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January 31st, 2007	Event	Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
January 31st, 2003	Event	The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
January 31st, 2001	Event	In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
January 31st, 2000	Event	Alaska Airlines flight 261 MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.
January 31st, 1996	Event	An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
January 31st, 1995	Event	President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
January 31st, 1990	Event	The first McDonald s in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow, USSR.
January 31st, 1980	Event	Thirty-nine people burn to death in the occupation of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala.
January 31st, 1971	Event	Apollo program: Apollo 14 MissionAstronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
January 31st, 1971	Event	The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.

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