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January 31

 * 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
 * 1915 - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russians.
 * 1917 - World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.
 * 1918 - A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
 * 1944 - World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
 * 1945 - US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed, the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion.