The 31st o Januar is the 31st day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 334 days ti come (335 in lowp years).
Events
1953 : Flood in the Netherlands 1958 : Explorer 1 1968 : Banner o Nauru 2018 : Lunar eclipse ower Japan 1504 - Fraunce cedes Naples tae Aragon .1606 - The Gunpouder Plot conspirators are executit.1846 - The ceety o Milwaukee , Wisconsin , is formed.1865 - American Ceevil War : Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes General-in-Chief.1906 - A major yirdquauk in Colombie an Ecuador kills 1,000 fowk.1918 - A series o accidental collisions in the Firth o Forth leads tae the loss of twa Ryal Navy submarines, wi the loss o ower 100 lives.1919 - The Battle o George Square in Glesga taks place in a fecht for shorter wirkin hours.1953 - 133 fowk are kilt in the MV Princess Victoria disaster in the North Chainel atween Belfast an Stranrawer .1953 - A major storm causes massive floodin in the Netherlands , Belgium and Ingland in the nicht tae 1 Februar .1958 - The Unitit States launches the Explorer 1 satellite.1961 - Project Mercury: NASA sends Ham the Chimp intae space .1968 - Nauru gains unthirldom frae Australie .1968 - Vietnam War : Viet Cong guerrillas attack the US Embassy in Saigon , Sooth Vietnam , as pairt o the Tet Offensive.1971 - Apollo 14 launches tae the Muin .1990 - Moscow 's first McDonald's restaurant opens.1996 - A splosive-filled truck rams intae the gates o the Central Bank o Sri Lanka in Colombo , killin at least 86 fowk.1999 - Family Guy , creatit bi Seth MacFarlane , is first braidcast.2000 - Inglis medicinar an serial killer Harold Shipman is conveectit.2000 - Alaska Airlines Flicht 261 crashes off Californie , killin 88 fowk.2001 - A Scots coort in the Netherlands finds Abdelbaset al-Megrahi guilty o the bombin o Pan Am Flicht 103 ower Lockerbie in 1988 .2002 - The Larsen B ice shelf breaks aff Antarcticae .2004 - A fire at the Rosepark nursin hame in Uddingston , Sooth Lanrikshire , kills 14 residents.2009 - An ile spillage igneetion in Molo, Kenyae , kills 113 fowk an injures aroond 200.2010 - Andy Murray loses his first Australian Open tennis feenal, agin Roger Federer .2013 - The Pemex touer explosion in Mexico Ceety kills at least 33 fowk.2015 - Sergio Mattarella is chosen for the post o Preses o Italy .2018 - A lunar eclipse coincides wi a Blue Muin (twa full muins in a month) for the first time in the 3rd millennium ; the event is referred tae as a "Super Blue Blood Muin".2020 - COVID-19 pandemic : The Unitit Kinrick , Italy , Roushie , Spain an Swaden each confirm thair first-recordit cases o COVID-19 .2020 - Brexit : The Unitit Kinrick offeecially leaves the European Union at 11pm (UK Time), stairtin an 11-month transeetion period; it is the first unthirlt member state tae leave the bloc.
Births
Jackie Robinson Princess Beatrix o the Netherlands 1543 - Tokugawa Ieyasu , Japanese shogun (d. 1616 )1762 - Lachlan Macquarie , Scots Govrenor o New Sooth Wales (d. 1824 )1797 - Franz Schubert , Austrick componer (d. 1828 )1814 - Andrew Ramsay , Scots geologist (d. 1891 )1835 - Lunalilo , Keeng o Hawaii (d. 1874 )1868 - Theodore William Richards , American pheesical chemist (d. 1928 )1884 - Theodor Heuss , 1st Preses o Wast Germany (d. 1963 )1881 - Irving Langmuir , American chemist (d. 1957 )1902 - Alva Myrdal , Swadish sociologist an politeecian (d. 1986 )1919 - Jackie Robinson , American basebaw player (d. 1972 )1921 - Carol Channing , American actress (d. 2019 )1923 - Norman Mailer , American novelist (d. 2007 )1925 - Paddy Buckley , Scots fitbawer (d. 2008 )1929 - Jean Simmons , Inglis-American actress (d. 2010 )1929 - Rudolf Mössbauer , German pheesicist (d. 2011 )1931 - Ernie Banks , American basebaw player an coach (d. 2015 )1934 - Eva Mozes Kor , Romanie-born survivor o the Holocaust (d. 2019 )1935 - Kenzaburō Ōe , Japanese writer1937 - Suzanne Pleshette , American actress (d. 2008 )1938 - Princess Beatrix o the Netherlands 1945 - Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale o Richmond , Inglis juidge1956 - Artur Mas , Catalan politeecian1968 - John Collins , Scots fitbawer1970 - Minnie Driver , Inglis actress1973 - Portia de Rossi , Australian actress1977 - Kerry Washington , American actress1979 - Daniel Tammet , Inglis novelist, poet an translator1981 - Justin Timberlake , American sangster an actor1982 - Allan McGregor , Scots fitbawer1982 - Elena Paparizou , Greek sangster1985 - Christophe Berra , Scots fitbawer
Daiths
2016 : Statue o Sir Terry Wogan in Limerick 1606 - Guy Fawkes , Inglis conspirator, executit (b. 1570 )1729 - Jacob Roggeveen , Dutch splorer (b. 1659 )1788 - Charles Edward Stuart , Jacobite pretender (b. 1720 )1865 - Hugh Falconer , Scots geologist, botanist an palaeontologist (b. 1808 )1900 - John Douglas, 9t Marquess o Queensberry , Scots nobleman (b. 1844 )1933 - John Galsworthy , Inglis novelist an playwricht (b. 1867 )1953 - David Broadfoot , Scots seaman (b. 1899 )1955 - John Mott , American activist (b. 1865 )1956 - A. A. Milne , Inglis writer (b. 1882 )1982 - Peter Ritchie Calder , Scots author, jurnalist an academic (b. 1906 )2006 - Moira Shearer , Scots actress an dancer (b. 1926 )2011 - Stuart Hood , Scots novelist, translator an telly producer (b. 1915 )2015 - Richard von Weizsaecker , Preses o Germany (b. 1920 )2016 - Sir Terry Wogan , Erse-Breetish braidcaster (b. 1938 )2020 - Mary Higgins Clark , American writer (b. 1927 )
Halidays
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