All about January 31, 1979: Significant Events, Facts, Analysis and Date Notations

Facts about January 31, 1979:

• 31st January, 1979 falls on Wednesday which is a Weekday.
• That was 5th (Fifth) week of year 1979.
• It's 30th (Thirtieth) Day of the year.
• There are 31 days in the month of January 1979. Checkout the days in other months of 1979 along with days in January 1979.
• Year 1979 has 365 days in total.
• The month January was 1st month of Year 1979.
• The month January is also known as Januari, Janwari, Janvary, Januarie, meno mo, Janar, Janner, Januaro, Januar, Januario, Januari, Janero, and Yanul across the Globe.

• Country-wise Date Representation of January 31 across the World:

  Country Names	Notation of the Date	Long Date Format	Short Date Format
  The United States of America (USA)	MDY (MM-DD-YYYY) (a.k.a. middle-endian) and YMD (YYYY-MM-DD) (a.k.a. big-endian)	January 31, 1979 and 1979 January 31	January 31
  Some U.S. Island Territories	MDY (MM-DD-YYYY) (a.k.a. middle-endian)	January 31, 1979	January 31
  Europe: Italy, Ukraine, Romania, Netherlands, and others North America: Mexico, various Caribbean islands Central America: Guatemala, Honduras, and others South America: Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, and others North Africa: Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and others West, Central, and Southern Africa: Nigeria, Ethiopia, DRC, Tanzania, Sudan, Uganda, and others West Asia: Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and others Central Asia: Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan East and Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and others South Asia: Pakistan, Bangladesh Oceania: Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and others	DMY (DD-MM-YYYY) (a.k.a. little-endian)	31 January 1979	31 January
  China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, Hungary, Mongolia, Lithuania and Bhutan	YMD (YYYY-MM-DD) (a.k.a. big-endian)	1979 January 31	January 31
  Bharat (India), Russia, Vietnam, Germany, Iran, France, United Kingdom, Myanmar, Spain, Poland, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Cameroon, Sri Lanka, others	DMY (DD-MM-YYYY) (a.k.a. little-endian) and YMD (YYYY-MM-DD) (a.k.a. big-endian)	31 January 1979 and 1979 January 31	31 January and January 31
  Philippines, Malaysia, Somalia, Togo, Panama, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands, Greenland	DMY (DD-MM-YYYY) (a.k.a. little-endian) and MDY (MM-DD-YYYY) (a.k.a. middle-endian)	31 January 1979 and January 31, 1979	31 January and January 31
  South Africa, Kenya, Canada, Ghana	MDY (MM-DD-YYYY) (a.k.a. middle-endian) and YMD (YYYY-MM-DD) (a.k.a. big-endian) and DMY (DD-MM-YYYY) (a.k.a. little-endian)	January 31, 1979 and 1979 January 31 and 31 January 1979	January 31 and 31 January

• Year 1979 was NOT a Leap Year.
  Note: In a Leap Year there are 366 days (a year, occurring once every four years, which has 366 days including 29 February as an intercalary day.), rest years have 365 days.
• Year 2024 will be the nearest future leap year.