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This day in history: July 31

1. 1991

   Soviet Special Purpose Police Unit troops killed seven Lithuanian customs officials in Medininkai in the most serious attack of their campaign against Lithuanian border posts.

2. 2000

   Three years after being hit by a mudslide, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Hong Kong fully reopened.

3. 2002

   Hamas attackers detonated a bomb at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing nine students and injuring about 100 more.

4. 2006

   Following intestinal surgery, Fidel Castro provisionally transferred the duties of the Cuban presidency to his brother Raúl.

5. 2007

   The Troubles: Operation Banner, the British Armed Forces' operation in Northern Ireland, ended after 38 years with a military stalemate and ceasefire.

6. 2012

   The largest power outage in history occurred across 22 Indian states, affecting more than 620 million people, or about 9 percent of the world's population.

7. 2020

   A mid-air collision in Soldotna, Alaska, United States, killed seven people, including state representative Gary Knopp.

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