About January 31
January 31, 2023 is the 31st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 334 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 375 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.
- 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.
- 1849 –Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
- 1865 –American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification.
- 1876 –The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
- 1891 –The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
- 1917 –World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
- 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.
- 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 –James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
- 1971 –The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1996 –Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
- 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.
- 2003 –The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
- 2033 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
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