January 31st

The January 31st is the 31e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 334 days before the end of the year.

January 30th * January 31st *

Events

1 with 1900

  • 1246 : Marriage between Beatrice of Provence, countess of Provence and Charles Ier of Anjou, the brother of Louis IX. By this marriage with the girl of Raymond-Berenger IV of Provence, Charles becomes Count de Provence (until in 1285), and makes a stay with Nice.

  • 1450 : John Kemp, cardinal and of York, is named Chancelier.
  • 1472 : Giuliano della Rovere, future pope Jules II, is named bishop of Lausanne (Suisse)
  • 1488: Bruges: Maximilien goes with a weak escort to the General states of Flandres.
  • 1504 : The France yields Naples to the Aragon.
  • 1531 : Charles Quint designates his sister, Marie of Hungary, as regent of the Netherlands.
  • 1606 : Guy Fawkes, a catholic who had wanted to make jump the English Parliament, is carried out.
  • 1793 : France: Nice is annexed. Danton claims the annexation of the Belgium.
  • 1795 : France (12 pluviôse): Prohibition to trade with the foreigner is raised.
  • 1856 : Gail Borden Jr puts a point at the process which makes it possible to obtain dried milk .
  • 1865 : The Congress of the United States vote the 13ème amendment of the Constitution: " There will exist in the the United States, and any locality subjected to their jurisdiction, neither slavery, nor involuntary constraint, if it is not as sorrow of a crime whose individual would have been duly declared coupable". Slavery is thus definitively abolished with the the United States at least officially because the practices of certain companies remain doubtful.
  • 1874 : Switzerland: A democratic Constitution organizes a Federal state with nineteen cantons and six demicantons.
  • 1878 : Ottoman Empire: The Russian, Rumanian and Bulgarian troops advance towards the the Bosphorus and seize Andrinople, where the Othoman accept a Armistice.
  • 1881 : Saint-Petersbourg: Funerals of Dostoïevski, dead the 28, are followed by thirty thousand people.
  • 1884 : Central Asia: The Russians continue their push and seize the town of Merv to the Turkménistan.
  • 1891 : Civil war with the Chile.

20th century

  • 1901 :

  • 1902 : England: First match of a French team of Football on the other side of the channel.
  • 1917 : The Germany announces a total underwater war.
  • 1918 :
    • IIIe congress of the Soviets proclaim the Soviet Federative Socialist République of Russia.
    • in Soviet Union, it is the last day according to the Calendrier Julien; the following day will be the February 14th.
  • 1925 : Opening of the first working Olympiads of winter.
  • 1927 : Germany: End of interallied military control.
  • 1928 : The Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing (3M) markets the Scotch Types transparent.
  • 1929 :
    • Leon Trotski is expelled of Soviet Union; he will be assassinated with the Mexico, in 1940, by an agent of Stalin.
    • Berlin: Erich Maria Remarque (1898 - 1970) publishes her pacifist novel In the West, nothing again .
  • 1930 : in India, Gandhi lance a call to disobedience against the British capacity.
  • 1941 : Exit with the the United States of " matrimonial Joys " of Alfred Hitchcock with Carole Lombard.
  • 1943 : Capitulation of the troops Nazis of the southern sector of Stalingrad. The northern sector will capitulate the February 2nd.
  • 1944 : The Pacific: the American troops seize the Marshall Islands.
  • 1946 : The new constitution of the federator popular republic of Yugoslavia is promulgated, modelling the Soviet Union by establishing six constituent republics.
  • 1949 : The the United States recognize the State of Israel.
  • 1950 : Harry Truman autοrise the manufacture of lа bends with hydrogen. Trοis years later, the US president will annoncеra that its pаys is from now on in possession of the superbombe.
  • 1957 : Completion of the construction of the Pipeline trans-Iranian, between Abadan and Teheran.
  • 1961 : Ham the chimpanzee travels in space (American operation).
  • 1962 : The Foreign Ministers of the Organization of the American States (OAS) vote the exclusion of Cuba. (OAS: Site to consult)
  • 1966: First Soviet probe on the moon, Luna 9.
  • 1968 : Nauru, obtains its independence. It is the smallest republic of the world. Its surface is of 2129 ha for 8000 inhabitants.
  • 1971 : Dépаrt dе the mission Apollo 14 towards the the Moon, with the American astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell еt Stuart Roosa.
  • 1972 : Karl Schranz, skier, is excluded from the Olympic Games for " fact of professionalisme".
  • 1974 : The crash landing of a plane of the Pan Am in the archipelago of the Samoa kills 95 of the 101 passengers and team members.
  • 1976 :
    • 119 fabrics of Picasso exposed to the Palais of the Popes of Avignon are catch.
  • 1976 : The pope Jean-Paul II warns against the feminist movements which, says it, risk dépersonnaliser the woman.
  • 1977 : Inauguration of the Center Georges-Pompidou with Paris (district Beaubourg).
  • 1979 : After having met the US president Jimmy Carter, Deng Xiaoping, first vice-president of the Chinese council, declares that the Soviet Union is " the principal hearth of guerre" in the world.
  • 1980 : with Ciudad of Guatemala, the attack of the police force makes thirty-five dead with the embassy Spain where peasants without ground kept hostages.
  • 1981 : Solidarność and the Polish government concludes an agreement on the work hours.
  • 1988 : Ecological drama, the tanker " Amazzone " loses 3.000 tons of crude to broad of Ushant, France. Visit the site of the CEDAR more on the oil slicks.
  • 1992 :
  • 1995 :
    • the Latvia enters to the Council of Europe.
    • Eric Cantona, condemned to two weeks of imprisonment for the aggression with kicks of a spectator during the match which opposed Crystal De luxe hotel and Manchester United (25/01), sees his sorrow changed by 120 work hours of general interest.
  • 1996 :
    • an attack with the trapped truck makes ninety dead with Colombo, capital of the Sri Lanka, on the west coast of the island.
    • In the Hunan, in China, the collapse of a building makes a hundred and twenty-two dead.
  • 1997 : The admiral Didier Ratsiraka, 62 years, is proclaimed president of the Republic of Madagascar.
  • 1999 :
    • Of the American researchers of the university of the Alabama reveals the origins of the virus of the AIDS: this last comes many chimpanzees as it was supposed.
    • Forty-sixth world day against the Leprosy. In spite of the existence of a remedy (three associated antibiotics), this affection touches two more million people.
  • 2000 :
    • a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 of Alaska Airlines (flight 261) crashe at sea in the Pacific Ocean to 35 km in the north of Los Angeles (California) with 88 people on board, not of survivors.
    • the courts not being reliable as for the culpability of the defendants, the governor George Ryan, of the Illinois, suspends the capital executions.
    • a group of women gathers in front of the American embassy of the Filipino . They leave then the underclothing of their bag and burn them in sign of protest against the American military operations which brings the disorder in the country and generates the prostitution.
    • Three weeks after the owners, the truck drivers organize during two days of the stoppings to protest against the modes of enforcement of the thirty-five hours.
    • the doctor Harold Shipman is condemned to the life imprisonment in England to have completed 15 of its rich person and old customers in order to touch their heritage. 200 files are open in this business.
    • France Telecom has in France the monopoly for the local loop: the direct connection of an subscriber to a phone network. The ART had decided to allot licenses of local loop by waves radios. France Telecom is readjusted to have trailed before sending its file. Its candidature is rejected for 2 mn!

