Monday, January 31, 2011

January 31

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 1747 The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. Buried Alive Drenched in Disease Death of Your Perfect World
2 1846 After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Braid Milwaukee Sky Rocket Frame & Canvas
3 1862 Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch telescope now located at Northwestern University. Deerhoof Siriustar The Runners Four
4 1876 The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations. Wilco Reservations Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
5 1930 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape. Floorpunch Stick Together Division One Champs
6 1958 James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt. The Apples in Stereo Radiation New Magnetic Wonder
7 1990 The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow. Wesley Willis Rock n Roll McDonalds Greatest Hits

(Historical facts about January 31 are from Wikipedia.)

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