31 January In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, January 31 is the day number 31 in a given year. January 31 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1578	Eighty Years' War: Spain won a crushing victory in the Battle of Gembloux, hastening the disintegration of the unity of the rebel provinces and bringing an end to the Union of Brussels.
1747	The London Lock Hospital, the first clinic specialising in the treatment of venereal diseases, opened.
1747	The Bangalore Disease Clinic opened for the first time at London Lock Hospital.
1801	John Marshall became the fourth Chief Justice of the UnitedStates; his court opinions would help lay the basis for American Constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a coequal branches of government.
1801	John Marshall was appointed as the Chief Justice of the United States.
1814	Gervacio Antonio de Posadas was elected the chief director of Argentina.
1846	After having come to blows over the construction of a bridge,the citizens of two neighboring towns united to form the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1850	The largest mass movement started in China under the name Tae Pingha. Tae Pingha is a Chinese word which means public determination.
1862	American astronomer Alvan Graham Clark first observed the faint white dwarf companion of Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.
1897	The Kajekoslav Trade Union Association was established in Prague.
1900	Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of a series of major disturbances in North Borneo, was shot dead in Tambunan, but his followers did not give up for five more years.
1915	During World War I, Germany used poisonous gas against Russia.
1919	Intense rioting over labour conditions broke out in Glasgow, Scotland, and was only called when the British government sent tanks to restore order.
1942	Second World War: Allied forces retreated from British Malaya to Singapore, ceding control of the country to Japan.
1946	Yugoslavia disintegrated into six countries based on the model of the then Soviet Union (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia).
1951	United States last narrow gauge passenger train "San Juan Express" service terminated.
1953	130 passengers and sailors were killed in a ferry accident in the Irish Sea. The British ferry Princess Victoria was heading to Northern Ireland when the accident occurred.
1958	Explorer 1 the United States' first satellite, waslaunched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and became the first spacecraftto detect the Van Allen radiation belt.
1958	The first American satellite Explorer I was placed into Earth's orbit.
1961	Aboard NASA's Mercury-Redstone 2, Ham the Chimp became the first hominid launched into outer space.
1971	The Vietnam Veterans Against the War opened the Winter SoldierInvestigation, a three-day media event to publicize war crimes and otheratrocities by American forces and their allies during the Vietnam War.
1971	Telephone service was re-established after a gap of 19 years between East and West Berlin.
1972	Birendra Bir Bikram Shah became the 12th king of Nepal.
1983	In the United Kingdom, access was made compulsory for seatbelt drivers and front seat passengers.
1987	Ohrbach's department store closed in New York City after 64 years of operation.
1990	The world's largest Macdonald store opened in Moscow, the capital of Russia.
1991	The shortest NBA player Nugget's Michael Adams got triple double.
1993	In the 81st Australian Men's tennis Jim Courier beats S Edberg by (62 61 26 75) runs and it was a lucky day for Jim.
1994	The grand theatre “Gran Tearlo de Lico” burned down due to some technical problems.
1994	One of the famous player Dow Jones hit a record of 3,978.36.
1996	Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake discovered Comet Hyakutake, which was one of the closest cometary approaches of the previous 200 years.
1996	A suicide attack in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo killed 91 people and injured more than 1,400.
2000	Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashed in the Pacific Ocean, California, killing 88 people.
2001	Scottish judges sitting in court in the Netherlands convicted Libyan national Abdelbaset al-Megrahi of 270 counts of murder in thebombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
2004	Famous playback singer and actress Suraiya Jamal Sheikh died.
2007	Suspects were arrested in Birmingham, UK, accused of plotting to kidnap, and eventually behead, a Muslim British soldier serving in Iraq.
2010	Avatar became the first film to earn over $2 billion worldwide.
2011	A new record took place Burma opened its new parliament. The news spread all over the world.
2011	The people of Egypt vow to continue demonstrating until President Mubarak regime falls.
2012	China government tightens its control of monasteries following deadly protests in Tibet.
2013	A court granted Iceland's Blaer Bjarkardottir the right to use their own name, after previously ruling Blaer was only a man's name.
2013	NASA revealed a lunar mining robot i.e., the Regolith Advanced Surface System Robot which could be used to produce fuel and water directly on the moon.
2013	About 300 people were injured in a train accident in Pretoria in South Africa.
314	Sylvester I, during whose pontificate the great churches of Rome Were built, began his reign as pope.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1599	Britain's first East India Company was established in India at the behest of Queen Elizabeth I of Britain.
1963	The peacock was declared the national bird of India.
2007	Indian steel company Tata Anglo became the fifth largest company in the world after the acquisition of Dutch steel company Corus.

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1923	Somnath Sharma / Army officer / India
1865	Shastriji Maharaj / Spiritual Leader / India
1923	Major Somnath Sharma / Soldier / India
1923	Somnath Sharma / Soldier / India
1949	Rajesh Vivek / Actor / India
1966	Umar Alisha / Journalist / India
1975	Preity Zinta / Actress / India
1981	Amrita Arora / Actress / India

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