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What happend on 31. January in History
In our data base we found 312 events happened on 31. January:
• 314: Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades. [category: Events]
• 877: Taejo of Goryeo of Korea (d. 943) [category: Births]
• 1216: Theodore II Eirenikos, Patriarch of Constantinople [category: Deaths]
• 1398: Emperor Sukō (b. 1334) [category: Deaths]
• 1435: Emperor Xuande of China (b. 1398) [category: Deaths]
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• 1504: France cedes Naples to Aragon. [category: Events]
• 1512: King Henry of Portugal (d. 1580) [category: Births]
• 1543: Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun of Japan (d. 1616) [category: Births]
• 1550: Henry I, Duke of Guise (d. 1588) [category: Births]
• 1561: Bairam Khan, Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar [category: Deaths]
• 1561: Menno Simons, Dutch Mennonite leader (b. 1496) [category: Deaths]
• 1580: King Henry of Portugal (b. 1512) [category: Deaths]
• 1597: John Francis Regis, French saint (d. 1640) [category: Births]
• 1606: Ambrose Rokewood – Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. c.1578) [category: Deaths]
• 1606: Guy Fawkes – Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. 1570) [category: Deaths]
• 1606: Thomas Wintour – Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. 1571) [category: Deaths]
• 1606: Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England. [category: Events]
• 1615: Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543) [category: Deaths]
• 1624: Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (d. 1669) [category: Births]
• 1632: Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552) [category: Deaths]
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• 1665: Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622) [category: Deaths]
• 1673: Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest and saint (d. 1716) [category: Births]
• 1686: Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (d. 1758) [category: Births]
• 1686: Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604) [category: Deaths]
• 1720: Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (b. c. 1654) [category: Deaths]
• 1729: Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659) [category: Deaths]
• 1736: Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (b. 1678) [category: Deaths]
• 1747: The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. [category: Events]
• 1752: Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (d. 1816) [category: Births]
• 1759: François Devienne, French composer (d. 1803) [category: Births]
• 1788: Charles Edward Stuart, the exiled Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1720) [category: Deaths]
• 1790: Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (b. 1718) [category: Deaths]
• 1794: Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711) [category: Deaths]
• 1797: Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (d. 1828) [category: Births]
• 1801: John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States. [category: Events]
• 1811: Manuel Alberti, Argentine priest and head of state (b. 1763) [category: Deaths]
• 1814: Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina. [category: Events]
• 1815: José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775) [category: Deaths]
• 1820: William B. Washburn, American politician and 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887) [category: Births]
• 1825: Miska Magyarics, Slovene poet in Hungary (d. 1883) [category: Births]
• 1828: Alexander Ypsilantis, Phanariot Greek military commander and national hero of the Greek War of Independence (b. 1792) [category: Deaths]
• 1835: King William Charles Lunalilo of Hawaiʻi (d. 1874) [category: Births]
• 1836: John Cheyne (physician), British physician, surgeon and author (b. 1777) [category: Deaths]
• 1844: Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (b. 1773) [category: Deaths]
• 1846: After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [category: Events]
• 1848: John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders. [category: Events]
• 1849: Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846). [category: Events]
• 1856: Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama (b. 1838) [category: Deaths]
• 1857: George Jackson Churchward, British railroad engineer. (d. 1933) [category: Births]
• 1862: Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University. [category: Events]
• 1865: Henri Desgrange, French sports figure and journalist (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1865: Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1865: American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1867: Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria [category: Events]
• 1868: Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1872: Zane Grey, American novelist (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1881: Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1884: Nathaniel Moore, American golfer (d. 1910) [category: Births]
• 1884: Theodor Heuss, German statesman (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1888: John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815) [category: Deaths]
• 1889: Frank Foster, English cricketer (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1891: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto. [category: Events]
• 1892: Eddie Cantor, American actor and singer (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1892: Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (b. 1834) [category: Deaths]
• 1894: Isham Jones, American bandleader and musician (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1896: Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1900: Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion [category: Events]
• 1902: Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1902: Nat Bailey, Canadian restaurateur (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1902: Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1905: Diana Napier, British actress (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1905: John O'Hara, American writer (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1907: Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834) [category: Deaths]
• 1909: Miron Grindea, Romanian literary journalist and editor (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1911: Eddie Byrne, British actor (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1913: Don Hutson, American football player (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1914: Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1914: Faye Wright, American spiritual figure (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1914: Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1915: Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1915: Garry Moore, American comedian (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1915: Thomas Merton, American author and monk (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1915: World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia. [category: Events]
• 1917: World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1919: Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1919: The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. [category: Events]
