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Day Of The Week: January 31

What day of the week?

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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