In a January 31but in 1980, 37 people died in the assault and fire of the Spanish embassy in Guatemala by the country’s security forces. The embassy had been occupied by Guatemalan farmers and students who denounced military repression.
1901.- The play “Three Sisters” by Anton Chekhov premieres in Moscow.
1917.- German scientists Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner discover protactinium, a radioactive element.
1918.- World War I: German air attack on Paris.
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1936.- The American writer William Faulkner writes the last page of the manuscript of his novel “Absalom, Absalom!”.
1944.- The Americans land in the Marshall Islands, in the Pacific.
1950.- The president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, orders the production of the hydrogen bomb in his country.
1958.- Launch into space of the first American satellite “Explorer-1”, the response of United States scientists to the launch of Sputnik 1 and 2 by the USSR.
1971.- The United States launches “Apollo XIV” into space, a manned space mission that was the third to land on the moon.
1976.- Theft of 118 paintings from Picasso’s last period in the Papal Palace in Avignon, which were recovered in October of that year by the police.
1977.- Inauguration in Paris of the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture, popularly known as the Pompidou Center.
1980.- Queen Juliana of Holland announces her abdication in favor of her daughter Beatrice, which became effective on the following April 30, when Beatrice was crowned.
1990.- The American fast food chain McDonalds opens its first establishment in Russia in the city center of Moscow.
1992.- Russian President Boris Yeltsin takes possession of the former USSR’s seat on the UN Security Council.
2020.- The United Kingdom definitively leaves the EU, after 47 years of staying in the European club.
2021.- The World Health Organization (WHO) mission that investigates the origin of the coronavirus in China visits the Wuhan market where the first infections were detected.
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2022.- The television networks Televisa and Univision complete their merger process and become a giant in the Spanish-language media sector with a potential audience of 100 million Spanish speakers.
1797.- Franz Peter Schubert, Austrian composer.
1820.- Concepción Arenal, Spanish writer and criminal lawyer.
1872.- Zane Gray, American writer of Western novels.
1881.- Ana Paulova, Russian dancer.
1921.- Alfredo Cocozza Lanza, “Mario Lanza”, American singer and actor.
1923.- Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist.
1929.- Jean Simmons, British actress.
1935.- Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer and 1994 Nobel Prize winner in Literature.
1938.- Beatrice of Orange-Nassau, queen of the Netherlands.
1946.- Juan José Millas, Spanish writer.
1956.- John Lydon, “Johnny Rotten”, vocalist of the British band Sex Pistols.
1970.- Amelia Driver (Minnie Driver), British actress.
1981.- Justin Timberlake, American actor and singer.
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1944.- Jean Giraudoux, French playwright.
1987.- Yves Allegret, French film director.
2007.- Francisco Rallo, Spanish sculptor.
2008.- Volodia Teitelboim Volosky, Chilean writer and politician.
2010.- Tomás Eloy Martínez, Argentine writer and journalist.
2012.- Juan Carlos Gené, Argentine actor and playwright.
2015.- Richard von Weizsäcker, first president of reunified Germany.
– Jose Manuel Lara, businessman, president of Grupo Planeta and Atresmedia.
2016.- Francisco Flores, Salvadoran politician.
2018.- Haím Guri, Israeli poet, novelist, journalist and filmmaker.
– Rasual Butler, American singer and former NBA player.
2020.- Mary Higgins Clark, American writer.
2024.- Mario Levi, Turkish writer.
