31 July 1703
Daniel Defoe spent the final of his three days within the pillory after being convicted of seditious libel. He was surrounded on the pillory by his supporters, thus sparing him the indignities usually suffered by these sentenced to such a punishment.
31 July 1932
In Germany’s federal elections, Adolf Hitler‘s Nazi Get together wins 38 per cent of the vote and 230 seats to turn into the most important occasion in parliament for the primary time.
31 July 1972
British forces launched Operation Motorman, an try to regain management of the ‘no-go’ areas established by Republican paramilitaries, notably in Belfast and Derry/ Londonderry.
31 July 1991
After 9 years of negotiation between their two international locations, US president George Bush and Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Discount Treaty within the Moscow Kremlin.
