January 24
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January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 341 days remaining after January 24 until the end of the year (342 in leap years).
[change] Births
- 3 BC – Galba, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
- 76 – Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)
- 1444 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
- 1679 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754)
- 1712 – Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
- 1746 – King Gustav III of Sweden (d. 1792)
- 1749 – Charles James Fox, British politician (d. 1806)
- 1776 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German writer (d. 1822)
- 1828 – Ferdinand Cohn, German botanist and microbiologist (d. 1898)
- 1850 – Hermann Ebbinghaus, German psychologist (d. 1909)
- 1862 – Edith Wharton, American writer (d. 1937)
- 1864 – Marguerite Durand, French Women's rights activist (d. 1936)
- 1872 – Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
- 1888 – Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958)
- 1895 – Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976)
- 1901 – A. M. Cassandre, Ukrainian-born French artist (d. 1968)
- 1910 – Doris Haddock (Granny D), American political activist (d. 2010)
- 1916 – Rafael Caldera, President of Venezuela (d. 2009)
- 1917 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor
- 1918 – Oral Roberts, American evangelist (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter
- 1928 – Desmond Morris, British zoologist, publicist and artist
- 1940 – Joachim Gauck, German pastor, activist, publicist and former Presidential Candidate
- 1941 – Neil Diamond, American singer
- 1941 – Dan Shechtman, Israeli scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1943 – Peter Struck, German politician
- 1943 – Sharon Tate, American actress (d. 1969)
- 1944 – Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
- 1947 – Michio Kaku, American theoretical physicist
- 1948 – Michael Des Barres, British actor and singer
- 1949 – John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1957 – Adrian Edmondson, English comedian
- 1958 – Jools Holland, English pianist, bandleader and television presenter
- 1959 – Vic Reeves, English comedian
- 1961 – Guido Buchwald, German footballer
- 1961 – Natassja Kinski, German-born actress
- 1977 – Kensuke Kita, Japanese guitarist
- 1979 – Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer
- 1981 – Michael Wolf, German ice hockey player
- 1983 – Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
- 1983 – Scott Speed, American racing driver
- 1986 – Mischa Barton, English-born actress
- 1987 – Luis Suarez, Uruguayan footballer
- 1988 – Jade Ewen, English singer
- 1989 – Ki Sung-Yueng, South Korean footballer
[change] Deaths
- 41 – Caligula, Roman Emperor (b. 12)
- 772 – Pope Stephen III (b. 721)
- 1002 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
- 1125 – King David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
- 1366 – Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
- 1595 – Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
- 1877 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
- 1895 – Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)
- 1920 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
- 1924 – Marie-Adelaide, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
- 1965 – Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1874)
- 1980 – Lil Dagover, Dutch-German actress (b. 1887)
- 1986 – L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
- 1989 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
- 1993 – Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908)
- 1993 – Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1942)
- 2003 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman and auto executive (b. 1921)
- 2004 – Leonidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)
- 2007 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican supercentenarian (b. 1891)
- 2009 – Kay Yow, American basketball coach (b. 1942)
- 2011 – Bhimsen Joshi, Indian musician (b. 1922)
- 2011 – Bernd Eichinger, German film director and producer (b. 1949)
[change] Events
- 41 – Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, was assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards.
- 1438 – Pope Eugenius IV was suspended by the Council of Basel.
- 1458 – Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
- 1624 – Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
- 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.
- 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 constitutional.
- 1918 – A decree of the Council of People's Commissars, introducing the Gregorian calendar in Russia since February 1, issued
- 1922 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
- 1924 – St. Petersburg, Russia is renamed Leningrad.
- 1927 – Young director Alfred Hitchcock released his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
- 1936 – Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1939 - Chillan, in Chile, is hit by a deadly earthquake.
- 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
- 1945 – Auschwitz, Concentration Camp in Poland is Liberated by Soviet Troops.
- 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, where he was hiding in a cave since 1944.
- 1976 - An earthquake kills 3,850 people in Turkey.
- 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.
- 1990 - Japan launches Hiten, its first lunar probe.
- 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.
- 2009 - The storm Klaus makes landfall in Bordeaux, France, on the way to causing large destruction and 26 deaths.
- 2011 - A bombing at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow kills 35 people.
