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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 - Comet Hyakutake — 33 / 38

E. Kolmhofer, H. Raab/Johannes-Kepler-Observatory

1996: Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake. The comet's passage near the Earth was one of the closest cometary approaches of the previous 200 years.

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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