• 1920: Bert Williams, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1920: Stewart Udall, American politician and 37th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1921: Carol Channing, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1921: E. Fay Jones, American architect (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1921: John Agar, American actor (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1921: Mario Lanza, American singer (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1922: Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1923: Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1923: Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (b. 1869) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Benjamin Hooks, American civil rights activist (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1926: Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1927: Norm Prescott, American animation producer (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1928: Chuck Willis, American singer and songwriter (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1929: Jean Simmons, English American actress (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1929: Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate [category: Births]
• 1929: The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky. [category: Events]
• 1930: Joakim Bonnier, Swedish race car driver (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1930: Lynn Carlin, American actress [category: Births]
• 1930: 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape. [category: Events]
• 1931: Christopher Chataway, English athlete, newscaster and politician [category: Births]
• 1931: Ernie Banks, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1933: Bernardo Provenzano, Sicilian organized crime figure [category: Births]
• 1933: Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1933: John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1934: James Franciscus, American actor (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1935: Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer, Nobel laureate [category: Births]
• 1937: Andrée Boucher, Canadian politician (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1937: Philip Glass, American composer [category: Births]
• 1937: Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor [category: Births]
• 1937: Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1938: James G. Watt, American politician and 43rd United States Secretary of the Interior [category: Births]
• 1938: Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands [category: Births]
• 1939: Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1940: Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1941: Gerald McDermott, American filmmaker, children’s book author & illustrator [category: Births]
• 1941: Jessica Walter, American actress [category: Births]
• 1941: Richard A. Gephardt, American politician [category: Births]
• 1942: Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress [category: Births]
• 1942: Derek Jarman, British director and writer (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1942: Henry Larkin, American baseball player (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1944: Charlie Musselwhite, American musician [category: Births]
• 1944: Connie Booth, American writer and actress [category: Births]
• 1944: Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1945: Joseph Kosuth, American conceptual artist [category: Births]
• 1945: Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1946: Glynn Turman, American actor [category: Births]
• 1946: Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1946: Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia). [category: Events]
• 1947: Jonathan Banks, American actor [category: Births]
• 1947: Nolan Ryan, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1948: Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician [category: Births]
• 1948: Volkmar Groß, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1949: Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and sports journalist [category: Births]
• 1949: Ken Wilber, American author [category: Births]
• 1949: Norris Church Mailer, American model and widow of Norman Mailer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1950: Alexander Korzhakov, Soviet bodyguard for Boris Yeltsin [category: Births]
• 1950: President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb. [category: Events]
• 1951: Dave Benton, Aruban singer [category: Births]
• 1951: Harry Wayne Casey, American singer and musician (KC and the Sunshine Band) [category: Births]
• 1951: Phil Manzanera, English guitarist (Roxy Music, Quiet Sun, 801) [category: Births]
• 1952: Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1953: A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom [category: Events]
• 1954: Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch musician (Whitesnake) [category: Births]
• 1954: Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1954: Edwin Howard Armstrong, American electrical engineer and inventor of the FM radio (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: John Lydon, English singer (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.) [category: Births]
• 1956: A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Shirley Babashoff, American swimmer [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1958: Armin Reichel, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1958: Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit. [category: Events]
• 1958: James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt. [category: Events]
• 1959: Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor [category: Births]
• 1959: Kelly Lynch, American actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Kelly Moore, American stock car driver [category: Births]
• 1960: Akbar Ganji, Iranian dissident journalist [category: Births]
• 1960: Grant Morrison, British comic author [category: Births]
• 1961: Fatou Bensouda, Gambian lawyer, International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Trial Attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda [category: Births]
• 1961: Lloyd Cole, British singer (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions) [category: Births]
• 1961: Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space. [category: Events]
• 1962: Sophie Muller, British music video director [category: Births]
• 1964: Billey Shamrock, Swedish singer [category: Births]
• 1964: Dawn Prince-Hughes, American primatologist [category: Births]
• 1964: Jeff Hanneman, American musician (Slayer) [category: Births]
• 1964: Martha MacCallum, American news anchor [category: Births]
• 1964: Sylvie Bernier, Canadian diver [category: Births]
• 1966: Dexter Fletcher, English actor [category: Births]
• 1966: Dr Umar Alisha, Indian Sufi master [category: Births]
• 1966: General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army Officer (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program. [category: Events]
• 1967: Chad Channing, American musician (Nirvana) [category: Births]
• 1967: Fat Mike, American musician (NOFX and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes) [category: Births]
• 1967: Irene Wan, Hong Kong actress [category: Births]
• 1967: Jason Cooper, English musician (The Cure) [category: Births]
• 1967: Joey Wong, Taiwanese actress [category: Births]
• 1967: Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Matt King, British actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1968: Patrick Stevens, Belgian athlete [category: Births]
