About January 31
January 31, 2024 is the 31st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 335 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 10 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 31
- 1504 –France cedes Naples to Aragon.
- 1814 –Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
- 1846 –After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- 1848 –John C. Fremont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
- 1862 –Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5 in telescope now located at Northwestern University.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
- 1915 –World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia
- 1917 –World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
- 1942 –World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
- 1945 –US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
- 1946 –Yugoslavia’s new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
- 1953 –A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
- 1957 –Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
- 1958 –Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
- 1968 –Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
- 1995 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 1995 –President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
- 2000 –Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
- 2001 –In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
- 2007 –Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
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