July 31 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for July 31
In the headlines today:

1992	Georgia is admitted to the United Nations.
1981	major league baseball players return after a 7-week strike.
1981	Panamanian leader General Omar Torrijos dies in a plane crash.
1971	Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride the new lunar rover vehicle on the surface of the moon.
1964	Country Music singer Jim Reeves dies when his airplane crashes near Nashville, TN.
1964	NASA scientists get a look at the lunar surface from photos transmitted by the Ranger Seven moon probe.
1955	Toronto, Canada's 17-year-old Marilyn Bell becomes the youngest person to swim the English Channel.
1919	Germans adopt the Weimar Constitution.
1886	The use of incense is forbidden in worship by the Church of England.
1875	Andrew Johnson, the 17th US president, dies at age 66.
1498	Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus lands at the Caribbean island of Trinidad.