July 31: Feast day of Saint Ignatius of Loyola; Ka Hae Hawai'i Day (Flag Day) in Hawaii
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Free Derry Corner
- 1201 – John Komnenos the Fat briefly seized the throne of the Byzantine Empire from Alexios III Angelos, but he was soon caught and executed.
- 1423 – Hundred Years' War: The English and their Burgundian allies were victorious over the French at the Battle of Cravant near Auxerre, France.
- 1917 – First World War: The Battle of Passchendaele began near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium, with the Allied Powers aiming to force German troops to withdraw from the Channel Ports.
- 1972 – The Troubles: Free Derry (Free Derry Corner pictured), an autonomous self-declared area of Derry, Northern Ireland, was brought to an end by the British Army's Operation Motorman.
- 2002 – Hamas detonated a bomb at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing nine students and injuring about 100 more.
William Courtenay (d. 1396) · Doris Zinkeisen (b. 1898) · J. K. Rowling (b. 1965)
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