{"id":2060,"date":"2024-01-31T04:47:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T23:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2024-01-25T15:12:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T09:42:59","slug":"history-of-31-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-31-january\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 31 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 31 January<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1945<\/strong> \u2013 World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the&nbsp;Stutthof concentration camp&nbsp;are forcibly marched into the&nbsp;Baltic Sea&nbsp;at Palmnicken (now&nbsp;Yantarny, Russia) and executed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1945<\/strong> \u2013 World War II: The end of fighting in the&nbsp;Battle of Hill 170&nbsp;during the&nbsp;Burma Campaign, in which the British&nbsp;3 Commando Brigade&nbsp;repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the&nbsp;Arakan&nbsp;Peninsula.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1946&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Cold War:&nbsp;Yugoslavia&#8217;s new&nbsp;constitution, modeling that of the&nbsp;Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina,&nbsp;Croatia,&nbsp;Macedonia,&nbsp;Montenegro,&nbsp;Serbia, and&nbsp;Slovenia).<\/li>\n<li><strong>1946<\/strong> \u2013 The&nbsp;Democratic Republic of Vietnam&nbsp;introduces the&nbsp;\u0111\u1ed3ng&nbsp;to replace the&nbsp;French Indochinese piastre&nbsp;at par.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1949&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;<i>These Are My Children<\/i>, the first television daytime&nbsp;soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1950&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 Cold War: U.S. President&nbsp;Harry S. Truman&nbsp;announces a program to develop the&nbsp;hydrogen bomb.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1951&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 United Nations Security Council Resolution 90 relating to the Korean War is adopted.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1953&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 A&nbsp;North Sea flood&nbsp;causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li><strong>1957&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 Eight people (5 total crew from 2 aircraft and 3 on the ground) in&nbsp;Pacoima, California&nbsp;are killed following the&nbsp;mid-air collision&nbsp;between a&nbsp;Douglas DC-7&nbsp;airliner and a&nbsp;Northrop F-89 Scorpion&nbsp;fighter jet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1958&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 Cold War:&nbsp;Space Race: The&nbsp;first successful American satellite&nbsp;detects the&nbsp;Van Allen radiation belt.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1961&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Project Mercury:&nbsp;Mercury-Redstone 2:&nbsp;Ham the Chimp&nbsp;travels into&nbsp;outer space.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1966&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 The&nbsp;Soviet Union&nbsp;launches the unmanned&nbsp;Luna 9&nbsp;spacecraft as part of the&nbsp;Luna program.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1968 <\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Vietnam War:&nbsp;Viet Cong&nbsp;guerrillas attack the United States embassy in&nbsp;Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the&nbsp;Tet Offensive.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1968<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Nauru&nbsp;gains independence from Australia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1971&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Apollo program:&nbsp;Apollo 14: Astronauts&nbsp;Alan Shepard,&nbsp;Stuart Roosa, and&nbsp;Edgar Mitchell, aboard a&nbsp;Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the&nbsp;Fra Mauro Highlands&nbsp;on the&nbsp;Moon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1971<\/strong> \u2013 The&nbsp;Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the&nbsp;Vietnam Veterans Against the War&nbsp;to publicize&nbsp;war crimes&nbsp;and atrocities by Americans and allies in&nbsp;Vietnam, begins in&nbsp;Detroit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the&nbsp;Central Bank of Sri Lanka&nbsp;in&nbsp;Colombo, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Alaska Airlines Flight 261&nbsp;crash: An&nbsp;MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of&nbsp;Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2001&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts&nbsp;Libyan&nbsp;Abdelbaset al-Megrahi&nbsp;and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of&nbsp;Pan Am Flight 103&nbsp;over&nbsp;Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 In&nbsp;Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an&nbsp;oil spillage ignition&nbsp;in&nbsp;Molo, days after&nbsp;a massive fire&nbsp;at a&nbsp;Nakumatt&nbsp;supermarket in&nbsp;Nairobi&nbsp;killed at least 25 people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 The&nbsp;Toyota Corolla&nbsp;is known as the best-selling car of all time. Selling over 37.5 million units.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2018&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Blue moon&nbsp;and a&nbsp;total lunar eclipse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Celebrating Birthday\u2019s Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013 Julio Arca, the Argentinian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Mark Cameron, Australian cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Justin Timberlake, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013 Maret Ani, an Estonian tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Yuniesky Betancourt, Cuban baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Andreas G\u00f6rlitz, German footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Salvatore Masiello, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Allan McGregor, Scottish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;J\u0101nis Sprukts, Latvian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Yukimi Nagano, Swedish singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Brad Thompson, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;James Sutton, English actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Fabio Quagliarella, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Vernon Davis, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Josh Johnson, Canadian-American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Jeremy Wariner, American runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Alessandro Zanni, Italian rugby player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Adam Federici, Australian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Mario Williams, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Megan Ellison, American film producer, founded&nbsp;Annapurna Pictures<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;George Elokobi, Cameroonian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Yves Ma-Kalambay, Belgian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013 Pauline Parmentier, a French tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Marcus Mumford, American-English singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013 Justine Ozga, a German tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Brett Pitman, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Taijo Teniste, Estonian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Kyle Kulinski, American talk show host<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Jacopo Fortunato, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Jacob Markstr\u00f6m, Swedish ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Kota Yabu, Japanese idol, singer-songwriter, model, actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Kenneth Zohore, Danish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Sten Olmre, Estonian basketball player<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 31 January 1945 \u2013 World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the&nbsp;Stutthof concentration camp&nbsp;are forcibly marched into the&nbsp;Baltic Sea&nbsp;at Palmnicken (now&nbsp;Yantarny, Russia) and executed. 1945 \u2013 World War II: The end of fighting in the&nbsp;Battle of Hill 170&nbsp;during the&nbsp;Burma Campaign, in which the British&nbsp;3 Commando Brigade&nbsp;repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and 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