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July 31st, 2030	Event	Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian s forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
July 31st, 2007	Event	Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end at midnight.
July 31st, 2006	Event	Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raul Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana [La Pequena Habana in Spanish], Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated.
July 31st, 1999	Event	Discovery Program: Lunar ProspectorNASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon s surface.
July 31st, 1992	Event	A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.
July 31st, 1991	Event	The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai and kills 7 officers, 1 of severely wounded (after a head shot) becomes disabled.
July 31st, 1988	Event	32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.
July 31st, 1987	Event	A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
July 31st, 1981	Event	General Omar Torrijos of Panama dies in a plane crash.
July 31st, 1981	Event	42-day strike of Major League Baseball ends in the United States.

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