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Events on the 31st of January in history

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31 Jan 0314 Pope Sylvester I succeeds Pope Miltiades.
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31 Jan 0314 St Silvester I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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31 Jan 0876 Charles becomes king of Italy
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31 Jan 1504 France cedes Naples to Aragon.
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31 Jan 1504 By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon
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31 Jan 1531 Kings Ferdinand of Austria/J
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31 Jan 1560 Spanish king Philip II marries Elisabeth van Valois
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31 Jan 1578 The Battle of Gembloux takes place.
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31 Jan 1578 Battle of Gembloers
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31 Jan 1596 Catholic League disjoins
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31 Jan 1606 Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.
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31 Jan 1609 Wisselbank of Amsterdam established
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31 Jan 1627 Spanish government goes bankrupt
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31 Jan 1675 Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft
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31 Jan 1679 Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bell
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31 Jan 1696 Revolt of undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam)
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31 Jan 1747 The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
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31 Jan 1779 Charles Messier adds M57 (Ring Nebula in Lyra) to his catalog
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31 Jan 1801 John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
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31 Jan 1804 British Vice-Admiral William Bligh's fleet reaches Cura
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31 Jan 1814 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina).
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31 Jan 1817 Franz Grillparzer's "Die Ahnfrau" premieres in Vienna
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31 Jan 1842 John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in the White House
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31 Jan 1846 After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee.
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31 Jan 1848 John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
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31 Jan 1849 Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846.
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31 Jan 1849 Corn Laws abolished in Britain
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31 Jan 1851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California founded
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31 Jan 1851 Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk
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31 Jan 1854 Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute)
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31 Jan 1855 Western railroads blocked by snow
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31 Jan 1861 State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans
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31 Jan 1861 Friedrich Hebbel's "Siegfrieds Tod" premieres in Weimar
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31 Jan 1862 Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
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31 Jan 1862 Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
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31 Jan 1863 1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army
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31 Jan 1865 Gen Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
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31 Jan 1865 American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
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31 Jan 1865 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
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31 Jan 1865 Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
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31 Jan 1867 Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Bey Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria.
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31 Jan 1871 Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darken the sky
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31 Jan 1874 Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri
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31 Jan 1891 History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
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31 Jan 1893 "Westminster Gazette" begins publishing
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31 Jan 1893 "Westminster Gazette" begins publishing
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31 Jan 1895 Jos
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31 Jan 1897 Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
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31 Jan 1900 Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
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31 Jan 1901 Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at the Moscow Art Theater
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31 Jan 1901 Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montr
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31 Jan 1901 Boer General John Smuts & De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal
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31 Jan 1904 B
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31 Jan 1905 1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach
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31 Jan 1905 Carroll Wright appointed 1st US Commissioner of Labor
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31 Jan 1906 Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter
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31 Jan 1911 Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site
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31 Jan 1911 Congress names San Francisco as Panam
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31 Jan 1915 World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
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31 Jan 1915 1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians
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31 Jan 1916 Dutch Girl Guides form
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31 Jan 1917 World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
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31 Jan 1917 Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship
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31 Jan 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.
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31 Jan 1919 The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
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31 Jan 1920 1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in US (New York City NY) begins publication
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31 Jan 1920 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, at Howard University, incorporates
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31 Jan 1920 Joe Malone, Qu
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31 Jan 1925 Premier Ahmed Zogu (Zogu I) becomes President of Albania
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31 Jan 1927 International allies military command in Germany disbands
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31 Jan 1927 National League President John Heydler rules Roger Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals & play for the Giants
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31 Jan 1928 Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company
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31 Jan 1929 Erich Maria Remarques publishes "Im West nieces Neues" in Berlin
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31 Jan 1929 The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
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31 Jan 1929 Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
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31 Jan 1930 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
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31 Jan 1930 1st US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst New Jersey
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31 Jan 1931 Philip Barry's "Tomorrow & Tomorrow" premieres in New York City NY
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31 Jan 1932 US railway unions accept 10% wage reduction
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31 Jan 1933 French government of Daladier takes power
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31 Jan 1933 Hitler promises parliamentary democracy
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31 Jan 1934 FDR devalues the dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce
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31 Jan 1935 30.5 cm (12.0") of rain falls, Quinault RS WA (state record)
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31 Jan 1936 "Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit
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31 Jan 1940 C Turney & J Horwin's "My Dear Children" premieres in New York City NY
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31 Jan 1941 Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands
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31 Jan 1941 Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
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31 Jan 1942 World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
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31 Jan 1943 World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
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31 Jan 1943 39 U boats sunk this month (203,100 ton)
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31 Jan 1943 Chile breaks contact with Germany & Japan
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31 Jan 1943 General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad
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31 Jan 1944 World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
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31 Jan 1944 World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
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31 Jan 1944 Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June
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31 Jan 1944 U-592 sunk off Ireland
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31 Jan 1944 US forces invade Kwajalein Atoll
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31 Jan 1945 World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.
