January 24 Events |
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| January 24th, 2041 (January 24 2041) | Event | Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Claudius succeeds his nephew. | |
| January 24th, 2003 (January 24 2003) | Event | The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation. | |
| January 24th, 1996 (January 24 1996) | Event | Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow. | |
| January 24th, 1994 (January 24 1994) | Event | Turkey s First Satellite Turksat 1A falls into the ocean. | |
| January 24th, 1993 (January 24 1993) | Event | Turkish journalist and writer Ugur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara. | |
| January 24th, 1986 (January 24 1986) | Event | Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 km (50,680 miles) of Uranus. | |
| January 24th, 1984 (January 24 1984) | Event | The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale. | |
| January 24th, 1978 (January 24 1978) | Event | Soviet satellite Cosmos 954 burns up in Earth s atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada s Northwest Territories. | |
| January 24th, 1978 (January 24 1978) | Event | Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland. | Gallagher Quotes |
| January 24th, 1977 (January 24 1977) | Event | Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy. | |
| January 24th, 1972 (January 24 1972) | Event | Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. | |
| January 24th, 1966 (January 24 1966) | Event | An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117. | |
| January 24th, 1952 (January 24 1952) | Event | Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada. | |
| January 24th, 1943 (January 24 1943) | Event | World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca. | Winston Churchill Quotes |
| January 24th, 1936 (January 24 1936) | Event | Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France | |
| January 24th, 1927 (January 24 1927) | Event | Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England. | Alfred Hitchcock Quotes |
| January 24th, 1924 (January 24 1924) | Event | Petrograd, formerly Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad. | |
| January 24th, 1918 (January 24 1918) | Event | The Gregorian calendar introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People s Commissars effective from February 14(NS) | |
| January 24th, 1916 (January 24 1916) | Event | In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional. | |
| January 24th, 1907 (January 24 1907) | Event | Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scout movement. | |
| January 24th, 1887 (January 24 1887) | Event | Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians. | |
| January 24th, 1878 (January 24 1878) | Event | The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg. | |
| January 24th, 1862 (January 24 1862) | Event | Bucharest proclaimed capital of Romania. | |
| January 24th, 1859 (January 24 1859) | Event | Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler. | |
| January 24th, 1857 (January 24 1857) | Event | The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia. | |
| January 24th, 1848 (January 24 1848) | Event | California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter s Mill near Sacramento. | |
| January 24th, 1826 (January 24 1826) | Event | Mississippi College is founded in Clinton, becoming the first college in the state of Mississippi. | |
| January 24th, 1776 (January 24 1776) | Event | Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga. | |
| January 24th, 1742 (January 24 1742) | Event | Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. | Holy Roman Emperor Charles V Quotes |
| January 24th, 1679 (January 24 1679) | Event | King Charles II of England disbands Parliament. | |
| January 24th, 1438 (January 24 1438) | Event | The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa. | |
