What day of the week was January 31, 1945?

The day of the week January 31st, 1945 fell on was a Wednesday.

Eddie Slovik the American soldier (b. 1920) died on this day in 1945.

US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion the the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War. World War II: About 3 the000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed. World War II: the end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign the in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counter attack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.