On This Progressive Day: July 31The progressive National Socialist German Workers Party wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections (1932)
Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Socialist Workers Party official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question." (1941)
Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro (2006)
President B. Hussein Obama receives the NCAA Women's basketball champion University of Connecticut Huskies at The White House (2013)
b: Deval Patrick (1956); d: Andrew Johnson (1875), Robert Taft (1953)
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