January 31 in history
Events on January 31
Notable events that happened on January 31 in past years.
- 2025
Med Jets Flight 056 crashes near Roosevelt Mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing 8 people and injuring 23.
Wikipedia article: Med Jets Flight 056 - 2019
Abdullah of Pahang is sworn in as the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
Wikipedia article: Abdullah of Pahang - 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.
Wikipedia article: Libya - 1988
Doug Williams becomes the first African American quarterback to play in a Super Bowl and leads the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXII.
Wikipedia article: Doug Williams (quarterback) - 1968
Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
Wikipedia article: Vietnam War - 1957
Eight people (five total crew from two aircraft and three 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.
Wikipedia article: Pacoima, Los Angeles - 1946
Cold War: Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
Wikipedia article: Cold War - 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.
Wikipedia article: Battle of Hill 170 - 1942
World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to Singapore.
Wikipedia article: World War II - 1918
Finnish Civil War: The Suinula massacre, which changes the nature of the war in a more hostile direction, takes place in Kangasala.
Wikipedia article: Finnish Civil War - 1900
Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
Wikipedia article: Mat Salleh Rebellion - 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.
Wikipedia article: Alvan Graham Clark - 1747
The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
Wikipedia article: Sexually transmitted infection - 1578
Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War: The Battle of Gembloux is a victory for Spanish forces led by Don John of Austria over a rebel army of Dutch, Flemish, English, Scottish, German, French and Walloons.
- 314
Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
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