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • in the Netherlands with Camp Zeist: Abdel Basset hound Ali Al-Megrahi , is condemned to the life imprisonment by a Scottish court joined together with the Netherlands. He is recognized guilty in the attack made against a Boeing 747 of the Pan Am which was crushed on the town of Lockerbie in December 1988, in Scotland, killing 269 people (259 travellers and 11 people on the ground). At the time of this same lawsuit, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah , is discharged.
    • the boarding of the trawler lorientais Saint-Pierre by the tanker Laura in the west of the islands Hébrides, Scotland, made property damages and two wounded. Visit the site of the CEDAR more on the oil slicks.
  • 2002 :
    • the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declares in an interview with the daily newspaper Maariv that Israel should have removed Yasser Arafat twenty years ago, whereas it was besieged with Beirut by the troops of the Hebrew State, declaration at once considered as a threat of murder by the Palestinian leaders.
    • Nearly fifty delegated and militant anti-universalization take part during six days with the “Social forum” in Porto Alegre (Brésil), in counterpoint with the “World economic forum” of Davos, transferred this year to New York.
    • Execution, enters at the end of January and at the beginning of February, of Daniel Pearl, thirty-eight years, journalist of the Wall Street Journal removed by Moslem extremists with the Pakistan ( with reading, Which killed Daniel Pearl? , by Bernard-Henri Levy ).
    • Shan Ying , Olympic medal in swimming and Zhou Jiawei undergoes a control anti-doping. They will be suspended after a positive test with the Clenbuterol, a Stéroïde.
    • a beauty contest for camels is organized with the United Arab Emirates, with prices of a total of 27.000 dollars!
    • the Spanish senator of El Hierro Venancio Acosta request with the Spanish Minister for the Economy Rodrigo Rato of the explanations on the absence of the small islands of El Hierro and Will gum It (in the Spanish archipelago of the the Canaries) on the charts represented on the tickets in euro.
  • 2003 :
    • the Court of Assizes of the Yvelines condemns the nurse Christine Malevre to ten years of imprisonment to have euthanasia six of its patients at the hospital of Mantes-the-Pretty in 1997 and 1998. In call, in October, its sorrow will be weighed down two years additional.
    • “to speak, it is not to return. I left the political life. I do not return there”: thus the former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin opens a long platform, entitled “useful”, to be published in Le Monde.
    • the US president George W. Bush and British the Prime Minister Tony Blair state that the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein did not carry out the disarmament of the Iraq and that it must be held for person in charge by the international community.
    • Sven Hannawald increases the world records of ski jump to 214 m on the tramplin of Kulm, in Austria.
  • 2004 : Berhane Adere carries the world records of the 5.000 indoor to 14 mn, 39 S, 28. They is 8 seconds of better than the old record held by Gabriela Szabo.
  • 2005 :
    • Continued for sexual assault on a 13 year old boy, Michael Jackson appears before the court of Santa Maria, in California, for the opening of a hypermediatized lawsuit.
    • At the time of a visit in the suburbs of Manchester, Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, is victim of a " attack with the kiss " when a woman leaves crowd and embraces it impetuously. She will comment on her gesture by saying that it has " lips of baby, very soft ".

Births

Death

Celebrations

  • National Festival: Nauru

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Cyr and Jean of Alexandria, anargyres and martyrs. Saint Cyr gave its name to the town of Aboukir.
  • Gaud d' Évreux († 491), bishop.
  • Géminien of Modena († 348), bishop.
  • Marcelle of Rome († 410), widow.
  • Holy Nikita, Kird and Marcelle

Catholic saints of the day

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Nicétas de Novgorod († 1108), bishop.
  • Élie Ardounis († 1686), néo-martyr.

See too

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