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31 Jan 1945 World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
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31 Jan 1945 US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
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31 Jan 1945 Eddie Slovik, 1st American executed for desertion since Civil War
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31 Jan 1945 US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath
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31 Jan 1946 The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
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31 Jan 1946 Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
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31 Jan 1946 Yugoslavia adopts new constitution, becomes a federal republic
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31 Jan 1948 J D Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in NY
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31 Jan 1948 Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway
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31 Jan 1949 1st daytime soap on TV "These Are My Children" (NBC in Chicago)
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31 Jan 1949 These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
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31 Jan 1950 President Truman OKs building of hydrogen bomb
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31 Jan 1950 United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
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31 Jan 1950 President Truman reveals that he ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to develop the hydrogen bomb
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31 Jan 1952 Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1
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31 Jan 1952 Harry Heilmann & Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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31 Jan 1953 "Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die
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31 Jan 1953 A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom
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31 Jan 1953 Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning nearly 2,000
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31 Jan 1953 New York, Cleveland & Boston retaliate at Bill Veeck, forcing the Browns to play afternoon games to avoid sharing TV revenues
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31 Jan 1955 RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer
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31 Jan 1956 French government of Mollet forms
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31 Jan 1956 Juscelino Kubitschek becomes President of Brazil
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31 Jan 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.
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31 Jan 1957 Liz Taylor's 2nd divorce (Michael Wilding)
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31 Jan 1957 Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished
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31 Jan 1958 "Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host
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31 Jan 1958 James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
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31 Jan 1958 Explorer program: Explorer 1: The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
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31 Jan 1958 US launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1
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31 Jan 1959 Joe Cronin signs 7 year pact to become head of AL
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31 Jan 1960 Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress/singer Phyllis Newman in New York City NY
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31 Jan 1961 Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
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31 Jan 1961 Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2
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31 Jan 1961 USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights
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31 Jan 1961 David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel
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31 Jan 1961 Houston voters approve bond to finance luxury domed stadium
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31 Jan 1961 Kanhai completes twin tons (117 & 115) vs Australia at Adelaide
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31 Jan 1961 NATO secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak says he'll resign
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31 Jan 1962 Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout"
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31 Jan 1962 General Charles P Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA
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31 Jan 1963 Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers record "What'd I Say" & "Ruby Baby"
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31 Jan 1964 US report "Smoking & Health" connects smoking to lung cancer
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31 Jan 1965 Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
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31 Jan 1966 The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
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31 Jan 1966 USSR launches Luna 9 toward the Moon
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31 Jan 1966 Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers
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31 Jan 1968 Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, USSR
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31 Jan 1968 Nauru gains independence from Australia.
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31 Jan 1968 Vietnam War: Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
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31 Jan 1968 Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins
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31 Jan 1968 Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 vs India in his last Test for ten years
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31 Jan 1968 Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia
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31 Jan 1969 Beatles perform last live gig (42-min concert on roof of Apple HQs)
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31 Jan 1969 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA
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31 Jan 1970 Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges
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31 Jan 1971 "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on UK pop chart
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31 Jan 1971 & Dave Bancroft and George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame
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31 Jan 1971 Jake Beckley, Joe Kelley, Harry Hooper, Rube Marquard, Chick Hafey
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31 Jan 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, begins in Detroit.
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31 Jan 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.
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31 Jan 1971 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands
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31 Jan 1971 Jake Beckley, Joe Kelley, Harry Hooper, Rube Marquard, Chick Hafey & Dave Bancroft & George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame
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31 Jan 1971 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
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31 Jan 1971 US male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich
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31 Jan 1972 Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana
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31 Jan 1972 US launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998)
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31 Jan 1972 Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral
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31 Jan 1972 Birenda, becomes leader of Nepal
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31 Jan 1974 McDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres
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31 Jan 1975 John Lennon releases "#9 Dream"
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31 Jan 1975 John Lennon's "#9 Dream" is released
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31 Jan 1975 Barry Manilow's "Mandy" goes gold
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31 Jan 1975 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
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31 Jan 1976 "Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1
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31 Jan 1976 Lance Gibbs becomes highest Test wicket-taker at 308
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31 Jan 1977 Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad
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31 Jan 1977 Frenchman Fran
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31 Jan 1977 Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, & Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame
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31 Jan 1978 "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 101 performances
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31 Jan 1978 Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements
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31 Jan 1978 "Elvis The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater New York City NY for 101 performances
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31 Jan 1980 Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41
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31 Jan 1981 "The Tide Is High" by Blondie hits #1
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31 Jan 1981 "The Tide Is High" by Blondie hits #1
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31 Jan 1981 38th Golden Globes Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter
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31 Jan 1981 Gaetan Boucher skates world record 1000m (1 13.39)
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31 Jan 1982 12th AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 16-13
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31 Jan 1982 10 Arabian oryx (extinct except in zoos) released in Oman
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31 Jan 1982 12th NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 16-13
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31 Jan 1982 32nd NBA All-Star Game East beats West 120-118 at New Jersey
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31 Jan 1982 Gustafson skates world record 10 km (14 26.59)
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31 Jan 1982 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
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31 Jan 1982 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
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31 Jan 1984 36th NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 7-6 at New Jersey
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31 Jan 1984 Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network
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31 Jan 1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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31 Jan 1985 South African President PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence
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31 Jan 1985 "Harrigan 'n Hart" opens at Longacre Theater New York City NY for 5 performances
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31 Jan 1986 Mary Lund of Minnesota, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart
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31 Jan 1987 United Steelworkers union ratified a concessionary contract with USX Corp
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31 Jan 1987 44th Golden Globes Platoon, Marlee Matlin win
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31 Jan 1988 Barge sinks near Anacortes WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil
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31 Jan 1988 Super Bowl XXII Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10 in San Diego; Super Bowl MVP Doug Williams, Washington, Quarterback
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31 Jan 1990 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
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31 Jan 1990 Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ
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31 Jan 1990 The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
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31 Jan 1990 1st McDonald's in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonald's
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31 Jan 1990 The 1st ever all-sports daily "The National" begins publishing
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31 Jan 1991 Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude
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31 Jan 1991 Battle for Khafji in Saudi Arabia (ends after 3 days)
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31 Jan 1991 Nugget's Michael Adams becomes shortest NBAer to get a triple-double
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31 Jan 1992 MTA raised tolls on most New York City NY bridges from $2.50 to $3.00
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31 Jan 1992 Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires
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31 Jan 1993 "St Joan" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 49 performances
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31 Jan 1993 "St Joan" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City NY for 49 performances
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31 Jan 1993 81st Australian Men's Tennis Jim Courier beats Stefan Edberg (62 61 26 75)
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31 Jan 1993 Super Bowl XXVII Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 52-17 in Pasadena; Super Bowl MVP Troy Aikman, Dallas, Quarterback
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31 Jan 1994 Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down
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31 Jan 1994 Dow Jones hits a record 3,978.36
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31 Jan 1995 President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
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31 Jan 1996 Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
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31 Jan 1996 An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
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31 Jan 1998 72nd Australian Women's Tennis Martina Hingis beats C Martinez (63 63)
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31 Jan 1998 STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands
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31 Jan 1999 Super Bowl XXXIII Denver Broncos beat Atlanta Falcons in Miami; Super Bowl MVP John Elway, Denver, Quarterback
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31 Jan 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.
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31 Jan 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.
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31 Jan 2003 The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
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31 Jan 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.
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31 Jan 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.
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31 Jan 2010 Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
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31 Jan 2011 A winter storm hits North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people.
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31 Jan 2013 An explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City kills at least 33 people and injures more than 100.
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