📜 This Day in History
January 31
314Sylvester I, during whose pontificate many churches in Rome were constructed by Constantine the Great, began his reign as pope.- 1747The London Lock Hospital, the first voluntary hospital specialising in the treatment of venereal diseases, opened.
- 1900Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of a series of major disturbances in North Borneo, was shot dead in Tambunan, but his followers did not give up for five more years.
- 1957A DC-7B operated by Douglas Aircraft collided in mid-air with a U.S. Air Force F-89 and crashed into a schoolyard in Pacoima, California.
- 1997Final Fantasy VII, the first video game in the Final Fantasy franchise to use 3-D computer graphics, was released.
- 2013A gas leak underneath the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City caused an explosion that killed at least 37 people and injured another 121.
