January
31
Independence
Day
Nauru : January 31 1968
January
31
Street Children‘s
Day
2009 marked the 75th anniversary of the canonisation
of John Bosco, the "Father and Teacher
of Youth“. To mark the anniversary,
Jugend Eine Welt launched „Street Children‘s
Day“ the same year The "Street
Children's Day" is commemorated every
year on the January 31st and should highlight
the situation of these children and young
people and raise funds for projects run by
the Salesians of Don Bosco and the Salesian
Sisters of Don Bosco in favour of street children
worldwide. A "Street Children‘s
Day“ information package is sent to
parishes, interested teachers and youth groups
at the beginning of January. The package included
material for a service for children, general
background information on the subject of street
children and suggestions for campaigns. This
material is also available online (in German).
Since the first Street Children's Day in 2009
it gained more and more attention in Austrian
media, especially in 2011 when the auxiliary
bishop of Vienna Franz Scharl cleaned shoes
on the streets to commermorate the day.
Events
January
31
1747 – The first venereal
diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1915 – World War I: Germany uses poison gas
against Russia
1945 – World War II: About 3,000 inmates from
the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly
marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken
(now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
1946 – Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling
the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent
republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,
Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1950 – US President Harry S. Truman announces
a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800
deaths in the Netherlands.
1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The
first successful launch of an American satellite
into orbit.
1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen
radiation belt.
1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2
– Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned
Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
1968 – Nauru gains independence from Australia.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 – Astronauts
Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell,
aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission
to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese
amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
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