January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 334 days remaining, (335 in leap years ). Also, this is the final day of January.
Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon .1606 - Gunpowder Plot : Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England .1747 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Dock Hospital .1814 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina .1849 - Corn Laws abolished in the United Kingdom .1865 - American Civil War : Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.1876 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.1915 - World War I : Germany uses poison gas against Russians .1917 - World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.1929 - The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky .1930 - 3M markets Scotch Tape.1936 - The Green Hornet radio show debuts.1944 - World War II : American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese -held Marshall Islands .1945 - Eddie Slovik is executed, the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion.1946 - Yugoslavia 's new constitution , modeling the Soviet Union , establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina , Croatia , Macedonia , Montenegro , Serbia and Slovenia ).1950 - President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb .1956 - Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France .1958 - The first successful American satellite , Explorer I , is launched into orbit.1958 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt .1961 - Ham the Chimp travels into outer space .1968 - Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon .1968 - Nauru declares independence from Australia .1971 - Apollo program : Astronauts aboard Apollo 14 lift off for a mission to the moon .1988 - Super Bowl XXII : The Washington Redskins win their second championship of the 1980s , 42-10.1990 - The first McDonald's opens in Moscow , Russia .1993 - Super Bowl XXVII : The Dallas Cowboys defeat the Buffalo Bills , 52-17.1995 - 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 in Colombo , Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.1999 - Super Bowl XXXIII : The Denver Broncos defeat the Atlanta Falcons , 34-19.2000 - An Alaska Airlines MD-83 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Malibu, California killing 131.2001 - In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crash into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.2004 - Mystery Science Theater 3000 ends its run on the Sci-Fi Channel .
Births 1752 - Gouverneur Morris , lawmaker and diplomat (d. 1816 )1797 - Franz Schubert , composer (d. 1828 )1872 - Zane Grey , writer (d. 1939 )1884 - Theodor Heuss , politician and publicist (d. 1963 )1892 - Eddie Cantor , actor, singer (d. 1964 )1894 - Isham Jones , jazz musician (d. 1956 )1901 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer (d. 1974 )1902 - Alva Mydral , politician (d. 1986 )1902 - Tallulah Bankhead , actress (d. 1968 )1905 - John O'Hara , writer (d. 1970 )1914 - Jersey Joe Walcott , boxer (d. 1994 )1915 - Thomas Merton , monk and author (d. 1968 )1915 - Garry Moore , American comedian, game show host (d. 1993 ) 1915 - Alan Lomax , American singer and musicologist (d. 2002 ) 1919 - Jackie Robinson , first African-American major league baseball player (d. 1972 )1920 - Paul Warnke , diplomat (d. 2001 )1921 - Carol Channing , actress1921 - Mario Lanza , singer, actor (d. 1959 ) 1921 - E. Fay Jones , architect 1921 - John Agar, American actor (d. 2002 ) 1922 - Joanne Dru , American actress (d. 1996 )1923 - Norman Mailer , writer and journalist1925 - Benjamin Hooks , head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1929 - Jean Simmons , actress1931 - Ernie Banks , Baseball Hall of Famer 1934 - James Franciscus , American actor (d. 1991 )1937 - Suzanne Pleshette , actress1937 - Philip Glass , composer 1938 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands 1938 - James G. Watt , former American politician 1940 - Stuart Margolin , American actor1940 - Jessica Walter , American actress 1941 - Richard A. "Dick" Gephardt , American politician1942 - Derek Jarman , director, writer (d. 1994 )1942 - Daniela Bianchi , Italian actress 1944 - Charlie Musselwhite, blues musician1946 - Terry Kath , musician (d. 1978 )1947 - Nolan Ryan , Baseball Hall of Famer 1949 - Ken Wilber , philosopher 1956 - Johnny Rotten , British singer with the Sex Pistols 1959 - Kelly Lynch , American actress1959 - Anthony LaPaglia , Australian actor 1961 - Lloyd Cole , British singer and songwriter1963 - John Dye , American actor1964 - Billey Shamrock , Swedish singer and songwriter.1970 - Minnie Driver , actress1973 - Portia DeRossi , Australian actress1974 - Ian Huntley , responsible for the Soham murders 1976 - Buddy Rice , race car driver, winner of the 2004 Indianapolis 500 1977 - Kerry Washington , American actress1980 - Tiffany Limos , actress1981 - Justin Timberlake , musician
Deaths 743 - Muhammad al-Baqir , Shia Imam 1561 - Menno Simons , founder of Mennonite church (b. 1496 )1606 - Guy Fawkes , executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot (b. 1570 )1851 - David Spangler Kaufman , American politician, first Jewish Congressman from Texas (b. 1813 )1892 - Charles Spurgeon , preacher and evangelist1907 - Timothy Eaton , department store founder (b. 1834 )1933 - John Galsworthy , writer (b. 1867 )1945 - Eddie Slovik , American soldier (b. 1920 )1956 - A. A. Milne , author (Winnie the Pooh 1882 )1967 - Eddie Tolan , American athlete (b. 1908 )1970 - Slim Harpo , blues singer (b. 1924 )1974 - Samuel Goldwyn , film studio executive (b. 1882 )1976 - Ernesto Miranda , Miranda v. Arizona 1990 - Rashad Khalifa , imam, stabbed to death (b. 1935 )1992 - Willie Dixon , blues musician (b. 1915 )1995 - George Abbott , director and producer on Broadway, dies at 107 (b. 1887 )2000 - Gil Kane , comic book writer2001 - Gordon R. Dickson , science fiction writer (b. 1923 )2002 - Francis S. Gabriski, American flying ace2004 - Eleanor Holm , American swimmer
Holidays and observances January 30 - February 1 - December 31 - February 28 (February 29 ) -- listing of all days
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January 31st (2155 words)
The course of Charles Edward for many years after the Forty-five was eccentric; latterly it became discreditable, in consequence of sottishness, which not only made his friends and attached servants desert him, but caused even his wife to quit his house, to which she would never return. THE LIGHTING OF During the threats of invasion from France in 1803-4, the spirit of the people for national defence was wound up to a high pitch of enthusiasm. of January 1804, a beacon at Hume Castle in Berwickshire was lighted in consequence of a mistake, and, other beacons following the example, the volunteers throughout nearly all the southern counties of Scotland were in arms before next morning, and pouring fast to their respective places of rendezvous.
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