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On This Day, July 31
- 2014: Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270.
- 2012: Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
- 2008: East Coast Jets Flight 81 crashes near Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna, Minnesota, killing all eight people on board.
- 2007: Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
- 2006: Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother, Raúl.