January 31

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January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 334 days remaining until the end of the year (335 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).

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Events

314 – Pope Sylvester I succeeds Pope Miltiades.

1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.

1578 – The Battle of Gembloux takes place.

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

1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.

1801 – John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.

1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina).

1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee.

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

1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846.

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.

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.

1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.

1891 – History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.

1897 – Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.

1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.

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.

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

1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.

1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.

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).

1946 – The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.

1949 – These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.

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

1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom

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.

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.

1968 – Nauru gains independence from Australia.

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.

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.

1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.

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.

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.

2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham, England, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and murder by beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.

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.

2010 – Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.

Births

877 – Taejo of Goryeo (d. 943)

1512 – Henry, King of Portugal (d. 1580)

1543 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1616)

1550 – Henry I, Duke of Guise (d. 1588)

1597 – John Francis Regis, French priest and saint (d. 1640)

1624 – Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher and academic (d. 1669)

1673 – Louis de Montfort, French priest and saint (d. 1716)

1686 – Hans Egede, Norwegian missionary and explorer (d. 1758)

1752 – Gouverneur Morris, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France (d. 1816)

1759 – François Devienne, French flute player and composer (d. 1803)

1797 – Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1828)

1799 – Rodolphe Töpffer, a Swiss teacher, author, and artist (d. 1846)

1820 – William B. Washburn, American politician, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)

1835 – Lunalilo of Hawaii (d. 1874)

1854 – David Emmanuel, Romanian mathematician and academic (d. 1941)

1865 – Henri Desgrange, French cyclist and journalist (d. 1940)

1865 – Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader, founded BAPS (d. 1951)

1868 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)

1872 – Zane Grey, American author (d. 1939)

1881 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)

1884 – Theodor Heuss, German journalist and politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1963)

1884 – Mammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani scholar and politician, 1st President of The Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (d. 1955)

1889 – Frank Foster, English cricketer (d. 1958)

1892 – Eddie Cantor, American singer-songwriter, actor, and dancer (d. 1964)

1894 – Isham Jones, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1956)

1896 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (d. 1966)

1902 – Nat Bailey, Canadian businessman, founded White Spot (d. 1978)

1902 – Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)

1902 – Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)

1905 – John O'Hara, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1970)

1909 – Miron Grindea, Romanian-English journalist (d. 1995)

1913 – Don Hutson, American football player and coach (d. 1997)

1914 – Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer and police officer (d. 1994)

1915 – Bobby Hackett, American trumpet player and cornet player (d. 1976)

1915 – Alan Lomax, American historian, author, and scholar (d. 2002)

1915 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author (d. 1968)

1915 – Garry Moore, American comedian and game show host (d. 1993)

1916 – Frank Parker, American tennis player (d. 1997)

1917 – Fred Bassetti, American architect and academic, founded Bassetti Architects (d. 2013)

1919 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1972)

1920 – Stewart Udall, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 2010)

1920 – Bert Williams, English footballer (d. 2004)

1921 – John Agar, American actor (d. 2002)

1921 – Carol Channing, American actress, singer, and dancer

1921 – E. Fay Jones, American architect, designed the Thorncrown Chapel (d. 2004)

1921 – Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (d. 1959)

1922 – Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996)

1923 – Norman Mailer, American journalist and author (d. 2007)

1925 – Benjamin Hooks, American minister, lawyer, and activist (d. 2010)

1926 – Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)

1927 – Norm Prescott, American animator, producer, and composer, co-founded Filmation Studios (d. 2005)

1928 – Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (d. 1958)

1928 – Irma Wyman, American computer scientist and engineer

1929 – Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)

1929 – Jean Simmons, English-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2010)

1930 – Joakim Bonnier, Swedish race car driver (d. 1972)

1930 – Al De Lory, American composer, conductor, and producer (d. 2012)

1931 – Ernie Banks, American baseball player and coach (d. 2015)

1931 – Christopher Chataway, English runner, journalist, and politician (d. 2014)

