What big event happen on Jan 31st of 1984 or in the same month?

Answer 1

January 1984 events.....
January 1 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state.
January 1 - Bell System divestiture breaks AT&T into 24 independent units.
January 3 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan meets with Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman and the Reverend Jesse Jackson at the White House, following Lieutenant Goodman's release from Syrian captivity.
January 5 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
January 7 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
January 9 - Clara Peller is featured in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's for the first time.
January 10 - The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
January 23 - The Peace and Friendship Treaty is signed between Argentina and Chile in Vatican City.
January 23 - Hulk Hogan defeats The Iron Sheik for the World Wrestling Federation Championship in Madison Square Garden. The cultural movement known as Hulkamania is born.
January 24 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
January 27 - Pop star Michael Jackson's scalp is seriously burned by pyrotechnics during filming of a Pepsi television commercial.

Answer 2

interesting anniversary.
What happened on this day in history.
JANUARY 31st

On this day in history in 1606, Guy Fawkes was executed by burning on a bonfire.
Everyone knows about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot, and how Fawkes and other conspirators planted 36 barrels of gunpowder underneath Parliament, and the plot was foiled at the last minute on November 5th and how Fawkes was burnt on a bonfire and that we have bonfires every year to celebrate.

What is perhaps not as well known is that Fawkes was not the major conspirator. That dishonour belonged to Robert Catesby who enlisted Fawkes as all the other conspirators were known to the authorities, and if seen would arouse immediate suspicion. Fawkes planted the gunpowder on the instructions of Catesby, without knowing the full details of the plot.

Fawkes was the only person to be captured when the plot was uncovered, hence his name is given to Guy Fawkes Night and his effigy is ceremonially burnt. It was only when he was subjected to torture, that he revealed Catesby’s name.

Fawkes was an old boy of St Peter’s School of York, an ancient and venerable college, who celebrate Guy Fawkes Night with a bonfire, but burn no guy in deference to their former student.