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On this day: July 31

POSTED: 08:36 PM PDT Jul 30, 2012 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Jul 30, 2012

Mt. Fuji erupts, the Apollo 15 astronauts go for a ride and major-league baseball players end their strike, all on this day.

OTD July 31 - Daniel Defoe — 3 / 34

National Portrait Gallery, London

1703: Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but the audience, by some reports at least, pelts him with flowers and drinks to his health instead of ridiculing him.

OTD July 31 - Mount Fuji

OTD July 31 - Christopher Columbus

OTD July 31 - Daniel Defoe

OTD July 31 - US patent

OTD July 31 - Franz Liszt

OTD July 31 - MGM Lion

OTD July 31 - Olympics

OTD July 31 - Reinhard Heydrich

OTD July 31 - JFK Airport

OTD July 31 - Health Education And Welfare

OTD July 31 - Wesley Snipes

OTD July 31 - Ranger 7

OTD July 31 - Jim Reeves

OTD July 31 - JK Rowling

OTD July 31 - Dean Cain

OTD July 31 - Mark Cuban

OTD July 31 - Lunar Rover

OTD July 31 - Blue Oyster Cult

OTD July 31 - James Taylor

OTD July 31 - John Phillips

OTD July 31 - baseball strike

OTD July 31 - The Living Daylights

OTD July 31 - Victoria Azarenka

OTD July 31 - Nolan Ryan

OTD July 31 - START I

OTD July 31 - Georgian flag

OTD July 31 - Selena

OTD July 31 - Mark McGwire

OTD July 31 - Lunar Prospector

OTD July 31 - Fidel Castro

OTD July 31 - Northern Ireland

OTD July 31 - iTunes

OTD July 31 - Iran hikers

OTD July 31 - Gore Vidal

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