Today is Friday, Jan. 31, the 31st day of 2014. There are 334 days left in the year. This is the Chinese New Year of the Horse. On Jan. 31, 1944, during World War II, U.S. forces began a successful invasion of Kwajalein Atoll and other parts of the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. 1606 Guy Fawkes, convicted of treason for his part in the Gunpowder Plot against the English Parliament and King James I, was executed. 1863 during the Civil War, the First South Carolina Volunteers, an all-black Union regiment composed of former slaves, was mustered into federal service at Beaufort, S.C. 1865 Gen. Robert E. Lee was named general-in-chief of all the Confederate armies. 1917 during World War I, Germany served notice it was beginning a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. 1929 revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his family were expelled from the Soviet Union. 1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Gold Reserve Act. 1958 the United States entered the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satellite into orbit, Explorer I. 1961 NASA launched Ham the Chimp aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral; Ham was recovered safely from the Atlantic Ocean following his 16½-minute suborbital flight. 1971 astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon. 1974 Today is Friday, Jan. 31, the 31st day of 2014. There are 334 days left in the year. This is the Chinese New Year of the Horse. On Jan. 31, 1944, during World War II, U.S. forces began a successful invasion of Kwajalein Atoll and other parts of the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. 1606 Guy Fawkes, convicted of treason for his part in the Gunpowder Plot against the English Parliament and King James I, was executed. 1863 during the Civil War, the First South Carolina Volunteers, an all-black Union regiment composed of former slaves, was mustered into federal service at Beaufort, S.C. 1865 Gen. Robert E. Lee was named general-in-chief of all the Confederate armies. 1917 during World War I, Germany served notice it was beginning a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. 1929 revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his family were expelled from the Soviet Union. 1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Gold Reserve Act. 1958 the United States entered the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satellite into orbit, Explorer I. 1961 NASA launched Ham the Chimp aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral; Ham was recovered safely from the Atlantic Ocean following his 16½-minute suborbital flight. 1971 astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon. 1974 legendary movie producer Samuel Goldwyn, 94, died in Los Angeles.
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