January 31
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Fun Fact:
1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star "Sirius B," a companion of Sirius, through an eighteen inch telescope at Northwestern University.
1958 – The United States enters the "space age" by launching the first successful orbiting satellite, "Explorer 1."
1958 – Discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt.
2405 – Joseph Daher is assigned as commanding officer of the USS Titan, CL-2007.
Humans are the only mammals on Earth with chins.