July 31 in history: • 1777 – The Second Continental Congress passed a resolution commissioning the Marquis de Lafayette (pictured) as a major general in the American revolutionary forces. → go there • 1941 – The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring authorised SS officer Reinhard Heydrich to handle preparations for the "Final Solution of the Jewish question". → go there • 2000 – Three years after being hit by a mudslide, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Hong Kong fully reopened. → go there • 2002 – Hamas attackers detonated a bomb at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing nine students and injuring about 100 more. → go there • 2020 – A mid-air collision in Soldotna, Alaska, United States, killed seven people, including state representative Gary Knopp. → go there Born 1598: Alessandro Algardi Wiki link Died 1864: Louis Hachette Wiki link Died 1917: Hedd Wyn Wiki link Pictured: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.