" Given its general release in January 1931, City Lights proved to be a popular and financial success — eventually grossing over $ 5 million.

On January 28, 1931, King Victor Emanuel finally declared Clipperton to be a French possession.

Claude Piron ( 26 February 1931 – 22 January 2008 ) was a psychologist and a translator for the United Nations ( from Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish into French ) from 1956 to 1961.

The film opened in January 1931 and was a hit.

Alexander then held staff appointments as ( from January 1931 ) GSO2 in the Directorate of Military Training at the War Office and ( 1932-4 ) GSO1 at HQ Northern Command, York, before being made in October 1934 a temporary brigadier and given command of the Nowshera Brigade, on the Northwest Frontier in India.

The Patterson-Gimlin film ( also referred to as simply the Patterson film ) is a famous short motion picture of an unidentified subject the film makers purported to be a " Bigfoot ", that was supposedly filmed on October 20, 1967, by Roger Patterson ( February 14, 1926 – January 15, 1972 ) and Robert Gimlin ( October 18, 1931 ) on the Klamath River outside of Orleans, California.

On 16 January 1931 Mineichirō Adachi was appointed President, and Gustavo Guerro Vice-President.

On January 7, 1931, Summerall ’ s successor, General Douglas MacArthur, confidentially reopened work on a new design, involving the Washington Commission of Fine Arts.

Stig ' Stikkan ' Erik Leopold Anderson ( nee Andersson ) ( 25 January 1931 – 12 September 1997 ) was born in Hova, Sweden, and is best known as the manager of the pop group ABBA.

She had earlier appeared on the October 26, 1931 cover along-side her husband and on the January 3, 1937 cover with her husband as " Man and Wife of the Year )" Both husband and wife were on good terms with Time Magazine senior editor and co-founder Henry Luce, who frequently tried to rally money and support from the American public for the Republic of China.

His calculations are as of January 1, 1931.

With the Labor Party split between Scullin's supporters and Langites, and with a very popular leader ( Lyons had a genial manner and the common touch ), the UAP won the subsequent parliamentary elections in December 1931 in a massive landslide which saw the two wings of the Labor Party cut down to 18 seats between them, and Lyons became Prime Minister in January 1932.

* January 15 – Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1931 )

* January 6 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet, painter, and novelist ( d. 1931 )

* January 8 – James Milton Carroll, Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author ( d. 1931 )

* January 29 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist ( d. 1931 )

* In " Via the Time Accelerator " by F. J. Bridge ( a pseudonym of Francis J. Brueckel ), from the January 1931 issue of Amazing Stories, a time traveler in 1930 wonders if he should travel to the future, and then he sees himself returning from the future, which reassures him about the success of his voyage.

Turandot quickly spread to other venues: Rome ( Teatro Costanzi, April 29, four days after the Milan premiere ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colón, June 23 ), Dresden ( September 6, in German ), Venice ( La Fenice, September 9 ), Vienna ( October 14 ; Mafalda Salvatini in the title role ), Berlin ( November 8 ), New York ( Metropolitan Opera, November 16 ), Brussels ( La Monnaie, 17 December, in French ), Naples ( Teatro San Carlo, January 17, 1927 ), Parma ( February 12 ), Turin ( March 17 ), London ( Covent Garden, June 7 ), San Francisco ( September 19 ), Bologna ( October 1927 ), Paris ( March 29, 1928 ), Australia 1928, Moscow ( Bolshoi Theatre, 1931 ).

And it worked: When Lawrence applied 2, 000 volts of electricity to his makeshift cyclotron on January 2, 1931, he got 80, 000-electron volt protons spinning around ( at about 1 % the speed of light ).

Baptized on January 1, 1922, she gave up her assistantship with Husserl to teach at the Dominican nuns ' schools school in Speyer from 1923 to 1931.

Zhou " acknowledged " his mistakes in compromising with Li in January 1931 and offered to resign from the Politburo, but was retained while other senior CCP leaders, including Li Lisan and Qu Qiubai, were removed.

Mao's attempts to purge the Red Army of those who might potentially oppose him led Mao to accuse Chen Yi, the commander and political commissar of the Jiangxi Military Region, as a counterrevolutionary, provoking a violent reaction against Mao's persecutions that became known as the " Futian Incident " in January 1931.

In September 1930 he became a member of the Reichstag and in January 1931 NSDAP Gauleiter in north Westphalia.

Lyons served as acting Treasurer from August 1930 to January 1931 while Scullin was in Britain for the Imperial Conference.

When Scullin returned in January 1931, he reappointed Theodore ( as it had become clear Theodore would not be charged with corruption ) to the Cabinet as Treasurer, which Lyons took as a rejection of his own policies.

On 31 January 2001, at the end of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, Megrahi was convicted of murder and sentenced to 27 years in prison.

On January 31, 1977, it was taken by road to Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, to begin operational testing.

Jarrah arrived in the United States in June 2000, he trained at Florida Flight Training Center from June 2000 to January 2001, after relocating to Florida from New Jersey.

* January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Côte d ' Ivoire into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.

US Airways Flight 1549, January 15, 2009

* January 15, 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320-214 N106US ditches in the Hudson River, New York City after both engines are disabled by a birdstrike.

* January 24 – Air India Flight 101 crashes into Mont Blanc, killing all 117 persons on board, including Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission.

* January 13 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into Washington, D. C .' s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78.

* January 10-British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ) Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue and crashes in the Mediterranean Sea near Elba.

* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard.

* January 8 – US Airways Express Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte / Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people aboard.

From January to August 1941, story material was developed based on additional pieces, including Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner, The Swan of Tuonela by Jean Sibelius, Invitation to the Dance by Carl Maria von Weber, Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which was later adapted into the Bumble Boogie segment in Melody Time ( 1948 ), and there was even consideration for a segment inspired by the Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper by Jaromír Weinberger.

Ms. Lombard's plane TWA Flight 3 crashed into nearby Potosi Mountain on January 16, 1942.

Weehawken Volunteer First Aid and the Weehawken Police Department were among the many Hudson County agencies that responded to the January 2009 crash of Flight 1549, for which they received accolades from the survivors.

West New York's Emergency Medical Services was among the many Hudson County agencies that responded to the January 2009 crash of Flight 1549, for which they received accolades from the survivors.

National Airlines Flight 2511 blew up over Bolivia on January 6, 1960.

On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River shortly after taking off.

Mineta's testimony to the Commission on Flight 77 differs rather significantly from the account provided in the January 22, 2002 edition of The Washington Post, as reported by Bob Woodward and Dan Balz in their series " 10 Days in September "

* On 22 January 2002, the crew of Icelandair Flight 315, a Boeing 757-200 registered TF-FIO with 75 passengers on board, unintentionally entered a series of extreme manoeuvres during a go-around from a low altitude following an unstabilised approach into Oslo Airport, Gardermoen.

On January 22, 2009, it was reported that the development team was heavily affected by Microsoft's ongoing job cuts, with indications that the entire Microsoft Flight Simulator team had been laid off.

Flight tracking services FlightAware and FlightView indicated on 24 January 2008 that 604's initial flight was from Montreal ( CYUL ) to Tucson International airport ( KTUS ), having a planned cruise altitude of FL400.

" Flight Safety Magazine, January – February 2000.

* Dr Henri Coanda Flight International, 13 January 1973 p76

Ronald Reagan quoted from " High Flight " in his speech ( written by Peggy Noonan ) that followed the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.

Jean-Baptiste Drouet ( January 8, 1763 – April 11, 1824 ) was a French politician of the 1789 Revolution, chiefly noted for the part he played in the arrest of King Louis XVI during the Flight to Varennes.