What happend on 31st July

30.07
01.08
2003

WON is shut down.

1999

NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.

1996

MIL-STD-1750A is declared inactive for use in new designs.

1992

A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into mountain south of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.

1987

A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.

1976

NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1

1975

In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.

1973

A Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89

1971

Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.

1964

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).