January 31 - this day in history

On January 31, 1893, the Coca-Cola trademark is registered with the US Patent Office. In 1886, pharmacist John Pemberton presented a new product to investors, Coca-Cola, consisting of water, sugar, caffeine, extracts of coca leaves and cola nuts, and received the necessary investments.

1912 - the first page in the world of comics was published in the New York Evening Journal.

1924 - the 1st Winter Olympic Games, in which 16 teams took part, ended in Chamonix (France). Having won 17 medals, the team of Norway won the team event.

1933 - after the fall of the office of Paul Boncourt, Edouard Daladier became French Prime Minister. The economic sanctions, the introduction of which was to reanimate the state budget, led his office to resign by October 31.

1941 - the Kiev film studio of popular science films was created (since 1954 - Kiev film studios).

1950 - US President Harry Truman publicly announced support for a hydrogen bomb development project, a weapon, theoretically hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped by Americans on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

1961 - the United States launched a space rocket with chimpanzees on board. The rocket at a speed of 8000 km / h rose to an altitude of 250 km above the Earth. Chimpanzee returned to Earth without damage.

1971 - the Apollo-14 spacecraft launched from the cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral (Florida), piloted by astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Rus.