January 31<\/p>\n
1606 \u2013\u00a0 4 conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament, Thomas Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood, Robert Keyes, and Guy Fawkes are executed for treason by being hanged, drawn and quartered.<\/p>\n
1814 \u2013 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the R\u00edo de la Plata in present day Argentina.<\/p>\n
1846 \u2013 After a series of reciprocal attacks termed the the ‘Milwaukee Bridge War’, due to differences on how a damaged bridge over the Milwaukee River would be repaired, the towns of Juneautown and Kilbourntown on opposite sides of the river, unify to create the City of Milwaukee.<\/p>\n
1862 \u2013 Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B<\/em>, a companion of Sirius A<\/em>, while testing an 18.5 inch refractor telescope for the Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois<\/p>\n 1865 \u2013 The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese occupied Marshall Islands. 1945 \u2013 US Army Private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 President Truman authorizes the development of thermonuclear weapons.<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 Over Pacoima, California,\u00a0 8 people; the pilot of the fighter, the 4 crew members on the airliner and 3 students on a school playground where parts of the airliner crashed into, are killed following the mid air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 During the Tet Offensive, Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, killing 5 embassy personnel before being killed.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 Apollo 14 Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon, to perform the exploration of the aborted Apollo 13 mission the previous year.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 Coalition ground forces begin the final assault to retake Khafji, Saudi Arabia from occupying Iraqi Army troops.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2013 Alaska Airlines Flight 261, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 The United Kingdom officially exits membership within the European Union<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 31 1606 \u2013\u00a0 4 conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament, Thomas Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood, Robert Keyes, and Guy Fawkes are executed for treason by being hanged, drawn and quartered. 1814 \u2013 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the R\u00edo de la Plata in present day … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64385"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89705,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64385\/revisions\/89705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDuring the Anzio campaign, the 1st Ranger Battalion is destroyed behind enemy lines, with only 6 out of 767 soldiers escaping being killed, or captured, in battle at Cisterna, Italy.<\/p>\n