1932 – Miron Babiak, Polish captain (d. 2013)

1933 – Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1997)

1933 – Morton Mower, American cardiologist and inventor

1934 – Ernesto Brambilla, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver

1934 – Gene DeWeese, American author (d. 2012)

1934 – James Franciscus, American actor and producer (d. 1991)

1934 – Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2005)

1935 – Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1936 – Can Bartu, Turkish former basketball and football player

1937 – Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor

1937 – Andrée Boucher, Canadian educator and politician, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (d. 2007)

1937 – Philip Glass, American composer

1937 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008)

1938 – Beatrix of the Netherlands

1938 – Lynn Carlin, American actress

1938 – James G. Watt, American lawyer and politician, 43rd United States Secretary of the Interior

1940 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby player and coach (d. 1998)

1941 – Dick Gephardt, American lawyer and politician

1941 – Gerald McDermott, American author and illustrator (d. 2012)

1941 – Jessica Walter, American actress

1942 – Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress

1942 – Derek Jarman, English director, stage designer, and author (d. 1994)

1944 – Connie Booth, American-English actress and psychotherapist

1944 – John Inverarity, Australian cricketer and coach

1944 – Charlie Musselwhite, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player

1945 – Rynn Berry, American historian and author (d. 2014)

1945 – Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, English lawyer, judge, and academic

1945 – Joseph Kosuth, American sculptor and theorist

1947 – Nolan Ryan, American baseball player

1947 – Matt Minglewood, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1947 – Glynn Turman, American actor

1948 – Volkmar Groß, German footballer

1948 – Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician

1949 – Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and journalist

1949 – Norris Church Mailer, American model and educator (d. 2010)

1949 – Ken Wilber, American sociologist, philosopher, and author

1950 – Denise Fleming, American author and illustrator

1950 – Alexander Korzhakov, Russian general and bodyguard

1950 – Janice Rebibo, American-Israeli author and poet (d. 2015)

1951 – Harry Wayne Casey, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

1951 – Phil Manzanera, English musician and record producer

1954 – Faoud Bacchus, Guyanese cricketer

1954 – Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch guitarist and songwriter

1955 – Virginia Ruzici, Romanian tennis player and manager

1956 – John Lydon, English singer-songwriter

1956 – Stefan Majewski, Polish footballer and coach

1957 – Shirley Babashoff, American swimmer

1958 – Armin Reichel, German footballer and manager

1959 – Anthony LaPaglia, Australian footballer, actor, and producer

1959 – Kelly Lynch, American model and actress

1959 – Mickey Simmonds, English keyboard player and songwriter

1960 – Akbar Ganji, Iranian journalist and author

1960 – Grant Morrison, Scottish author and screenwriter

1960 – Željko Šturanović, Montenegrin politician, 31st Prime Minister of Montenegro (d. 2014)

1961 – Elizabeth Barker, Baroness Barker, English politician

1961 – Fatou Bensouda, Gambian lawyer and judge

1961 – Lloyd Cole, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1963 – Craig Coleman, Australian rugby league player and coach

1963 – Gwen Graham, American lawyer and politician

1964 – Martha MacCallum, American journalist

1965 – Giorgos Gasparis, Greek basketball player and coach

1965 – Ofra Harnoy, Israeli-Canadian cellist

1965 – Peter Sagal, American author and radio host

1966 – Umar Alisha, Indian journalist and philanthropist

1966 – Dexter Fletcher, English actor and director

1967 – Fat Mike, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer

1968 – Matt King, English actor, producer, and screenwriter

1968 – Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician, 2nd Swedish Minister for Infrastructure

1968 – Patrick Stevens, Belgian sprinter

1969 – Dov Charney, Canadian-American fashion designer and businessman, founded American Apparel

1970 – Minnie Driver, English singer-songwriter and actress

1970 – Danny Michel, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer

1971 – Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian and television host

