Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/January/January 31
Book releases
- 1987 – Legend of the Galactic Heroes volume 8, by Yoshiki Tanaka
Television series
- 1992 – Capitol Critters, an animated television series about the lives of mice, rats, and roaches who reside in the basement and walls of the White House, begins airing on ABC
- 1998 – Spider-Man, an American animated series, finishes airing on Fox Kids
Deaths
- 2001 – Gordon R. Dickson (b. 1923), an American science fiction author