January 31st (1945) was a Wednesday. It's the 30th day of the year (31st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 335 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 31st January, 1945
» United States Army US Army private Eddie Slovik is capital punishment executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the American Civil War Civil War.
» 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.
» World War II: the end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Rakhine State called Arakan
Famous Birthdays on January 31 in 1945
» Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, lawyer, judge, and academic
» Joseph Kosuth, American photographer and illustrator