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Day Of The Week: January 31
January 31, 2025 is the 31st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 334 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aquarius is your zodiac sign. Garnet is your modern birthstone. Emerald is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: January 31
- 1606 –Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
- 1862 –Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5 in telescope now located at Northwestern University.
- 1945 –US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
- 1950 –President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
- 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.
- 1958 –James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2014 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Horse in Chinese astrology.
Who were born on January 31?
- 1889 –Frank Foster, English cricketer (d. 1958)
- 1921 –E. Fay Jones, American architect (d. 2004)
- 1945 –Joseph Kosuth, American conceptual artist
- 1954 –Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch musician (Whitesnake)
- 1959 –Kelly Moore, American stock car driver
- 1962 –Sophie Muller, British music video director
- 1971 –Lee Young Ae, South Korean actress
- 1974 –Wil Anderson, Australian comedian
- 1976 –Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer
- 1981 –Amrita Arora, Indian actress
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