• 1968: Nauru gains independence from Australia. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1969: Meher Baba, Indian guru (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Danny Michel, Canadian singer/songwriter [category: Births]
• 1970: Minnie Driver, British actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Dimitris Markos, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Lee Young Ae, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Patricia Velásquez, Venezuelan actress and model [category: Births]
• 1971: Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian [category: Births]
• 1971: Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1973: Portia de Rossi, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1973: Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Othella Harrington, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Wil Anderson, Australian comedian [category: Births]
• 1974: Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Fred Coleman, American football player [category: Births]
• 1975: Jackie O, Australian radio host [category: Births]
• 1975: Preity Zinta, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Buddy Rice, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1976: Paul Scheer, American comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Tyrone Nesby, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Bobby Moynihan, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1977: Jim Kleinsasser, American football player [category: Births]
• 1977: Kate Shindle, American actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Kerry Washington, American actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Mark Dutiaume, Canadian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1977: Shingo Katori, Japanese actor and singer (SMAP) [category: Births]
• 1978: Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington, English noble [category: Births]
• 1978: Brad Rutter, American game show contestant, the biggest all-time money winner on Jeopardy! [category: Births]
• 1978: Fabián Caballero, Argentinian footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Ray Shah, Irish radio presenter [category: Births]
• 1979: Daniel Tammet, British savant and author [category: Births]
• 1979: Emmett Scanlan, Irish actor [category: Births]
• 1980: James Adomian, American actor [category: Births]
• 1980: Tiffany Limos, American actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Amrita Arora, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Julio Arca, Argentinian footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Justin Timberlake, American singer ('N Sync) [category: Births]
• 1982: Allan McGregor, Scottish football player [category: Births]
• 1982: Andreas Görlitz, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Brad Thompson, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Bruno Nogueira, Portuguese actor, comedian and TV host [category: Births]
• 1982: Elena Paparizou, Greek singer (Antique) [category: Births]
• 1982: Jānis Sprukts, Latvian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1982: Salvatore Masiello, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Yuniesky Betancourt, Cuban baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Fabio Quagliarella, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: James Sutton, British actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Tom Vangeneugden, Belgian swimmer [category: Births]
• 1984: Alessandro Zanni, Italian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1984: Jeremy Wariner, American track and field athlete [category: Births]
• 1984: Vernon Davis, American football player [category: Births]
• 1985: Adam Federici, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Kalomira, American/Greek singer [category: Births]
• 1985: Mario Williams, American football player [category: Births]
• 1986: Pauline Parmentier, French tennis player [category: Births]
• 1986: Yves Ma-Kalambay, Belgian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Kenny McKinley, American football player (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1987: Marcus Mumford, English Musician [category: Births]
• 1987: Raúl Richter, German actor [category: Births]
• 1987: Sargon Duran, Austrian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Yves Allégret, French film director (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Justine Ozga, German tennis player [category: Births]
• 1989: Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepid. Inspiration for James Bond. (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Jacopo Fortunato, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Kota Yabu, Japanese actor and singer (Hey! Say! JUMP) [category: Births]
• 1990: Nicolò De Cesare, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow. [category: Events]
• 1991: Kostas Mountakis, Greek musician (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Tyler Seguin, Canadian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1994: Kenneth Zohore, Danish footballer [category: Births]
• 1995: George Abbott, American stage director and producer (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy. [category: Events]
• 1996: Joel Courtney, American actor [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1996: Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake. [category: Events]
• 1997: John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2001: Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2002: Francis Gabreski, American, fighter pilot ace (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia. [category: Events]
• 2004: Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Moira Shearer, Scottish actress and ballerina (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Adelaide Tambo, South African activist, widow of Oliver Tambo (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Kirill "Kirka" Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2008: Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug dog (b. 1997) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Nagesh, Indian comedian and actor (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2010: Avatar became the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide. [category: Events]
• 2011: Eunice Sanborn, American supercentenarian, world's oldest living person at time of her death (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Mark Ryan, British musician (Adam and the Ants) (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: A winter storm hit North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damages across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people. [category: Events]
• 2012: Dorothea Tanning, American visual artist (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Leslie Carter, American reality star, sister of Nick and Aaron Carter (b. 1986) [category: Deaths]
• 36_bc: Antonia Minor, daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor (d. 38 AD) [category: Births]
• _: Blessed Ludovica [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Geminianus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Nauru from Australia in 1968. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: January 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: John Bosco [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Marcella [category: Holidays and observances]