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Historical Events on January 31 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 214 of 214

  • 2019 Colonization of the America's in the late 1500s killed so many people it cooled the planet and led to a "Little Ice Age", according to a scientific report published in "Quaternary Science Reviews"
  • 2019 Leaked Indian government reports says unemployment rate at 6.1% highest since 1972-73, up from 2.2% in 2011-12
  • 2019 New government in Lebanon finally formed by Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri nine months after elections
  • 2019 Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah crowned King of Malaysia to serve a five-year term
  • 2019 US border agency seizes its biggest ever fentanyl bust, nearly 254 pounds hidden in Tractor-trailer in Nogales, Arizona
  • 2020 United Kingdom formally withdraws from the European Union (Brexit)

Navalny Arrested

2021 Widespread protests in Russia against detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the government with 5,000 people arrested

  • 2022 British government report finds "a failure of leadership" led to parties taking place in Downing Street when UK under strict lockdown, amid a police investigation [1]
  • 2022 Online word puzzle Wordle bought for “low seven figure sum” by The New York Times

Francis Visits Democratic Republic of Congo

2023 Pope Francis lands in Kinshasa on a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, first papal visit to the country since 1985 [1]

Big Ten All-Time Scoring Record

2024 Caitlin Clark posts 35 points and 10 assists for Iowa against Northwestern, breaking the Big Ten all-time scoring record

  • 2024 Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar sworn in as 17th Yang di-Pertuan Agong, (King of Malaysia) for five years under country's system of rotational monarchy, at a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur [1]

Social Media Companies Reprimanded

2024 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and social media companies Discord, TikTok, X and Snap reprimanded before a US congressional hearing for not doing enough to protect children online [1]

Podesta Succeeds Kerry as Climate Envoy

2024 US clean energy advisor John Podesta succeeds John Kerry as the Biden administration's global representative on climate [1]