This day in history - July 31

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1777 - The Marquis de Lafayette was made a major-general in the American Continental Army. He was 19 years old.

1964 - Ranger 7 became the first U.S. lunar probe to transmit images as it approached the moon on a crash trajectory (as designed).

The U.S.S.R. had succeeded in sending images of the "dark side" of the moon earlier, but Ranger's images were better quality.

Many scientific debates were settled, including the non-existence of "little green men."

1966 - Charles Joseph Whitman fatally strangled, stabbed, and bludgeoned his mother in Austin.

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- Jim