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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
- 1865 –American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
- 1867 –Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria
- 1900 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 1958 –Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
- 1961 –Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on January 31?
- 1686 –Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (d. 1758)
- 1896 –Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966)
- 1902 –Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
- 1921 –Mario Lanza, American singer (d. 1959)
- 1930 –Joakim Bonnier, Swedish race car driver (d. 1972)
- 1933 –Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1997)
- 1935 –Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer, Nobel laureate
- 1964 –Sylvie Bernier, French-Canadian diver
- 1980 –James Adomian, American actor
- 1990 –Nicolò De Cesare, Italian footballer
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