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January 24 Gregorian calendar . There are 341 days remaining until the end of the year (342 in leap years ).
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 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 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 France 1943 - 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 .1978 - Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland .
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 Ankara 1996 - Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges he spied for Moscow .2003 - The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.Births [ ] 76 - Hadrian , Roman Emperor (d. 138 )1287 - Richard Aungerville , English bishop (d. 1345 )1444 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza , Duke of Milan (d. 1476 )1540 - Edmund Campion , English Jesuit (d. 1581 )1638 - Charles Sackville , English poet (d. 1706 )1670 - William Congreve , English playwright (d. 1729 )1674 - Thomas Tanner , English bishop (d. 1735 )1679 - Christian Wolff , German philosopher (d. 1754 )1705 - Farinelli , Italian castrato (d. 1782 )1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786 )1724 - Frances Brooke , English writer (d. 1789 )1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais , French playwright (d. 1799 )1742 - Anne (d. 1808 )1752 - Muzio Clementi , Italian composer (d. 1832 )1754 - Andrew Ellicott , American surveyor (d. 1820 )1763 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron , Russian general (d. 1831 )1776 - E.T.A. Hoffmann , German writer (d. 1822 )1779 - Elizabeth Alexeievna , Russian tsarina (d. 1826 )1848 - Vasily Surikov , Russian painter (d. 1916 )1862 - Edith Wharton , American writer (d. 1937 )1864 - Marguerite Durand , French feminist leader (d. 1936 )1872 - Konstantin Bogaevsky , Russian painter (d. 1943 )1873 - Leon Czolgosz , American anarchist, assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (d. 1901 )1888 - Vicki Baum , Austrian writer (d. 1960 )1888 - Ernst Heinkel , German aircraft designer (d. 1958 )
1891 - Walter Model , German field marshal (d. 1945 )1895 - Eugen Roth , German writer (d. 1976 )1898 - Cliff Heathcote , American baseball player (d. 1939 )1901 - Harry Calder , South African cricketer (d. 1995 )1902 - E. A. Speiser , American Bible scholar (d. 1965 )1905 - J. Howard Marshall , American billionaire (d. 1995 )1907 - Maurice Couve de Murville , French politician (d. 1999 )1909 - Martin Lings , English Islamic scholar (d. 2005 )1909 - Ann Todd , English actress (d. 1993 )
1913 - Norman Dello Joio , American composer1915 - Robert Motherwell , American painter (d. 1991 )1916 - Jack Brickhouse , American sports broadcaster (d. 1998 )1917 - Ernest Borgnine , American actor1918 - Oral Roberts , American evangelist1919 - Coleman Francis , American film director1922 - Charles Socarides , American psychiatrist (d. 2005 )1925 - Maria Tallchief , American ballerina1927 - Sir Patrick Macnaghten , British aristocrat (d. 2007 )1928 - Desmond Morris , British anthropologist1928 - Michel Serrault , French actor
1934 - Stanisław Grochowiak , Polish poet (d. 1976 )1936 - Doug Kershaw , American musician1939 - Ray Stevens , American musician1941 - Neil Diamond , American singer1941 - Aaron Neville , American singer
1943 - Subhash Ghai , Indian film director1943 - Sharon Tate , American actress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969 )
1944 - Klaus Nomi , German singer (d. 1983 )1945 - John Garamendi , American politician1946 - Michael Ontkean , Canadian actor1947 - Warren Zevon , American musician (d. 2003 )1949 - John Belushi , American actor (d. 1982 )1950 - Gerald Brisco , American professional wrestler1950 - Benjamin Urrutia , Ecuadorian writer
1950 - Daniel Auteuil , French actor
1951 - Yakov Smirnoff , Ukrainian-born American comedian1954 - Jo Gartner , Austrian racing driver (d. 1986 )1956 - Hanne Krogh , Norwegian singer (Bobbysocks )1957 - Adrian Edmondson , British comedian1958 - Neil Allen , American baseball player1958 - Jools Holland , British musician
1959 - Vic Reeves , English comedian1961 - Nastassja Kinski , German-born actress1961 - Vince Russo , American writer
1963 - Martyn Grimley , English field hockey player1963 - Arnold Vanderlyde , Dutch boxer
1965 - Carlos Saldanha , brazilian director 1965 - Mike Awesome , American professional wrestler (d. 2007 )1966 - Jimeoin , Northern Irish comedian1967 - Mark Kozelek , American singer/songwriter (Red House Painters , Sun Kil Moon )1967 - Phil LaMarr , American voice actor
1967 - John Myung , American musician (Dream Theater )
1968 - Michael Kiske , German musician1968 - Mary Lou Retton , American gymnast
1969 - Hilmir Snær Guðnason , Icelandic actor1970 - Matthew Lillard , American actor1971 - Cory Bailey , American baseball player1972 - Naoshi Mizuta , Japanese composer1974 - Shii Ann Huang , American game show contestant1974 - Ed Helms , American actor1975 - Rónald Gómez , Costa Rican footballer1976 - Shae-Lynn Bourne , Canadian ice dancer with Victor Kraatz 1979 - Tatyana Ali , American actress1980 - Nicole Marie Lenz , American actress1981 - Travis Hanson , American baseball player1983 - Shaun Maloney , Scottish footballer1983 - Scott Speed , American race car driver
1984 - Scott Kazmir , American baseball player1984 - Witold Kiełtyka , Polish drummer (Decapitated ) (d. 2007 )
1986 - Mischa Barton , English-born American actress1986 - Raviv Ullman , Israeli-born American actor
1989 - Calvin Goldspink , English singerDeaths [ ] 41 - Caligula , Emperor of Rome (b. 12 )772 - Pope Stephen III (b. 720 )1002 - Otto III (b. 980 )1125 - David IV of Georgia (b. 1073 )1366 - Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299 )1376 - Richard FitzAlan , English military leader1473 - Conrad Paumann , German composer1595 - Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529 )1626 - Samuel Argall , English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580 )1639 - Georg Jenatsch , Swiss politician (b. 1596 )1666 - Johann Andreas Herbst , German composer (b. 1588 )1709 - George Rooke , English admiral (b. 1650 )1769 - François de Chevert , French general (b. 1695 )1856 - Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir , Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775 )1877 - Johann Christian Poggendorff , German physicist (b. 1796 )1882 - Levi Boone , Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808 )1883 - Friedrich von Flotow , German composer (b. 1812 )1895 - Lord Randolph Churchill , British politician (b. 1849 )1911 - David Graham Phillips , American journalist and novelist (b. 1867 )1920 - Amedeo Modigliani , Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884 )1924 - Marie-Adélaïde (b. 1894 )1932 - Alfred Yarrow , English shipbuilder (b. 1842 )1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner , Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. 1867 )1943 - John Burns , English politician (b. 1858 )1948 - Maria Mandel , Camp Leader at Auschwitz (b. 1912 )1948 - Arthur Liebehenschel , Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1901 )
1955 - Ira Hayes , American World War II hero (b. 1923 )1960 - Edwin Fischer , Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886 )1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert , American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884 )1962 - Stanley Lord , captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (b. 1877 )1962 - André Lhote , french painter.
1965 - Winston Churchill , soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate (b. 1874 )1966 - Homi J. Bhabha , Indian physicist (b. 1909 )1970 - Caresse Crosby , American poet (b. 1891 )1971 - Bill W. , American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895 )1973 - J. Carrol Naish , American actor (b. 1896 )1975 - Larry Fine , American actor and comedian (b. 1902 )1978 - Herta Oberheuser , German doctor (b. 1911 )1982 - Alfredo Ovando Candía , Bolivian president and dictator (b. 1918 )1983 - George Cukor , American film director (b. 1899 )1986 - L. Ron Hubbard , American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911 )1986 - Flo Hyman , American volleyball player (b. 1954 )
1986 - Gordon MacRae , American actor and singer (b. 1921 )
1988 - Werner Fenchel , German mathematician (b. 1905 )1989 - Ted Bundy , American serial killer (b. 1946 )1989 - George Knudson , Canadian golfer (b. 1937 )
1990 - Madge Bellamy , American actress (b. 1899 )1991 - John M. Kelly , Irish politician and academic (b. 1931 )1992 - Ricky Ray Rector , American murderer (b. 1950 )1993 - Thurgood Marshall , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908 )1998 - Walter D. Edmonds , American author (b. 1903 )2000 - Bobby Duncum , American professional wrestler (b. 1965 )2001 - Les Brown , American band leader (b. 1912 )2002 - Peter Gzowski , Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (b. 1934 )2002 - Elie Hobeika , Lebanese Forces militia commander (b. 1956 )
2003 - Gianni Agnelli , Italian auto executive (b. 1921 )2004 - Leônidas da Silva , Brazilian footballer (b. 1913 )2005 - June Bronhill , Australian singer (b. 1929 )2005 - Vladimir Savchenko , Ukrainian writer (b. 1933 )
2005 - Chalkie White , English rugby union coach (b. 1929 )
2006 - Fayard Nicholas , American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914 )2006 - Schafik Handal , Salvadorean politician
2006 - Chris Penn , American actor (b. 1965 )
2007 - Krystyna Feldman , Polish actress (b. 1920 )2007 - Guadalupe Larriva , Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956 ) Holidays and observances [ ] External links [ ]
149 Familypedia people were born on January 24
135 Familypedia people died on January 24
109 Familypedia people were first married on January 24