January 24
Events
41 -
Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his
eccentricity and cruel
despotism, is
assassinated by his disgruntled
Praetorian Guards.
Claudius succeeds his nephew.1438 - The
Council of Basel suspends
Pope Eugene IV 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.
1776 -
Henry Knox arrives at
Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from
Fort Ticonderoga.
1826 -
Mississippi College is founded in
Clinton, becoming the first college in the state of
Mississippi.
1848 -
California Gold Rush:
James W. Marshall finds
gold at
Sutter's Mill near
Sacramento.
1857 - The
University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in
south Asia.
1859 - Political union of
Moldavia and
Wallachia;
Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler.
1878 - The revolutionary
Vera Zasulich shoots at
Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of
Saint Petersburg.
1887 -
Battle of Dogali:
Abyssinian troops defeat
Italians.
1907 -
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 - The
Gregorian calendar introduced in
Russia by decree of the
Council of People's Commissars effective from
February 14(NS)
1924 - Petrograd, formerly
St. Petersburg,
Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
1927 - Director
Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film,
The Pleasure Garden, in
England.
1935 - The first cans of beer are sold in the US (Krueger's Finest Beer and Krueger's Cream Ale).
1936 -
Albert Sarraut becomes
Prime Minister of
France1943 -
World War II:
Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Winston Churchill conclude a conference in
Casablanca.
1952 -
Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first
Canadian-born
Governor-General of Canada.
1966 - An
Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on
Mont Blanc, on the border between
France and
Italy, killing 117.
1972 -
Japanese Sgt.
Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a
Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of
World War II.
1977 -
Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the
Spanish transition to democracy.
1978 -
Soviet satellite
Cosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over
Canada's Northwest Territories.
1984 - The first
Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
1986 -
Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 km (50,680 miles) of
Uranus.1986 -
Wapping dispute. Newspaper workers in London launch ultimately unsuccessful strike against
Rupert Murdoch's
News International.
1993 -
Turkish journalist and writer
Uğur Mumcu assassinated by a
car bomb in
Ankara1996 -
Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges he spied for
Moscow.
2003 - The
United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
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