Today in History: July 31, Phelps sets Olympic medal record

In the current era is Thursday July the th day of There are days left in the year In the current era in history On July at the Summer Olympics in London swimmer Michael Phelps won his th Olympic medal becoming the the bulk decorated Olympian of all time He would finish his career with total Olympic medals of them gold Also on this date In a fleet of Spanish ships carrying gold silver and jewelry sank during a hurricane off the east Florida coast of particular crew members more than died Related Articles Ohio city whose Haitian transients were disparaged by Trump braces to defend them against deportation Not quite Aquaman but these baby names are far from ho-hum Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged even as Trump demands cuts Researchers across country warn of uptick in deadly flu complication affecting young children Forensic crime labs are buckling as new instrument increases demand In the -year-old Marquis de Lafayette received a commission as major general in the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress In Germany s Weimar Constitution was adopted by the republic s National Assembly In Pierre Laval premier of the pro-Nazi Vichy regime in France surrendered to U S bureaucrats in Austria he was turned over to France which later tried and executed him In the Distant Early Warning Line a system of radar stations designed to detect Soviet bombers approaching North America went into operation In the U S lunar probe Ranger took the first close-up images of the moon s surface In Apollo crew members David Scott and James Irwin became the first astronauts to use a lunar rover on the surface of the moon In vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the Democratic ticket with George McGovern following disclosures that Eagleton had received electroshock therapy to treat clinical depression In President George H W Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty START I in Moscow In a federal appeals court overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing saying the judge who oversaw the event didn t adequately screen jurors for promising biases The Supreme Court reimposed the sentence in Nowadays s Birthdays Jazz composer-musician Kenny Burrell is Actor Geraldine Chaplin is Former movie studio executive Sherry Lansing is Singer Gary Lewis is International Tennis Hall of Famer Evonne Goolagong Cawley is Actor Michael Biehn is Rock singer-musician Daniel Ash Love and Rockets is Entrepreneur Mark Cuban is Rock musician Bill Berry R E M is Jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan is Actor Wesley Snipes is Musician Fatboy Slim is Author J K Rowling is Actor Dean Cain is Actor Jim True-Frost is Actor Ben Chaplin is Actor Eve Best is Football Hall of Famer Jonathan Ogden is Country singer-musician Zac Brown is Actor-producer-writer B J Novak is Football Hall of Famer DeMarcus Ware is NHL center Evgeni Malkin is NASCAR driver Kyle Larson is Hip-hop artist Lil Uzi Vert is Actor Rico Rodriguez TV Modern Family is