WHAT HAPPENED ON 31. JANUARY
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The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow. (31. January 1990)

President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy. (31. January 1995)

An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400. (31. January 1996)

Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake. (31. January 1996)

Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard. (31. January 2000)

In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. (31. January 2001)

The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia. (31. January 2003)

Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq. (31. January 2007)

In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people. (31. January 2009)

Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide. (31. January 2010)

A winter storm hits North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people. (31. January 2011)

An explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City kills at least 33 people and injures more than 100. (31. January 2013)