What happend on 31st July

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1961

At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain.

1956

Jim Laker sets extraordinary record at Old Trafford in the fourth Test of taking nineteen wickets in a first-class match (the previous best was seventeen.

1954

First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.

1951

Japan Airlines is established.

1948

At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.

1945

Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.

1941

Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."

1936

The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics were to be held in Tokyo. However, the games were given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, and were eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.

1930

The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.

1919

German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (to enter into force August 14)