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
- 314 –Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
- 1504 –France cedes Naples to Aragon.
- 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: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
- 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.
- 1915 –World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia
- 1930 –3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
- 1944 –World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
- 1946 –Yugoslavia’s new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
- 1950 –President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
- 1953 –A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
- 1966 –The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
- 1968 –Nauru gains independence from Australia.
- 1971 –Apollo program: Apollo 14 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
- 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.
- 1995 –President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
- 2003 –The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
- 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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