On This Day - 31st July

1886 - Pianist Franz Liszt dies
1910 - Dr Crippen becomes the first person arrest as a result of wireless
1912 - Milton Friedman born
1919 - Curt Gowdy born
1944 - Geraldine Chaplin born
1951 - Barry Van Dyke born
1958 - Bill Berry born
1962 - Former fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley is assaulted at a rally in London's east end and actor Wesley Snipes born
1964 - Jim Corr born
1965 - 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling born
1966 - Actor Dean Cain born
1973 - Loyalists disrupt the new Northern Ireland Assembly, the first elected body since the British imposed direct rule in March.
1981 - Eric Lively born
1991 - The US and the Soviet Union sign the Start treaty to reduce stockpiles of nuclear warheads by about a third.
1998 - The British Government announces a total ban on landmines, a month before the first anniversary of the death of Princess Diana.

On This Day - 30th July

1818 - Author Emily Bronte born
1863 - Industrialist Henry Ford born
1891 - Baseball star Casey Stengel born
1930 - Uruguay win the first world cup
1933 - Actor Edd "Kookie" Byrnes born
1936 - Blues guitarist Buddy Guy born
1939 - American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, and critic Peter Bogdanovich born
1941 - Singer Paul Anka born
1947 - Autrian born actor and Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger born
1948 - Actor Jean Reno born
1956 - Actress Delta Burke born
1958 - Singer Kate Bush born
1963 - Actress Lisa Kudrow born
1964 - Actress Vivica A. Fox born
1966 - England win football's World Cup for the first time since the tournament began in 1930.
1971 - Actor and comedian Tom Green born
1973 - An 11-year legal battle ends with more than £20 million compensation for victims of thalidomide.
1974 - Greek, Turkish and UK foreign ministers sign a peace agreement for Cyprus and American actress Hilary Swank born
1986 - The parents of missing London estate agent Suzy Lamplugh make an emotional appeal for her safe return.
2010 - Sydney and Brisbane were shrouded in a spectacular fog this morning, causing major travel disruptions.

On This Day - 29th July

1883 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini born
1890 - Artist Vincent Van Gogh kills himself
1936 - American politician Elizabeth Dole born
1953 - Canadian musician Geddy Lee born
1966 - Country music singer Martina McBride born
1968 - Pope Paul VI has confirmed a ban on the use of contraceptives by Roman Catholics in spite of a Church commission's recommendation for change.
1976 - Fire has destroyed the famous pierhead at the end of the world's longest pier, in Southend on the UK's south-east coast.
1981 - Thousands line the streets of London to glimpse Prince Charles and Lady Diana on their wedding day.
1993 - A court in Israel says retired Ohio car worker John Demjanjuk may not after all have been notorious Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible.

On This Day - 28th July

1866 - Author Beatrix Potter born
1901 - Crooner Rudy Vallee born
1929 - Wife of J.F.K. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis born
1940 - Record producer Phil Proctor born
1943 - American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey Bill Bradley born
1945 - Pink Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright born
1945 - Cartoonist and creator of Garfield Jim Davis born.
1948 - Sally Struthers born
1965 - President Johnson commits a further 50,000 US troops to the conflict in Vietnam.
1976 - More than 200,000 people are feared dead after an 8.3 magnitude earthquake hits China.
1988 - The MP for Yeovil, Paddy Ashdown, is elected the first leader of the new Social and Liberal Democrat Party.
2000 - Nearly 80 men (the last prisoners) imprisoned for terrorist offences are freed from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.
2005 - The IRA formally orders an end to its armed campaign and says it will pursue exclusively peaceful means.

On This Day - 27th July

1931 - Actor Jerry Van Dyke born
1944 - Country music singer Bobbie Gentry born
1965 - Edward Heath becomes leader of the tory party
1969 - American wrestler Triple H born
1975 - Baseball star Alex Rodriguez born
1982 - Mercenary leader Colonel 'Mad Mike' Hoare is found guilty of hijacking a plane to escape from a failed coup in the Seychelles.
1996 - A bomb explodes in Atlanta, Georgia, the city hosting the 1996 Olympic Games leaving two people dead and many more injured.
2003 - Actor Bob Hope dies aged 100.

On This Day - 26th July

1856 - Playwright George Bernard Shaw born
1875 - Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung born
1894 - Writer Aldous Huxley born
1902 - Comedienne Gracie Allen born (wife of George Burns)
1912 - Actress and singer Vivian Vance born
1922 - American film director, screenwriter and producer Blake Edwards born (husband of Julie Andrews)
1922 Actor Jason Robards born
1928 American film director,writer, producer and photographer Stanley Kubrick born
1943 Musician Mick Jagger born
1945 Winston Churchill loses the general election and gives Labour it's first majority
1946 Actress Helen Mirren born
1949 Queen Drummer Roger Taylor born
1952 Senora Eva Peron wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer, aged 33.
1956 Egypt's president, Colonel Nasser, announces the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company to provide funding for the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
1959 Actor Kevin Spacey born
1963 - Thousands of people are feared dead as a massive earthquake rocks the Yugoslavian city of Skopje.
1964 Actress Sandra Bullock born
1973 Actress Kate Beckinsale born
1994 - A car bomb explodes outside the Israeli embassy in London injuring 14 people.

On This Day - 25th July

1834 - Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies
1870 - Painter Maxfield Parrish born
1894 - Actor Walter Brennan born
1909 - Louis Bleriot becomes the first person to fly across the English channel
1924 - Actress Estelle Getty born
1935 - Actress Barbara Harris born
1943 - The Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, steps down as head of the armed forces and the government.
1954 - American Footballer Walter Payton born
1967 - Actor Matt LeBlanc born
1969 - Senator Edward Kennedy's political career is in doubt after he pleads guilty to leaving the scene of a crime following the Chappaquiddick car crash.
1978 - Louise Brown the worlds first 'test tube baby' is born in Manchester
1982 - Actor Brad Renfro born
1989 - The Princess of Wales opens a new Aids centre in south-east London.
1992 - The Olympic Games opens in Barcelona with all countries present for the first time in modern history.
2000 - Concorde crashes minutes after take-off from Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris killing 113 people.