Notable Historical Events on January 24th
January 24th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
41 |
Claudius succeeds his nephew Caligula as Roman Emperor after his assassination by Praetorian Guards. |
817 |
St Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV |
1076 |
Synod of Worms: German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII |
1118 |
Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II |
1458 |
Matthias I Corvinus chosen king of Hungary |
1534 |
Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy |
1568 |
Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire |
1568 |
In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw |
1613 |
Amsterdam merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized |
1616 |
Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver |
1634 |
Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor |
1639 |
Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders |
1644 |
Parliamentary army wins battle of Nantwich, Cheshire, English Civil War |
1648 |
Lord Baltimore's representative Margaret Brent ejected from the Maryland Council after requesting right to vote |
1652 |
Duke of Orleans joins Fronde rebels |
1656 |
1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland |
1659 |
Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe," premieres in Paris |
1679 |
King Charles II disbands English parliament |
1722 |
Tsar Peter the Great begins civil system |
1722 |
Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st north American divinity professor (Harvard) |
1742 |
German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor |
1764 |
Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire |
1776 |
Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga. |
1839 |
Charles Darwin elected Fellow of the Royal Society |
1847 |
1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Col Price |
1848 |
James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, Calif |
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. |
1861 |
Arsenal at Augusta, Ga seized by Confederacy |
1861 |
Federal troops from Ft Monroe are sent to Ft Pikens |
1862 |
Romanian principality arises under King Alexander Cuza |
1862 |
Bucharest proclaimed capital of Romania. |
1874 |
Gen J van Swieten conquerors Kraton Atjeh, after thousands die |
1874 |
Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St Petersburg |
1875 |
Camille Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre," premieres |
1878 |
Revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, Governor of Saint Petersburg. |
1892 |
Battle of Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries |
1899 |
Belgium government of Vandenpeereboom forms |
1899 |
Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan |
1900 |
Battle of Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900 |
Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, forms in England |
1901 |
1st games played in baseball's American League |
1901 |
Emily Hobhouse views the British administrated concentration camp at Bloemfontein for women and children |
1901 |
Denmark and the US sign a treaty under which Denmark will sell the Danish West Indies to the USA for $5 million, but the sale will be postponed until 1917 |
1908 |
Gen Baden-Powell starts Boy Scouts |
1913 |
Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished |
1914 |
Opera "Madeleine," premieres in NYC |
1915 |
German-British sea battle at Dogger Bank & Helgoland |
1916 |
The Military Service Bill, calling for conscription of men for war services, passes in the British House of Commons |
1922 |
-54°F (-48°C), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record) |
1922 |
Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo) |
1922 |
Lehman Caves National Monument established |
1923 |
Aztec Ruins National Monument, NM established |
1924 |
Benito Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union |
1924 |
Russian city of St Petersburg renamed Leningrad; it was changed back in 1991 |
1925 |
Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island |
1925 |
Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden |
1927 |
Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England. |
1930 |
J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ v England, Wellington |
1930 |
Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century |
1933 |
Noel Coward's "Design for Living," premieres in NYC |
1935 |
1st canned beer, "Kruger Cream Ale," is sold by American company Kruger Brewing Co. |
1936 |
Benny Goodman & orchestra record "Stompin' at the Savoy" on Victor Records |
1936 |
Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France |
1939 |
30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile |
1939 |
Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler & George Sisler elected to Hall of Fame |
1939 |
Spanish government moves to Figueras |
1941 |
British troops march into Abyssinia |
1942 |
Musical "Star & Garter," premieres in NYC |
1943 |
Hitler orders German troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death |
1943 |
Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau |
1944 |
Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy |
1945 |
Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg |
1947 |
NFL adds 5th official (back judge) & allows sudden death in playoffs |
1948 |
"Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 124 perfs |
1948 |
Australia all out 674 v India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*) |
1948 |
Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom & Democracy (VVD) |
1950 |
Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history |
1951 |
Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns |
1952 |
1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly NY Yanks |
1952 |
Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base |
1952 |
Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada. |
1954 |
BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter |
1954 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open |
1956 |
96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record) |
1958 |
After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion |
1959 |
"Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 38 perfs |
1959 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's comedy "Cheryomushk," premieres in Moscow |
1959 |
WHCT TV channel 18 in Hartford, CT (IND) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle |
1961 |
Edward Albee's "American Dream," premieres in NYC |
1961 |
Lazard Brothers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68 |
1962 |
28 refugees escape from East to West Germany |
1962 |
Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles |
1962 |
Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1962 |
Mickey Wright/Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
1963 |
Buddy Rogers & Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ & Thesz becomes NWA champ |
1964 |
CBS purchases 1964 & 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million |
1964 |
Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking |
1964 |
24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes |
1966 |
WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa |
1969 |
Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency |
1969 |
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce Brian Faulkner resigns from the Northern Ireland cabinet in protest at the policies of Prime Minister Terence O'Neill and the lack of 'strong government' |
1970 |
3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana |
1970 |
Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec) |
1971 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-6 |
1972 |
WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, TN (IND) 1st broadcast |
1972 |
Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. |
1973 |
Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1975 |
"Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV |
1975 |
Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England |
1976 |
Cleveland Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89) |
1976 |
George Foreman KOs Ron Lyle in 5th round of a real slugfest |
1977 |
5 lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid |
1977 |
Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy. |
1978 |
31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo |
1978 |
Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036) |
1979 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1981 |
Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques |
1981 |
Kim Hughes scores 213 v India at Adelaide |
1982 |
Super Bowl XVI: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 26-21 in Pontiac Michigan, MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB |
1983 |
Hulk Hogan pins Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title |
1984 |
Apple Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer |
1985 |
15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched |
1986 |
43th Golden Globes: Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win |
1986 |
NY Islander Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point |
1986 |
South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president |
1986 |
Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons |
1987 |
61st Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76) |
1988 |
1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins |
1988 |
76th Australian Mens Tennis: M Wilander beats P Cash (63 67 36 61 86) |
1988 |
9th ACE Cable Awards: Discovery Channel wins the Golden CableACE for "Russia: Live From the Inside" |
1988 |
Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win Cricket's World Series Cup |
1988 |
Cerebral Palsy telethon |
1989 |
1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex |
1990 |
Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon |
1991 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Theatre St Denis, Montreal |
1993 |
14th annual star-athon $24,000,000 |
1993 |
Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed |
1993 |
Soyuz TM-16 launches |
1993 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis |
1993 |
Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara. |
1994 |
Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48) |
2003 |
The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation. |
2006 |
After losing the federal election to Stephen Harper, Paul Martin resigns as leader of the Liberal party |
2009 |
Pope Benedict XVI rescinds the excommunications of four bishops consecrated without papal consent in 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. |
2011 |
At least 35 died and 180 injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport. |
2013 |
17 people are killed and 34 are injured in a bus crash in Taperas, Bolivia |
2013 |
A Japanese Coast guard ship engages a Taiwanese activist ship in the Senkaku Islands dispute |
2013 |
Russian police kill 13 rebels in Vedeno District, Chechnya |
2016 |
7.1 magnitude earthquake hits Alaska |
2016 |
Thai, Malaysian officials to investigate whether new debris is from MH370 |
2016 |
At least 13 dead after tourist boat capsizes near Nicaragua; more missing |
2017 |
China urges US to act and speak cautiously on South China Sea |
2017 |
Japan trade minister says will keep stressing importance of TPP to US |
2017 |
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton recovering after collapsing during speech |
2018 |
Thousands march against Trump in Zurich, other Swiss cities |
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