1971 – Patricia Velásquez, Venezuelan model and actress

1973 – Portia de Rossi, Australian-American actress

1974 – Othella Harrington, American basketball player and coach

1974 – Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player

1975 – Fred Coleman, American football player and coach

1975 – Preity Zinta, Indian Actress, producer, television host

1976 – Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer and manager

1976 – Buddy Rice, American race car driver

1976 – Paul Scheer, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter

1977 – Jim Kleinsasser, American football player

1977 – Bobby Moynihan, American actor and comedian

1977 – Sergei Pareiko, Estonian footballer

1977 – David Terbrugge, South African cricketer

1977 – Kerry Washington, American actress

1978 – Fabián Caballero, Argentinian footballer and manager

1978 – Simon Prestigiacomo, Australian footballer

1978 – Ellen Stagg, American photographer

1979 – Daniel Tammet, English author and educator

1980 – James Adomian, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter

1980 – Shim Yi-young, South Korean actress

1981 – Julio Arca, Argentinian footballer

1981 – Mark Cameron, Australian cricketer

1981 – Justin Timberlake, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

1982 – Maret Ani, Estonian tennis player

1982 – Yuniesky Betancourt, Cuban baseball player

1982 – Andreas Görlitz, German footballer

1982 – Salvatore Masiello, Italian footballer

1982 – Allan McGregor, Scottish footballer

1982 – Jānis Sprukts, Latvian ice hockey player

1982 – Yukimi Nagano, Swedish singer-songwriter

1982 – Brad Thompson, American baseball player

1983 – James Sutton, English actor

1983 – Fabio Quagliarella, Italian footballer

1984 – Vernon Davis, American football player

1984 – Josh Johnson, Canadian-American baseball player

1984 – Jeremy Wariner, American runner

1984 – Alessandro Zanni, Italian rugby player

1985 – Adam Federici, Australian footballer

1985 – Mario Williams, American football player

1986 – Megan Ellison, American film producer, founded Annapurna Pictures

1986 – George Elokobi, Cameroonian footballer

1986 – Yves Ma-Kalambay, Belgian footballer

1986 – Pauline Parmentier, French tennis player

1987 – Marcus Mumford, American-English singer-songwriter

1988 – Justine Ozga, German tennis player

1988 – Brett Pitman, English footballer

1988 – Taijo Teniste, Estonian footballer

1990 – Jacopo Fortunato, Italian footballer

1990 – Kota Yabu, Japanese idol, singer, model, actor

1994 – Kenneth Zohore, Danish footballer

1995 – Sten Olmre, Estonian basketball player

Deaths

632 – Máedóc of Ferns, Irish bishop and saint (b. 550)

876 – Hemma of Altdorf, Frankish queen

1030 – William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)

1216 – Theodore II of Constantinople

1398 – Emperor Sukō of Japan (b. 1334)

1418 – Mircea I of Wallachia (b. 1355)

1435 – Xuande Emperor of China (b. 1398)

1561 – Bairam Khan, Mughalan general (b. 1501)

1561 – Menno Simons, Dutch minister and theologian (b. 1496)

1580 – Henry, King of Portugal (b. 1512)

1606 – Guy Fawkes, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (b. 1570)

1606 – Ambrose Rookwood, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (b. 1578)

1606 – Thomas Wintour, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (b. 1571)

1615 – Claudio Acquaviva, Italian priest, 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1543)

1632 – Jost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)

1665 – Johannes Clauberg, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1622)

1686 – Jean Mairet, French playwright (b. 1604)

1720 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1654)

1729 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)

1736 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect and set designer, designed the Basilica of Superga (b. 1678)

1790 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-born American lawyer and surveyor (b. 1718)

1794 – Mariot Arbuthnot, English admiral and politician, 12th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (b. 1711)

1811 – Manuel Alberti, Argentinian priest and journalist (b. 1763)

1815 – José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan soldier (b. 1775)

1828 – Alexander Ypsilantis, Greek general (b. 1792)

