January 31 Holidays

✡️ Religious Observances

• Jewish: Shabbat Shirah שבת שירה holiday

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 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... ↗
• 2001 — In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the... ↗
• 2000 — Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of... ↗
• 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. ↗
• 1971 — Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the... ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1995 — Sten Olmre, Estonian basketball player
• 1994 — Kenneth Zohore, Danish footballer
• 1990 — Jacopo Fortunato, Italian footballer
• 1990 — Jacob Markström, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1990 — Kota Yabu, Japanese idol, singer-songwriter, model, actor