January 24

January 24 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 341 days remaining (342 in leap years).

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 of Houston, Texas on conspiring to murder his wife, Doris Angleton, along with his brother Roger. Robert also gets weapons-related charges.
• 2003 - The new United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.

Births

• 76 - Hadrian, Roman emperor († 138)
• 1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia († 1786)
• 1776 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, poet, composer, and painter († 1822)
• 1862 - Edith Wharton, writer († 1937)
• 1888 - Vicki Baum, writer († 1960)
• 1888 - Ernst Heinkel, aircraft designer († 1958)
• 1895 - Eugen Roth, lyricist and narrator († 1976)
• 1917 - Ernest Borgnine, actor
• 1918 - Oral Roberts, evangelist
• 1925 - Maria Tallchief, prima ballerina
• 1928 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer
• 1939 - Doug Kershaw, musician
• 1939 - Ray Stevens, country music musician
• 1943 - Sharon Tate, actress († 1969)
• 1944 - Neil Diamond, singer
• 1946 - Michael Ontkean, actor
• 1947 - Warren Zevon, American musician-songwriter († 2003)
• 1949 - John Belushi, actor († 1982)
• 1958 - Jools Holland, musician
• 1960 - Nastassja Kinski, actress
• 1968 - Mary Lou Retton, gymnast
• 1979 - Tatyana Ali, actress

Deaths

• 1366 - King Alfonso IV of Aragon
• 1920 - Amedeo Modigliani, painter, sculptor
• 1932 - Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder
• 1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and Muesli inventor
• 1960 - Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor
• 1965 - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1973 - J. Carrol Naish, actor
• 1975 - Larry Fine, actor (The Three Stooges)
• 1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, founder of Scientology
• 1986 - Gordon MacRae, actor, singer
• 1986 - Vincente Minnelli, director
• 1989 - Ted Bundy, serial killer (electrocuted)
• 1993 - Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court justice
• 2003 - Gianni Agnelli, Fiat president

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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