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Friday, 31 July 2026
1962 US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day. 
1962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio.
1963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; estimated 22000 die and 1 million houses destroyed.
1963 Jomo Kenyatta is recorded as becoming inaugural PM of Kenya
1963 Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer, dies at 60.
1964 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th String quartet
1964 Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli.
1964 Palestine National Congress forms the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in Jerusalem.
1964 Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit
1964 John Finley Williamson, conductor (Westminster Choir), dies at 76.
1965 Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India results in the deaths of 400.
1966 "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34
1967 Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip.
1968 Award of United States Presidential Unit Citation to D Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, for the Battle of Long Tan.
1968 Second assault on Fire Support Base Balmoral, Vietnam
1968 In this year, Senator Eugene McCarthy claims Democratic primary in Oregon
1969 In this year, AC Milan claims 14th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
1969 Rhys Williams, actor (Nightmare, Okinawa, Corn is Green), dies at 71.
1970 Australian Army Training Team Vietnam awarded US unit Meritorious Citation
1971 In this year, Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram"
1971 USSR Mars 3 launched, inaugural spacecraft to soft land on Mars.
1971 Audie Murphy, actor (Whispering Smiths), dies at 46.
1972 Edward VIII, former King of the United Kingdon, dies
1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate.
1972 Edward VIII, King of Gr Brit/N Ireld/emperor (India 1936), dies at 77.
1973 Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Germ composer/conductor (Hassan), dies at 73
1974 26th Emmy Awards MASH, Alan Alda and Mary Tyler Moore win
1974 Emmy inaugural Daytime Award presentation.
1974 Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed.
1974 Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show" premieres at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances.
1975 Soyuz 18 launches
1975 Eric Emerson, entertainer, dies.
1977 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky
1977 Jiri Reinberger, composer, dies at 63
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