Online Encyclopedia

Categories: Days

January 24

(Redirected from 24 January)

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

Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

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 .
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.
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

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)
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

41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (37-41 AD) (assassinated by his own guards) (b. 12)
1125 - David the Builder, king of Georgia (b. 1073)
1366 - King Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
1882 - Levi Boone, mayor of Chicago, IL (b. 1808)
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 (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)
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 .

See Also:

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