Tomorrow's Holidays in July 31

✡️ Religious Observances

• Islamic: Urs of Imam Rabbani Ahmad al-Faruqi as-Sirhindi (ق) major

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2014 — Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270. ↗
• 2012 — Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics. ↗
• 2007 — Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end. ↗
• 2006 — Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother, Raúl. ↗
• 1999 — Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen... ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1992 — José Fernández, Cuban baseball player (d. 2016)
• 1992 — Ryan Johansen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 — Kyle Larson, American race car driver
• 1991 — Réka Luca Jani, Hungarian tennis player
• 1989 — Victoria Azarenka, Belorussian tennis player