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Meghan Trainor

Treat Myself is the third major-label studio album by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor (pictured). Epic Records released it on January 31, 2020, after delaying it for over a year while Trainor wrote more songs. She worked with producers including Mike Sabath and Tyler Johnson, and featured artists including Nicki Minaj and the Pussycat Dolls. The album is a pop, doo-wop, funk, and R&B album, with themes such as female duality, body image, self-esteem issues, and relationships. Trainor promoted it with public appearances and televised performances. Treat Myself includes the singles "No Excuses", "Wave", and "Nice to Meet Ya". Some reviewers thought the album effectively showcased Trainor's artistic range; others criticized its production choices and lyrical themes. It debuted at number 25 on the US Billboard 200 and peaked within the top 40 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Scotland, Spain, and Switzerland. (This article is part of a featured topic: Meghan Trainor albums.)

Faith and Confidence

• ... that even though Faith and Confidence (pictured) by William C. Beall won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for photography, the jurors who selected it were unimpressed by all of the entries?
• ... that a California TV station had a cartoon bee as its mascot?
• ... that Winter Renouf, a British member of the Indian Civil Service, thought that farmers in the Punjab should grow Canadian wheat varieties?
• ... that Van Morrison performed and recorded a collection of ancient Irish poems for Moles nightclub in Bath, Somerset?
• ... that Donald Sutherland asked to play Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games films as he hoped the series would inspire a revolutionary movement among young people?
• ... that a story about Call of Duty: Warzone led to Video Games Chronicle's Twitter account being temporarily locked?
• ... that the author of the Alex novels says they are not semi-autobiographical, even though she was herself a champion teenage swimmer like the protagonist?
• ... that the band Ryokuoushoku Shakai was named after its members misheard "vegetables" (野菜, yasai) as "society" (社会, shakai)?

Ingenuity on Mars

• Following damage to the helicopter's rotors, NASA ends the Ingenuity (pictured) mission on Mars after seventy-two flights in almost three years.
• The Ram Mandir, a temple to Rama, is consecrated at a disputed site in Ayodhya, India.
• Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's lunar module SLIM lands on the Moon.
• Protests break out in Bashkortostan, Russia, following the imprisonment of activist Fail Alsynov.
• Iran launches missile strikes in Pakistan and aerial strikes in Iraq and Syria, and Pakistan responds with retaliatory airstrikes.

January 31: Independence Day in Nauru (1968)

Bust of Sylvester I

• 314 – Sylvester I (bust depicted), during whose pontificate many churches in Rome were constructed by Constantine the Great, began his reign as pope.
• 1919 – Intense rioting over labour conditions broke out in Glasgow, Scotland, quelled only when the British government sent tanks to restore order.
• 1997 – Final Fantasy VII, the first video game in the Final Fantasy franchise to use 3-D computer graphics, was released.
• 2007 – Emergency officials in Boston mistakenly identified LED placards depicting characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force as IEDs, causing a panic.