What happend on 31st January

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1971

Apollo program: Astronauts aboard Apollo 14 lift off for a mission to the moon.

1968

Nauru declares independence from Australia.

1968

Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon.

1961

Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.

1958

James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.

1958

The first successful American satellite, Explorer I, is launched into orbit.

1956

Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France.

1950

President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.

1946

Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).

1945

US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed, the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion.