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.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
- 1944 –World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
- 1945 –US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
- 1945 –World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
- 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.
- 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 –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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2014 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Horse in Chinese astrology.
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