1983 - Brooks Robinson, Juan Marichal, George Kell and Walter Alston are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
1987 - Battle between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed
1991 - US Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
1992 - Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, killing all 113 passengers and crew members on board the Airbus A310
2020 - Eurozone economic activity falls 11.9% for April-June with Spain the worst at -18.5%, its deepest in modern times

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