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Day Of The Week: January 31
January 31, 2025 is the 31st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 334 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aquarius is your zodiac sign. Garnet is your modern birthstone. Emerald is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: January 31
- 1747 –The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
- 1846 –After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- 1929 –The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
- 1938 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- 1943 –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 World War II’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 Anzio campaign 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.
- 1953 –A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
- 1995 –President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
Who were born on January 31?
- 1868 –Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1928)
- 1896 –Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966)
- 1929 –Jean Simmons, English American actress (d. 2010)
- 1941 –Gerald McDermott, American filmmaker, children’s book author & illustrator
- 1941 –Richard A. Gephardt, American politician
- 1952 –Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (d. 1969)
- 1970 –Minnie Driver, British actress
- 1978 –Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington, English noble
- 1981 –Amrita Arora, Indian actress
- 1982 –Jānis Sprukts, Latvian hockey player
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