On This Day: January 31

7 verified moments happened on January 31. Here they are in the order they actually happened — the same kind of puzzle you solve in Whensly every day.

1. 1958🛰️ America launches Explorer 1, its first satellite, which discovers the Van Allen radiation belts circling Earth.Technology · Source: NASA, 'Explorer 1 Overview' (Jan 31 1958)
2. 1968💥 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch coordinated surprise attacks on cities across South Vietnam, shocking the American public.USA 250 · Source: U.S. State Department Office of the Historian, Tet Offensive begins (Jan 31 1968)
3. 1988🏈 Narrated nostalgia for the late '60s begins as ABC's The Wonder Years premieres right after the Super Bowl.TV · Source: Wikipedia (The Wonder Years season 1); CBS News
4. 1993The Dallas Cowboys rout the Buffalo Bills 52-17 in Super Bowl XXVII, the game of Leon Lett's fumble and Don Beebe's hustleSports · Source: Pro-Football-Reference, 'Super Bowl XXVII, January 31st, 1993'; Wikipedia, 'Super Bowl XXVII'
5. 1993Dallas Cowboys force a record nine turnovers to rout the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIIPro Football · Source: Pro-Football-Reference boxscore 199301310buf; Wikipedia: Super Bowl XXVII
6. 1999🐶 Family Guy premieres on Fox after the Super Bowl, introducing the chaotic Griffin family and their talking dog Brian.TV · Source: Wikipedia, 'Death Has a Shadow' (Jan 31 1999)
7. 2016Tony Stewart fractures a vertebra when his sand buggy nose-plants in the Southern California dunes, costing him the start of his final full seasonStock Car Racing · Source: ESPN and NASCAR.com — Stewart suffered a burst fracture of the L1 vertebra in an all-terrain accident on Jan 31, 2016