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

  • 1504 –
    France cedes Naples to Aragon.
  • 1606 –
    Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
  • 1849 –
    Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
  • 1867 –
    Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria
  • 1917 –
    World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
  • 1929 –
    The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
  • 1944 –
    World War II: During Anzio campaign 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby’s Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
  • 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.
  • 1958 –
    James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
  • 1961 –
    Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
  • 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.
  • 1976 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
  • 1990 –
    The first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
  • 1995 –
    President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
  • 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.
  • 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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