Today’s day in history
Today is Wednesday, January 31, the 31st day of the year 2024. There are 335 days left in the year.
Today’s important moment in history:
On March 31, 1958, the United States entered the space age with its first successful launch of a satellite, named Explorer 1, from Cape Canaveral.
on this date:
In 1797, the composer Franz Schubert was born in Vienna.
In 1863, during the Civil War, the First South Carolina Volunteers, an all-black Union regiment composed of many escaped slaves, was mustered into Federal service at Beaufort, South Carolina.
In 1865, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery and sent it to the states for ratification. (The amendment was adopted in December 1865.)
In 1919, Baseball Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia.
In 1945 Pvt. Eddie Slovik, 24, became the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion after being shot by an American firing squad in France.
In 1961, NASA launched Ham the Chimp on a Mercury-Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral; Ham was recovered safely from the Atlantic Ocean after his 16 1/2-minute suborbital flight.
In 1971, astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, and Stuart Roosa flew Apollo 14 on a mission to the Moon.
In 2000, an Alaska Airlines MD-83 jet crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Port Hueneme (Wi-NEE-mee), California, killing all 88 people on board.
In 2001, a Scottish court based in the Netherlands convicted one Libyan and acquitted another in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in Lockerbie, Scotland. Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was sentenced to life imprisonment, but was released after eight years on compassionate grounds by the Scottish Government. He died in 2012.
In 2012, Facebook announced plans to go public with a stock offering.
In 2013, 25-year-old Caleb Moore, an innovative freestyle snowmobile rider who was injured in a crash at the Winter X Games in Colorado, died at a hospital in Grand Junction.
In 2015, Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of late singer Whitney Houston, was found unconscious in a bathtub in her Georgia townhome and was airlifted to an Atlanta-area hospital. (He died six months later.)
In 2016, Novak Djokovic continued his fine form into six Australian Open finals with a 6–1, 7–5, 7–6(3) victory over Andy Murray.
In 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch, a fast-rising conservative judge, to the US Supreme Court. (Gorsuch would be confirmed by a 54–45 vote in April 2017.)
In 2018, much of the world was treated to a rare triple lunar treat – a total lunar eclipse that combined with an especially close full moon that was also the second full moon of the month.
In 2020, the United States declared a public health emergency over the new coronavirus, and President Donald Trump signed an order temporarily barring the entry of foreign nationals, other than the immediate family of U.S. citizens, who have visited the United States in the past 14 days. Had traveled to China within.
In 2023, a New Mexico district attorney filed involuntary manslaughter charges against actor Alec Baldwin and a weapons expert in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western film “Rust.” (Prosecutors later dropped the charges, but on January 19, 2024, Baldwin was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.)
Today’s Birthday: Composer Philip Glass is 87. Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, former queen regent, is 86. Former U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., is 83. Blues singer-musician Charlie Musselwhite is 80. Actor Glynn Turman is 77 years old. Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan is 77 years old. Actor Jonathan Banks is 77 years old. Singer-composer Harry Wayne KC (KC and the Sunshine Band) is 72. Rock singer John Lydon is 67 years old. Actor Kelly Lynch is 65 years old. Actor Anthony LaPaglia is 65 years old. Singer-composer Lloyd Cole is 63 years old. Rock musician Al Jaworski (Jesus Jones) is 58 years old. Actor Minnie Driver is 54 years old. Actor Portia de Rossi is 51 years old. Actor-comedian Bobby Moynihan is 47 years old. Actor Kerry Washington is 47 years old. Bluegrass singer-musician Becky Buller is 45 years old. Singer Justin Timberlake is 43 years old. Actor Tyler Ritter is 39 years old. Country singer Tyler Hubbard (Florida Georgia Line) is 37. Folk-rock singer-composer Marcus Mumford (Mumford & Sons) is 37. Actor Joel Courtney is 28 years old.
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