My Muslim Calendar Project

July 31 Events 1492  – The Jews are expelled from Spain when the  Alhambra Decree  takes effect. 1658  –  Aurangzeb  is proclaimed  Mughal emperor  of India. 1938  –  Bulgaria  signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti ( Turkey ,  Romania ,  Yugoslavia ). 1938 – Archaeologists discover engraved  gold  and  silver  plates from King  Darius the Great  in  Persepolis . 1988  – Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a  bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses  in  Butterworth, Penang ,  Malaysia . 1992  – The nation of  Georgia  joins the  United Nations . Births 1923  –  Ahmet Ertegun , Turkish-American songwriter and producer, founded  Atlantic Records  (d. 2006) 1947 –  Mumtaz , Indian actress 1968  –  Saeed-Al-Saffar , Emirati cricketer 1970  ...

July 30 Events 762  –  Baghdad  is founded. 1980 – Israel's  Knesset  passes the  Jerusalem Law . 2012  – A  train fire  kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the  Tamil Nadu Express  in  Andhra Pradesh , India. 2012 – A  power grid failure  in  Delhi  leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India. 2014  – Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a  landslide in Maharashtra, India . Births 1893  –  Fatima Jinnah , Pakistani dentist and politician (d. 1967) 1962 –  Yakub Memon , Indian accountant and terrorist (d. 2015) 1964 –  Alek Keshishian , Lebanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter 1973 –  Sonu Nigam , Indian playback singer and actor 1979 –  Maya Nasser , Syrian journalist (d. 2012) 1982  –  Jehad Al-Hussain , Syrian footballer 1994  –  Nelydia Senrose , Malaysian actress Deaths 1286  –  Bar Hebr...

July 29 Events 587 BC  – The  Neo-Babylonian Empire   sacks  Jerusalem and destroys the  First Temple . 904  –  Sack of Thessalonica : Saracen raiders under  Leo of Tripoli  sack  Thessaloniki , the  Byzantine Empire 's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week. 1148  – The  Siege of Damascus  ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the  Second Crusade . 1980  – Iran adopts a new  "holy" flag  after the  Islamic Revolution . 1981 – After impeachment on June 21,  Abolhassan Banisadr  flees with  Massoud Rajavi  to  Paris , in an  Iranian Air Force   Boeing 707 , piloted by Colonel Behzad Moezzi, to form the  National Council of Resistance of Iran . [2] Births 869  –  Muhammad al-Mahdi , Iraqi 12th Imam (d. 941) 1941 –  Goenawan Mohamad , Indonesian poet and playwright 1949 –  Jami...

July 28 Events 1808  –  Mahmud II  became  Sultan of the Ottoman Empire  and  Caliph of Islam . 2010  –  Airblue Flight 202  crashes into the  Margalla Hills  north of  Islamabad, Pakistan , killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an  Airbus A321 . 2017  –  Prime Minister of Pakistan ,  Nawaz Sharif  was disqualified from office for life by  Supreme Court of Pakistan  after finding him guilty of  corruption charges . Births 1863  –  Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski , Russian general (d. 1919) 1946 –  Fahmida Riaz , Pakistani poet and activist 1950  –  Shahyar Ghanbari , Iranian singer-songwriter 1971  –  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , Iraqi leader of the  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 1983  –  Sam Dastyari , Iranian-Australian politician 1986 –  Dulquer Salmaan , Indian ...

July 27 Events 1202  –  Georgian–Seljuk wars : At the  Battle of Basian  the  Kingdom of Georgia  defeats the  Sultanate of Rum . 1299  – According to  Edward Gibbon ,  Osman I  invades the territory of  Nicomedia  for the first time, usually considered to be the founding day of the  Ottoman state . 1302  –  Battle of Bapheus : Decisive  Ottoman  victory over the  Byzantines  opening up  Bithynia  for Turkish conquest. 1857  – Indian Rebellion: Sixty-eight men  hold out for eight days  against a force of 2,500 to 3,000 mutinying sepoys and 8,000 irregular forces. 1880  –  Second Anglo-Afghan War :  Battle of Maiwand :  Afghan  forces led by  Mohammad Ayub Khan  defeat the British Army in battle near  Maiwand ,  Afghanistan . 1929  – The  Geneva Convention of 1929 , dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, i...