At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated. Date: July 31, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 31 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today)

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. Date: July 31, 1964 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 31 📅 Events on this day in 1964 📅 On This Day (Today)

The pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne disappeared off the Cornwall coast with the loss of all 31 aboard. Date: July 31, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 31 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today)

Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy. Date: July 31, 1970 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 31 📅 Events on this day in 1970 📅 On This Day (Today)

Apollo program: the Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover. Date: July 31, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 31 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today)

The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy….

A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89. Date: July 31, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 31 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today)

The Troubles: Three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland. Date: July 31, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 31 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅 On This Day (Today)

A tornado occurs in Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people. Date: July 31, 1987 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 31 📅 Events on this day in 1987 📅 On This Day (Today)

Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia. Date: July 31, 1988 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 31 📅 Events on this day in 1988 📅 On This Day (Today)