1836 – John Cheyne, English physician and author (b. 1777)

1844 – Henri Gatien Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)

1856 – 11th Dalai Lama (b. 1838)

1870 – Cilibi Moise, Moldavian-Romanian journalist and author (b. 1812)

1888 – John Bosco, Italian priest and educator, founded the Salesian Society (b. 1815)

1892 – Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (b. 1834)

1907 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian businessman, founded Eaton's (b. 1834)

1923 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)

1933 – John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)

1942 – Henry Larkin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)

1944 – Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (b. 1882)

1954 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)

1954 – Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)

1955 – John Mott, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)

1956 – A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright, created Winnie-the-Pooh (b. 1882)

1958 – Karl Selter, Estonian politician, 14th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1898)

1961 – Krishna Singh, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1887)

1966 – Arthur Percival, English general (b. 1887)

1967 – Eddie Tolan, American sprinter and educator (b. 1908)

1969 – Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)

1971 – Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian historian and linguist (b. 1891)

1973 – Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)

1974 – Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-American film producer, co-founded Goldwyn Pictures (b. 1882)

1976 – Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer (b. 1890)

1985 – Reginald Baker, English-Australian film producer (b. 1896)

1985 – Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese author (b. 1905)

1987 – Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907)

1989 – William Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy (b. 1896)

1990 – Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German zoologist and academic (b. 1901)

1990 – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1935)

1995 – George Abbott, American actor, director and producer (b. 1887)

1997 – John Joseph Scanlan, Irish-American bishop (b. 1930)

1999 – Giant Baba, Japanese wrestler and trainer, co-founded All Japan Pro Wrestling (b. 1938)

1999 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)

2000 – Gil Kane, Latvian-American author and illustrator (b. 1926)

2001 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-American author (b. 1923)

2002 – Gabby Gabreski, American colonel and pilot (b. 1919)

2004 – Eleanor Holm, American swimmer and actress (b. 1913)

2006 – Moira Shearer, Scottish actress and ballerina (b. 1926)

2007 – Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (b. 1944)

2007 – Adelaide Tambo, South African activist and politician (b. 1929)

2011 – Bartolomeu Anania, Romanian bishop and poet (b. 1921)

2011 – Mark Ryan, English guitarist and playwright (b. 1959)

2012 – Mani Ram Bagri, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1920)

2012 – Anthony Bevilacqua, American cardinal (b. 1923)

2012 – Tristram Potter Coffin, American author, scholar, and academic (b. 1922)

2012 – Dorothea Tanning, American painter and sculptor (b. 1910)

2013 – Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexican poet and scholar (b. 1923)

2013 – Hassan Habibi, Iranian lawyer and politician, 1st Vice President of Iran (b. 1937)

2014 – Francis M. Fesmire, American cardiologist and physician (b. 1959)

2014 – Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer, co-founded Anna Records (b. 1922)

2014 – Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somalian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1924)

2014 – Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1921)

2014 – Joseph Willcox Jenkins, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1928)

2014 – Christopher Jones, American actor (b. 1941)

2015 – Tomás Bulat, Argentinian economist, journalist, and academic (b. 1964)

2015 – Don Covay, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)

2015 – Vic Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)

2015 – Udo Lattek, German footballer, coach, and journalist (b. 1935)

2015 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress (b. 1922)

2015 – Richard von Weizsäcker, German captain and politician, 6th President of Germany (b. 1920)

2016 – Gil Carmichael, American businessman and politician (b. 1927)

2016 – Terry Wogan, Irish-English radio and television host (b. 1938)

2017 – Rob Stewart, Canadian filmmaker (b. 1979)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Blessed Ludovica

Geminianus

John Bosco

Marcella

Samuel Shoemaker (Episcopal Church (USA))

January 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Amartithi (Meherabad, India, followers of Meher Baba)

Independence Day (Nauru), celebrates independence from Australia in 1968.

Street Children's Day (Austria)

References

January 31 Wikipedia

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