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January 24

January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 341 days remaining (342 in leap years).

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Contents

1 Events 1.1 upto 19th century 1.2 20th century 1.3 21st century 2 Births 2.1 upto 19th century 2.2 20th century 3 Deaths 3.1 upto 19th century 3.2 20th century 3.3 21st century 4 Holidays and observances

Events

upto 19th century

• 41 - Claudius is appointed Emperor of Rome after his nephew, Caligula, is assassinated.
• 1458 - Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
• 1679 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.
• 1742 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1848 - California gold rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
• 1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania (see December 1, 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions were still missing at this time).
• 1888 - Jacob L. Wortman patents the typewriter ribbon.

20th century

• 1908 - Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.
• 1916 - In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax void.
• 1922 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
• 1924 - St. Petersburg, Russia is renamed Leningrad.
• 1936 - Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
• 1952 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.
• 1962 - Brian Epstein signs to manage The Beatles.
• 1966 - An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117
• 1972 - Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier, is discovered on Guam.
• 1982 - Super Bowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals, 26-21 in the first Super Bowl played north of the Mason-Dixon line
• 1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
• 1986 - Voyager 2 passes within 50,679 miles of Uranus.
• 1987 - In Lebanon, gunmen kidnap Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh.
• 1989 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair.
• 1995 - The prosecution delivers its opening statement in the O. J. Simpson murder trial.
• 1996 - Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charge he spied for Moscow.

21st century

• 2001 - The last two of the Texas 7 are taken into custody in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• 2002 - Enron Congressional hearings begin.
• 2002 - Terrorist suspect John Walker Lindh's hearing begins.
• 2002 - The United States Department of Justice indicts Robert Nicholas Angleton for conspiring to murder his wife, Doris Angleton, along with his brother Roger.
• 2003 - The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.

Births

upto 19th century

• 76 - Hadrian, Roman emperor (d. 138)
• 1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
• 1776 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, poet, composer, and painter (d. 1822)
• 1862 - Edith Wharton, writer (d. 1937)
• 1888 - Vicki Baum, writer (d. 1960)
• 1888 - Ernst Heinkel, aircraft designer (d. 1958)
• 1895 - Eugen Roth, lyricist and narrator (d. 1976)

20th century

• 1917 - Ernest Borgnine, actor
• 1918 - Oral Roberts, evangelist
• 1925 - Maria Tallchief, prima ballerina
• 1928 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer
• 1934 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist (d. 1976)
• 1939 - Doug Kershaw, musician
• 1939 - Ray Stevens, country music musician
• 1943 - Sharon Tate, actress (d. 1969)
• 1944 - Neil Diamond, singer
• 1946 - Michael Ontkean, actor
• 1947 - Warren Zevon, American musician-songwriter (d. 2003)
• 1949 - John Belushi, actor (d. 1982)
• 1958 - Jools Holland, musician
• 1960 - Nastassja Kinski, actress
• 1968 - Mary Lou Retton, gymnast
• 1979 - Tatyana Ali, actress

Deaths

upto 19th century

• 41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (AD 37-41) (assassinated by his own guards) (b. AD 12)
• 1125 - David the Builder, king of Georgia (b. 1073)
• 1366 - King Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
• 1595 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
• 1882 - Levi Boone, mayor of Chicago, IL (b. 1808)

20th century

• 1920 - Amedeo Modigliani, painter, sculptor (b. 1884)
• 1932 - Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder (b. 1842)
• 1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and Muesli inventor (b. 1867)
• 1943 - John Burns, English politician (b. 1858)
• 1960 - Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, gold medal winner at 1908 Summer Olympics, inventor of Erector Set (b. 1884)
• 1965 - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1874)
• 1971 - Bill W., co-founder Alcoholics Anonymous
• 1973 - J. Carrol Naish, actor
• 1975 - Larry Fine, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges
• 1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
• 1986 - Gordon MacRae, actor, singer
• 1986 - Vincente Minnelli, director (b. 1903)
• 1989 - Ted Bundy, serial killer (electrocuted) (b. 1946)
• 1993 - Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court justice (b. 1908)

21st century

• 2003 - Gianni Agnelli, Fiat president (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire - first day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra
• Catholicism - Feast day of St. Francis de Sales.

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See Also:

January 23 - January 25 - December 24 - February 24 -- listing of all days

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