Antares is visible in the sky all night around May 31 of each year, when the star is at opposition to the Sun.

Under Sir William Balfour, they broke through the Royalist lines on the night of 31 August, eventually reaching Plymouth 30 miles to the east.

During a daring raid on Cremona on the night of 31 January / 1 February 1702 Eugene captured the French commander-in-chief.

On the night 9 May / 10 May 1940, Kelly was torpedoed amidships by a German E-boat S 31 of the Dutch coast and Mountbatten subsequently commanded the 5th Destroyer Flotilla from the destroyer HMS Javelin.

Lieutenant Nikolaos Votsis scored a major success for Greek morale on 31 October: he sailed his torpedo boat No. 11, under the cover of night, into the harbor of Thessaloniki, sank the old Ottoman ironclad battleship Feth-i Bülend and escaped unharmed.

On the night of 30 – 31 August 1939, he and Ribbentrop almost came to blows.

On the night of 30 – 31 August 1939, Ribbentrop had an extremely heated exchange with the British Ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, who objected to Ribbentrop's demand, given at about midnight, that if a Polish plenipotentiary did not arrive in Berlin that night to discuss the German " final offer ", then the responsibility for the outbreak of war would not rest on the Reich.

On the night of July 31, 1853, doctors at the local hospital needed to perform an emergency operation, virtually impossible by candlelight.

On a cold night in New Jersey, the Giants defeated Dallas Cowboys 31 – 14 in Week 17 to clinch the NFC East and thus their NFL record 31st playoff appearance, breaking their tie with the Cowboys at 30.

The first graffiti was painted by Major Waldemar Fydrych and Wiesław Cupała on the night from the 30 to 31 August 1982 on one of the residences in the Wrocław district of Biscupin and Sępolno.

The initial candidates included Cardinals Pole, Sfondrati, Carpi and Ridolfi ( who died on the night of 31 January ).

The night of Samhain, in Irish, Oíche Shamhna and Scots Gaelic, Oidhche Shamhna, is one of the principal festivals of the Celtic calendar, and falls on the October 31.

Over time, the night of October 31 came to be called All Hallow's Eve, and the remnants festival dedicated to the dead eventually morphed into the secular holiday known as Halloween.

Before Friday night dinner, it is customary to sing two songs, one " greeting " the Shabbat angels into the house and the other consisting of Ecclesiastes 31: 10-31, praising the woman of the house for all the work she has done over the past week.

On 31 January 1953, the North Sea Flood hit the island during the night and caused the deaths of 58 people.

On the night of 31 July the Royal army made its defensive preparations and started patrolling the city's narrow streets.

The use of fireworks is generally allowed on the evening and night of New Year's Eve, December 31.

On the night of 31 July 1932 there was a bomb attack on the headquarters of the Social Democrats in Königsberg, the Otto-Braun-House.

On 31 July 1975, coincidentally the night following the Miami Showband killings, Wright was sworn in as a member of the Young Citizen Volunteers ( YCV ), the UVF's youth wing.

* The colours orange and black represent the secular holiday Halloween ( 31 October ) because orange is the colour of pumpkins and black is the colour of night and is associated with doom, despair and darkness.

The 29th series finale, which was broadcast on 31 August 2008, was watched by 4. 2 million people, giving the network a 22. 5 % share for the night.

The command of the expedition in Buffalo, New York, was entrusted by Roberts to Colonel John O ' Neill, who crossed the Niagara River ( the Niagara is the international border ) at the head of at least 800 ( O ' Neill's figure ; usually reported as up to 1, 500 in Canadian sources ) men on the night and morning of 31 May / 1 June 1866, and briefly captured Fort Erie, defeating a Canadian force at Ridgeway.

On the night of 31 January 1953, the Netherlands was hit by the most destructive storm in more than five hundred years.

On the night of 31 August to 1 September, he raided Kraków.

On January 19, 1862, the ill-prepared Confederates, after a night march in the rain, attacked the Union force with some initial success.

But Douglass also asked, " Can any colored man, or any white man friendly to the freedom of all men, ever forget the night which followed the first day of January 1863, when the world was to see if Abraham Lincoln would prove to be as good as his word?

On 1 January 2011, a night dedicated to the show was screened by Channel 4 from 9pm to 11pm in celebration of its 15th anniversary year.

In the event, Hamidiye slipped through the Greek patrols on the night of 14 – 15 January and bombarded the harbor of the Greek island of Syros, sinking the Greek auxiliary cruiser Makedonia which lay in anchor there ( it was later raised and repaired ).

It is, however, normally only the start of a celebration which lasts through the night until the morning of New Year's Day ( 1 January ) or, in some cases, 2 January which is a Scottish Bank Holiday.

During the night between 5 and 6 January, at Jerusalem, the Haganah bombed the Semiramis Hotel that had been reported to hide Arab militiamen, killing 24 people.

* Burns night in Scotland – January 25

* Old New Year, celebrated on the night of January 13 or 14.

On January 4, 2000, Mihdhar left Yemen and flew to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where he spent the night.

He was arrested and subsequently assassinated by the Gestapo on the night of 4 January 1944 at Hørbylunde, near Silkeborg.

On the night of January, 18th 1996 a fire broke out in a home for foreign refugees, killing 10 people and severely injuring more than 30 others, mostly children.

The RAF bombing raid on the night of 16 January 1944, destroyed much of the city.

On the night of January 6, 2009, an all-time record low of − 17. 5 ° C was reached at Weeze airport, and many other stations around Nijmegen reached record or near-record low temperatures, as low as − 21 ° C (− 5 ° F ) at some places.

When Trotsky arrived in New York in January 1917, Bukharin was the first to greet him ( as Trotsky's wife recalled, " with a bear hug and immediately began to tell them about a public library which stayed open late at night and which he proposed to show us at once " dragging the tired Trotskys across town " to admire his great discovery ").

The Saxon calendar began on 25 December, and the months of December and January were called Yule ( or Giuli ) and contained a Modra niht or " night of the mothers ", another religious festival of unknown content.

Its first night of broadcasting was on January 16, 1995.

During the night 29 – 30 January 1943, Chapman with MI5 officers faked a sabotage attack on his target, the de Havilland aircraft factory in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where the Mosquito was being manufactured.

* January 25 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Emperor by the Senate.

* January 6 – Europe's coldest period in 500 years begins during the night, lasting three months and with its effects felt for the entire year.

In January 1985, the band headlined two nights of the first Rock in Rio festival at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and played in front of over 300, 000 people each night.

In January 1997, Queen performed " The Show Must Go On " live with Elton John and the Berjart Ballet in Paris on a night in which Freddie Mercury was remembered, and it marked the last performance and public appearance of John Deacon, who chose to retire.

While Makley, Clark and Pierpont extended their vacation by driving west to Tucson, Arizona, Dillinger and Hamilton left Florida on January 14, driving through the night to get to Chicago the next day.