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Jul 31 1941
Reynhard Heydrich is delegated by Goering to commence with the Final Solution to the Jewish Question.
Jul 31 1945
John Giles' escape attempt from Alcatraz.
Jul 31 1966
Beatles records are burned in Alabama because they are Bigger Than Jesus.
Jul 31 1969
The San Francisco Chronicle, the Examiner, and the Vallejo Times-Herald receive nearly identical letters from the Zodiac killer. Specific details were given about the murder scenes, along with a demand that a "cipher" be printed on on the front page of the papers (or Zodiac would go on a "ram-Page").
Jul 31 1975
Irish pop group "Miami Showband" murdered by protestant gunmen in Northern Ireland (1975)
Jul 31 1987
Demonstrators fight police at the Great Mosque in Saudi Arabia, leaving over 400 dead. Khomeini had urged his followers to attack "pagan" Sunni muslims; after the riots he called for removal of the Saudi royal family. Other Arab nations laughed at him.
Jul 31 1998
Diminutive actor Gary Coleman, formerly of TV's Different Strokes, is booked at Hawthorne, CA police headquarters for investigation of assault and battery, after he allegedly wailed on a woman at a uniforms store. Coleman currently works as a security guard at Fox Hills Mall, and was trying to purchase a bulletproof vest.
Jul 31 1999
James Donald Ray is arrested for assaulting sheep owned by the Future Famers of America chapter at El Capitan High School in San Diego, California. His previous sodomies caused the death of two of the sheep, necessitating a police stake out which witnessed Ray's alleged in flagrante delicto cum ewe.
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