Notable Historical Events on January 31st
January 31st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
314 |
St Silvester I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
876 |
Charles becomes king of Italy |
1504 |
By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon |
1531 |
Kings Ferdinand of Austria/Janos Zapolyai of Hungary accept each other |
1578 |
Battle of Gembloers (Gembloux); Dutch and English forces overcame the Spanish |
1596 |
Catholic League disjoins |
1609 |
Wisselbank of Amsterdam established |
1627 |
Spanish government goes bankrupt |
1675 |
Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft |
1679 |
Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon," premieres in Paris |
1696 |
Revolt by undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam) |
1747 |
The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. |
1779 |
Charles Messier adds M57 (Ring Nebula in Lyra) to his catalog |
1804 |
British vice-admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao |
1814 |
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina. |
1817 |
Franz Grillparzer's "Die Ahnfrau," premieres in Vienna |
1846 |
After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
1849 |
Corn Laws abolished in Britain |
1851 |
Gail Borden announces invention of condensed milk |
1851 |
SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded |
1854 |
Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute) |
1855 |
Western railroads blocked by snow |
1861 |
Friedrich Hebbel's "Siegfrieds Tod," premieres in Weimar |
1861 |
State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans (U.S Civil War) |
1862 |
Astronomer Alvan Graham Clark makes first observation of Sirius B (first known white dwarf star) in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts while testing his new telescope |
1863 |
1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army |
1865 |
Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24) |
1865 |
Gen Robert E. Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies during US Civil War |
1867 |
Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria |
1871 |
Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkening the sky |
1874 |
Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri |
1876 |
The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations. |
1891 |
The first attempt of a Portuguese republican revolution breakes out in the northern city of Porto. |
1893 |
"Westminster Gazette" begins publishing |
1895 |
Jose Martí & others leave NYC for invasion of Spanish Cuba |
1900 |
The final report of the USA's Philippine Commission is released, favouring territorial government for the islands with home rule in local affairs, but with US assumptions of ultimate responsibility for the government. |
1901 |
Boer general John Smuts & De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal |
1901 |
Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at Moscow Art Theater |
1901 |
Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montreal Shamrocks in 2 for Stanley Cup |
1901 |
Austro-Hungarian Empire: The Reichsrath, disolved on 7 September 1900 by Employer Franz Joseph, reopens after the recent elections have defeated extremists |
1904 |
Bela Bartok's symphony "Kossuth," premieres |
1905 |
1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach |
1905 |
Carroll Wright appointed 1st Commissioner of Labor, USA |
1906 |
Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter |
1911 |
Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site |
1915 |
1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians |
1916 |
Dutch Girl Guides form |
1917 |
Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship |
1917 |
Mexican President Carranza announces a new constitution with many liberal elements; most of which his regime will not implement |
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. |
1919 |
The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. Troops deployed against protesters for fear of a Bolshevik uprising. |
1920 |
1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in US (NYC) begins publication |
1920 |
Joe Malone, Quebec Bulldogs, sets NHL record with 7 goals in a game |
1920 |
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, at Howard University, incorporates |
1925 |
Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola |
1927 |
Internationall allied military command in Germany disbands |
1927 |
NL Pres John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals & play for the Giants |
1928 |
Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company |
1929 |
Erich Maria Remarque publishes "Im Westen nichts Neues" in Berlin |
1929 |
Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey |
1930 |
1st US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, NJ |
1931 |
NHL's Quebec Bulldogs' Joseph Malone scores a record 7 goals |
1931 |
Philip Barry's "Tomorrow & Tomorrow," premieres in NYC |
1932 |
US railway unions accept 10% wage reduction |
1933 |
French government of Daladier takes power |
1933 |
Hitler promises parliamentary democracy |
1934 |
FDR devalus dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce |
1936 |
"Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit |
1940 |
40 U boats sunk this month (111,000 ton) |
1940 |
C Turney & J Horwin's "My Dear Children," premieres in NYC |
1941 |
21 U boats sunk this month (127,000 ton) |
1941 |
Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands |
1941 |
Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
1941 |
Layforce set sail. |
1942 |
62 U boats sunk this month (327,000 ton) |
1943 |
39 U boats sunk this month (203,100 ton) |
1943 |
Chile breaks contact with Germany & Japan |
1943 |
Gen Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad |
1944 |
Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June |
1944 |
U-592 sunk off Ireland |
1944 |
US forces invade Kwajalein Atoll |
1945 |
US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath |
1945 |
Russian troops reach the Oder River, less that 50 miles from Berlin |
1946 |
Yugoslavia adopts new constitution, becomes a federal republic |
1948 |
J D Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in NY |
1948 |
Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway |
1949 |
1st daytime soap on TV "These Are My Children" (NBC in Chicago) |
1950 |
President Harry Truman publicly announces support for development of Hydogen bomb |
1952 |
Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1½ centuries |
1952 |
Harry Heilmann & Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1953 |
"Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die |
1953 |
Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning 1,835 |
1953 |
NY, Cleveland, & Boston retaliate at Bill Veeck, forcing the Browns to play afternoon games to avoid sharing TV revenues |
1955 |
RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer |
1956 |
French government of Mollet forms |
1956 |
Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of Brazil |
1956 |
Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France. |
1957 |
Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished |
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 |
"Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host |
1958 |
James van Allen discovers radiation belt |
1958 |
US launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1 |
1959 |
Joe Cronin signs 7 year pact to become head of AL |
1961 |
David Ben-Gurion resigns as Prime Minister of Israel |
1961 |
Ham the chimpanzee is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2 |
1961 |
Houston voters approve bond to finance luxury domed stadium |
1961 |
Kanhai completes twin tons (117 & 115) v Aust at Adelaide |
1961 |
NATO secretary-general Paul-Henri Spaak says he'll resign |
1961 |
USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights |
1962 |
Gen Charles P Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
1962 |
Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout" |
1963 |
Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "What'd I Say" & "Ruby Baby" |
1964 |
US report "Smoking & Health" connects smoking to lung cancer |
1965 |
Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1966 |
Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers |
1966 |
USSR launches Luna 9 towards Moon |
1968 |
Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 v India in his last Test for ten years |
1968 |
Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia |
1968 |
Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, USSR |
1968 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1968 |
Viet Cong Tet offensive begins |
1969 |
Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
1970 |
Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges |
1971 |
"My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on UK pop chart |
1971 |
Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands |
1971 |
Jake Beckley, Joe Kelley, Harry Hooper, Rube Marquard, Chick Hafey |
1971 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
1971 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich |
1971 |
& Dave Bancroft & George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1972 |
Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral |
1972 |
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev becomes 11th King of Nepal |
1972 |
Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana |
1972 |
US launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998) |
1972 |
British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling makes statement to the House of Commons on the events of 'Bloody Sunday' "The Army returned the fire directed at them with aimed shots and inflicted a number of casualties on those who were attacking them with firearms and with bombs" |
1974 |
McDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres |
1975 |
Barry Manilow's "Mandy" goes gold |
1975 |
John Lennon releases "#9 Dream" |
1975 |
UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship |
1976 |
"Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1 |
1976 |
Lance Gibbs becomes highest Test wicket-taker at 308 |
1976 |
3rd American Music Award: Olivia Newton-John & John Denver win |
1977 |
Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad |
1977 |
Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, & Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1977 |
4th American Music Award: Olivia Newton-John & Elton John win |
1978 |
"Elvis: The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 101 perfs |
1978 |
Israel turns 3 milt outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements |
1980 |
Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41 |
1981 |
"The Tide Is High" by Blondie hits #1 |
1981 |
38th Golden Globes: Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter |
1981 |
Gaetan Boucher skates world record 1000m (1:13.39) |
1982 |
10 Arabian oryx (extinct except in zoos) released in Oman |
1982 |
12th AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 16-13 |
1982 |
32nd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 120-118 at New Jersey |
1982 |
Gustafson skates world record 10 km (14:26.59) |
1982 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek |
1982 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 16-13 |
1982 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
1984 |
36th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-6 at NJ |
1984 |
Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network |
1984 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1985 |
"Harrigan 'n Hart" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1985 |
South African president PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence |
1986 |
Mary Lund of Minn, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart |
1987 |
44th Golden Globes: Platoon, Marlee Matlin win |
1987 |
United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp |
1988 |
Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil |
1988 |
Super Bowl XXII: Wash Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10 in San Diego Super Bowl MVP: Doug Williams, Washington, QB |
1990 |
1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds |
1990 |
1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing |
1990 |
Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ |
1990 |
The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow, USSR. |
1991 |
Nugget's Michael Adams becomes shortest NBAer to get a triple-double |
1991 |
Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude |
1992 |
MTA raised tolls on most NYC bridges from $2.50 to $3.00 |
1993 |
"St Joan" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 49 performances |
1993 |
81st Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (62 61 26 75) |
1993 |
Super Bowl XXVII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 52-17 in Pasadena Super Bowl MVP: Troy Aikman, Dallas, QB |
1994 |
Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down |
1994 |
Dow Jones hits a record 3,978.36 |
1995 |
President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy. |
1998 |
72nd Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats C Martinez (63 63) |
1998 |
STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands |
1999 |
Seth MacFarlane's "Family Guy" first airs on Fox |
2000 |
Alaska Airlines flight 261 MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard. |
2000 |
A fight between Ray Lewis and his companions and another group of people results in the stabbing deaths of Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar, resulting in the indictment of Lewis 11 days on murder and aggravated-assault charges |
2001 |
In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. |
2003 |
The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia. |
2006 |
Alan Greenspan retires as Chairman of the Federal Reserve |
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. |
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. |
2010 |
52nd Grammy Awards: Use Somebody, Zac Brown Band wins |
2010 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-34 |
2013 |
300 people are injured in a train collision in Pretoria, South Africa |
2013 |
36 people are killed and 126 are injured in an explosion at Torre Ejecutiva Pemex, Mexico |
2016 |
Novak Djokovic Beats Andy Murray to Win Australian Open |
2016 |
China Strongly Condemns US for Sending Warship Near Island |
2016 |
Palestinian Officer Is Killed After Attacking Three Israeli Soldiers |
2016 |
In Tanzania, 3 charged in death of helicopter pilot who protected elephants |
2016 |
Boko Haram kills dozens in raid near Nigeria refugee camp |
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