Today in History – Happy Birthday J.K.Rowling (and Harry Potter)

WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN HISTORY...JULY 31st:

1964 - US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon
1965 - Cigarette advertsing banned on British TV
1969 - Mariner 6 flies past Mars

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1932 - Ted Cassidy, Pittsburgh PA, American actor (Lurch-Addams Family)
1965 - J. K. Rowling, Gloucestershire England, writer (Harry Potter)  Incidentally, Harry Potter shares a birthday with his creator...July 31st
1966 - Dean Cain, Mt Clemens Michigan, actor (Clark-Lois & Clark)
2010 - Daughter of former US President Bill Clinton Chelsea Clinton (30) weds investment banker Marc Mezvinsky (32) at Astor Courts in Rhinebeck, New York

GOODBYE TO:

2012 - Gore Vidal, American author, dies from pneumonia at 86

To see more historical events that happened on this date, visit http://www.historyorb.com/day/july/31

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