Daily Calendar for January 31st, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1790s

• Born 1797: Franz Peter Schubert (Austrian composer)

1870s

• Born 1872: Zane Grey (novelist)

1890s

• Born 1892: Eddie Cantor (comedian)

1900s

• 1901: Anton Chekov's play, Three Sisters, premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre

• 1905: A Napier was the first car to go over 100 mph

• Born 1905: John Henry O'Hara (author)

• Died 1907: Timothy Eaton (retailer)

1910s

• Born 1914: Jersey Joe Walcott (boxer)

• Born 1915: Garry Moore (TV personality)

• 1917: The German government informed the U.S. that unrestricted submarine warfare would begin on February 1, 1917

• Born 1919: Jackie Robinson (first African American baseball player in major leagues)

1920s

• Born 1921: Mario Lanza (singer & actor)

• Born 1921: Carol Channing (actress)

• Born 1923: Norman Mailer (author)

• Born 1929: Jean Simmons (actress)

1930s

• Born 1931: Ernie Banks (baseball player)

• 1936: The Green Hornet made its radio debut

• Born 1937: Phillip Glass (musician)

1940s

• 1946: Yugoslavia adopted its constitution and officially became a people's republic

• Born 1947: Nolan Ryan (baseball player)

1950s

• 1951: The U.S. released 33 former Nazis incarcerated for war crimes, including Alfred Krupp

• Died 1956: A. A. Milne (author)

• 1958: Explorer I, first U.S. satellite, launched

• Born 1959: Anthony LaPaglia (actor)

1960s

• 1961: Ham, a male chimpanzee, was recovered alive in the Caribbean after being carried to a height of 155 miles in a U.S. space capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida

• 1967: National Traffic Safety Agency issued the first set of U.S. federal safety standards for vehicle safety

• 1968: North Vietnam launched the Tet Offensive, attacking South Vietnamese towns

1970s

• 1971: Limited telephone service re-established between East and West Berlin for the first time in 19 years

• 1971: Apollo 14 manned spacecraft launched

• Born 1973: Portia de Rossi (actress)

• 1974: Paul and Linda McCartney appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone. This made Linda McCartney the first person to have both taken a photo, and to have been photographed, for the front cover of the magazine.

• Died 1974: Sam Goldwyn (movie mogul)

1980s

• Born 1981: Justin Timberlake (singer)

1990s

• 1990: The first McDonald's opened in Moscow, Russia

• Born 1992: Tyler Seguin (ice hockey player)

2000s

• Died 2002: Francis Gabreski (retired colonel who recorded 37.5 kills and was known as "America's Greatest Living Ace")

• Died 2005: Horace Hagedorn (founder of Miracle-Gro plant food)

• 2006: Samuel Alito was sworn in as the 110th U.S. Supreme Court justice

2010s

• Died 2011: Eunice Sanborn (American supercentenarian)

• 2018: Total Eclipse of the Moon.