About January 31
January 31, 2025 is the 31st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 334 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 382 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 31
- 314 –Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
- 1606 –Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
- 1747 –The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
- 1849 –Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
- 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.
- 1867 –Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria
- 1891 –The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
- 1930 –3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
- 1943 –German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of World War II’s fiercest battles.
- 1945 –US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
- 1950 –President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
- 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.
- 1966 –The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
- 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.
- 1990 –The first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
- 1995 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 1996 –An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
- 2003 –The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
- 2009 –In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
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