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July 31
This Day in History...
* Trinidad: island in the Caribbean was discovered by Christopher Columbus (1498)
* Christchurch: became the first New Zealand city to be chartered (1856)
* NYSE: closed due to the outbreak of World War I, but opened again four months later to help the war effort by selling bonds (1914)
* K2: the world's second-highest peak, also known as Mount Godwin-Austen, was summited for the first time, by an Italian team (1954)
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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