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
- 1606 –Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
- 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.
- 1891 –The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
- 1900 –Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
- 1915 –World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia
- 1919 –The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
- 1930 –3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
- 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.
- 1945 –US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
- 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.
- 1958 –James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
- 1961 –Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
- 1968 –Nauru gains independence from Australia.
- 2000 –Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2033 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
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