January 31 [select events in history: – Gunpowder Plot; World War I poison gas; "Battle' of May Island; Battle of Malaya;private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, etc.

Infogalactic.com ^ | 01/30/21

[daniel1212]

• 314 – Pope Sylvester I succeeds Pope Miltiades.

• 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.

• 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.

• 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.
• 1917 – World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
• 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.

• 1942 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
• 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.
• 1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
• 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.
• 1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1946 – Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).

• 1950 – United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.

• 1958 – The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
• 1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
• 1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

[daniel1212]

The Bible has the books of Chronicles, and I though it would help for provide a selection of notable events for today. Note that the veracity of the source link are only as good as its sources.

“Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” - Winston Churchill

[Edward Teach]

Ehhhh...there is no January 31...

[daniel1212]

Ehhhh...there is no January 31...

Really? Am I in a different universe?

[Jolla]

E Teach, you are on the metric system maybe

[ryderann]

You’re a month early. It’s February that’s short.

[Eastern Shore Virginian]

You do know this is one of the ways us humans uncover aliens infiltrating our planet.

You’re busted!

[dragnet2]

Yes there is/was, and on that date in 1945, it was a Wednesday.

[Edward Teach]

(all) Ok, ok...so I don’t remember my damn nursery rhymes. Or how to do the knuckle thing!