July 31 in history

On July 31:

1856 Christchurch was chartered as a city.

1956 Jim Laker set a record by taking 19 wickets in a cricket Test against Australia at Old Trafford.

1976 John Walker won a gold medal at the Montreal Olympics.

Sourced from Wikipedia and NZ History Online.

This entry was posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009 at 4:33 am and is filed under history. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

<span>%d</span> bloggers like this: