SomeFacts | January 31

On this day - January 31

314 — Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope ...

1208 — The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of ...

1266 — The Mudéjar of Murcia, who had rebelled against the Crown of ...

1504 — The Treaty of Lyon ends the Italian War, confirming French ...

1578 — Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War: The Battle of ...

1606 — Gunpowder Plot: Four of the conspirators, including Guy ...

1609 — Wisselbank of Amsterdam established

1703 — Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, ...

1747 — The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock ...

1814 — Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the ...

1846 — After the Milwaukee Bridge War, the United States towns of ...

1848 — John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying ...

1862 — Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a ...

1865 — American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes ...

1865 — American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the ...

1891 — History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese ...

1900 — Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ...

1901 — Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters premieres at Moscow Art ...

1915 — World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of ...

1917 — World War I: Kaiser Wilhelm II orders the resumption of ...

1918 — Finnish Civil War: The Suinula massacre, which changes the ...

1918 — A series of accidental collisions due to poor visibility leads ...

1919 — The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, ...

1928 — Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.

1942 — World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at ...

1943 — World War II: German field marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders ...

1944 — World War II: During the Anzio campaign, the 1st Ranger ...

1944 — World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and ...

1945 — World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 ...

1945 — World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof ...

1945 — US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the ...

1946 — The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to ...

1946 — Cold War: Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of ...

1949 — These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap ...

1951 — United Nations Security Council Resolution 90 relating to the ...

1953 — A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands ...

1957 — Eight people (five total crew from two aircraft and three on ...

1958 — Cold War: Space Race: The Explorer 1, the first successful ...

1961 — Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: The chimpanzee Ham ...

1966 — The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as ...

1968 — Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States ...

1971 — The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam ...

1971 — Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart ...

1978 — The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of ...

1988 — Doug Williams becomes the first African American quarterback ...

1996 — An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central ...

2000 — Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing ...

2001 — Two Japan Airlines planes nearly collide over Suruga Bay in ...

2001 — In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan ...

2003 — The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South ...

2007 — Emergency officials in Boston mistakenly identify ...

2009 — At least 113 people are killed in Kenya and over 200 injured ...

2019 — Abdullah of Pahang is sworn in as the 16th Yang di-Pertuan ...

2020 — The United Kingdom's membership within the European Union ...

2022 — Sue Gray, a senior civil servant in the United Kingdom, ...

2023 — The last Boeing 747, the first wide-body airliner, is ...

2025 — Med Jets Flight 056 crashes near Roosevelt Mall in ...