{"id":16696,"date":"2022-07-31T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=212328"},"modified":"2022-07-31T08:26:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T06:26:08","slug":"31-july-on-this-day-in-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/31-july-on-this-day-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"31 July: On this day in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Elinor Evans\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Sunday, 31 July 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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31 July 1703\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Daniel Defoe spent the last of his three days in the pillory after being convicted of seditious libel. He was surrounded at the pillory by his supporters, thus sparing him the indignities normally suffered by those sentenced to such a punishment.<\/p>\n

31 July 1932<\/h3>\n

In Germany\u2019s federal elections, Adolf Hitler<\/a>\u2018s Nazi Party wins 38 per cent of the vote and 230 seats to become the largest party in parliament for the first time.<\/p>\n

31 July 1972\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

British forces launched Operation Motorman, an attempt to regain control of the \u2018no-go\u2019 areas established by Republican paramilitaries, notably in Belfast and Derry\/ Londonderry.<\/p>\n

31 July 1991\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

After nine years of negotiation between their two countries, US president George Bush and Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in the Moscow Kremlin.<\/p>\n

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