January 31 in History

• January 31 is the 31st day of the year. There are 335 days remaining until the end of the year.
• 1865 – The US Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution abolishing slavery.
• 1876 – The US government ordered all Native Americans to move onto reservations.
• 1930 – 3M began marketing Scotch Tape.
• 1956 – A A. Milne, English author and “father” of Pooh, Tigger, and Eeyore, died. He was born in 1882.
• 1990 – The first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union opened in Moscow.
• 2011 – Eunice Sanborn, American and world's oldest living person at time of her death (114), died. She was born in 1896.