Today In History

Today is Saturday, July 31, the 212th day of 2021. There are 153 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 1991: President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow.

ON THIS DATE

› 1715: A fleet of Spanish ships carrying gold, silver and jewelry sank during a hurricane off the east Florida coast; of some 2,500 crew members, more than 1,000 died.

› 1777: During the Revolutionary War, the Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the American Continental Army.

› 1919: Germany’s Weimar Constitution was adopted by the republic’s National Assembly.

› 1964: Country singer-songwriter Jim Reeves, 40, and his manager, Dean Manuel, were killed when their private plane crashed in bad weather near Nashville.

› 1971: Apollo 15 crew members David Scott and James Irwin became the first astronauts to use a lunar rover on the surface of the moon.

› 2014: The death toll from the worst recorded Ebola outbreak in history surpassed 700 in West Africa.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Actor Don Murray is

92. Jazz composer-musician Kenny Burrell is 90. Actor France Nuyen is

82. Actor Susan Flannery is 82. Singer Lobo is 77. Actor Geraldine Chaplin is 77. Former movie studio executive Sherry Lansing is 77. Singer Gary Lewis is 76. Actor Lane Davies is 71. International Tennis Hall of Famer Evonne Goolagong Cawley is 70. Actor Barry Van Dyke is 70. Actor Alan Autry is 69. Jazz composer-musician Michael Wolff is 69. Actor Dirk Blocker is 64. Entrepreneur Mark Cuban is 63. Rock musician Bill Berry is 63. Actor Wally Kurth is

63. Actor Wesley Snipes is 59. Country singer Chad Brock is 58. Musician Fatboy Slim is 58. Rock musician Jim Corr is 57. Author J.K. Rowling is 56. Actor Dean Cain is

55. Actor Jim True-Frost is 55. Actor Ben Chaplin is 52. Actor Loren Dean is

52. Actor Eve Best is 50. Actor Annie Parisse is 46. Actor Eric Lively is 40. Singer Shannon Curfman is 36. NHL center Evgeni Malkin is 35. Hip-hop artist Lil Uzi Vert is 27. Actor Reese Hartwig is

23. Actor Rico Rodriguez is 23.