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July 31: Lā Hae Hawaiʻi (Flag Day) and Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea (Sovereignty Restoration Day) in Hawaii (1843)

The lunar surface as photographed by Ranger 7 approximately 17 minutes before impact

1874 – Patrick Francis Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, becoming the first African-American president of a predominantly white university in the United States.
1924 – A private senator's bill by Herbert Payne to introduce compulsory voting in Australia became law.
1954 – A team of Italian climbers became the first to reach the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain.
1964 – The space probe Ranger 7 captured thousands of close-up photographs of the Moon (example pictured) over its final minutes of flight and transmitted them to Earth before crashing on the lunar surface.
2014 – Gas explosions in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, killed 32 people and injured 321 others.

Fred Keenor (b. 1894)
David Norris (b. 1944)
J. K. Rowling (b. 1965)

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1919 Weimar constitution, source note: http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/weimar/innenpolitik/versammlung/ (Deutsches Historisches Museum)