What events happened on January 31?

What events happened on January 31?

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌏 International Jewelers’ Day.

🌏 International Zebra Day.

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇺🇸 USA – National Hot Chocolate Day.
🇦🇹 Austria – Street Children’s Day.
🇳🇷 Nauru – Independence Day.
🇮🇳 India – Meher Baba Memorial Day.

👉 EVENTS:

– 1714 – The Kunstkamera – “State Cabinet” museum was founded in St. Petersburg, in the Summer Palace.
– 1729 – The first printed book in the Arabic alphabet was published in Istanbul.
– 1864 – The first “public zoological garden” in Russia, the Moscow Zoo, was opened for visitors.
– 1865 – Dmitri Mendeleev defended his dissertation on the topic “Mixture of alcohol with water”.
– 1893 – The Coca-Cola trademark was registered.
– 1918 – Hundreds of people died in the collision of five British submarines.
– 1921 – A peasant uprising broke out in Siberia (Ishimskoye), the cause of which was dissatisfaction with the economic policy of the Soviet government.
– 1921 – The day the Moscow AITU building was founded.
– 1924 – The final version of the first Constitution of the USSR was approved by the 2nd Congress of Soviets of the USSR.
– 1929 – Leon Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union.
– 1943 – Field Marshal Paulus surrendered near Stalingrad.
– 1953 – More than 2,000 people died in a storm on the North Sea coast.
– 1958 – The Explorer-1 satellite detected the Earth’s radiation layer.
– 1965 – The Republican Children’s Library was established.
– 1968 – The independent Republic of Nauru was established.
– 1971 – The American spacecraft Apollo 14 was launched to the Moon.
– 1977 – The Pompidou Center began its work in Paris.
– 1989 – The American embassy in Kabul (Afghanistan) was closed.
– 1990 – The first McDonald’s in the USSR began its work.
– 2020 – The United Kingdom left the European Union.
– 2021 – Second protests in support of Alexei Navalny.