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.
- 1814 –Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1918 –A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
- 1919 –The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
- 1938 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- 1942 –World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
- 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.
- 1968 –Nauru gains independence from Australia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1990 –The first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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