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On this day: January 31

POSTED: 10:08 PM PST Jan 30, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 30, 2013

The first Social Security check is issued, America launches its first satellite into orbit, McDonald's comes to Moscow, and "Avatar" hits the $2 billion mark, all on this day.

OTD January 31 - AA Milne — 18 / 38

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1956: English author A. A. Milne, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems, dies at the age of 74 in Hartfield, East Sussex, England.

OTD January 31 - Guy Fawkes

OTD January 31 - Franz Schubert

OTD January 31 - John Marshall

OTD January 31 - 13th Amendment

OTD January 31 - Zane Grey

OTD January 31 - Coca-Cola

OTD January 31 - Jersey Joe Walcott

OTD January 31 - Jackie Robinson

OTD January 31 - Carol Channing

OTD January 31 - Norman Mailer

OTD January 31 - Ernie Banks

OTD January 31 - Philip Glass

OTD January 31 - Suzanne Pleshette

OTD January 31 - Ida May Fuller

OTD January 31 - Nolan Ryan

OTD January 31 - hydrogen bomb

OTD January 31 - Harry Wayne Casey

OTD January 31 - AA Milne

OTD January 31 - Johnny Rotten

OTD January 31 - Explorer 1

OTD January 31 - Kelly Lynch

OTD January 31 - Ham the Chimp

OTD January 31 - Minnie Driver

OTD January 31 - Apollo 14

OTD January 31 - Portia de Rossi

OTD January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn

OTD January 31 - Kerry Washington

OTD January 31 - Justin Timberlake

OTD January 31 - Marcus Mumford

OTD January 31 - Moscow McDonald's

OTD January 31 - Howard Cosell

OTD January 31 - Sri Lanka bombing

OTD January 31 - Comet Hyakutake

OTD January 31 - John Rocker

OTD January 31 - Lockerbie bombing

OTD January 31 - Michael Jackson

OTD January 31 - Beyonce

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