January 24

Friday 24, 2003:

The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.

Thursday 24, 2002:

The United States Department of Justice indicts Robert Nicholas Angleton for conspiring to murder his wife, Doris Angleton, along with his brother Roger.

Wednesday 24, 2001:

The last two of the Texas 7 are taken into custody in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Wednesday 24, 1996:

Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charge he spied for Moscow.

Tuesday 24, 1995:

The prosecution delivers its opening statement in the O. J. Simpson murder trial.

Tuesday 24, 1989:

Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair.

Saturday 24, 1987:

In Lebanon, gunmen kidnap Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh.

Friday 24, 1986:

Voyager 2 passes within 50,679 miles of Uranus.

Tuesday 24, 1984:

The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.

Sunday 24, 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

Monday 24, 1972:

Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier, is discovered on Guam.

Monday 24, 1966:

An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117

Wednesday 24, 1962:

Brian Epstein signs to manage The Beatles.

Thursday 24, 1952:

Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.

Wednesday 24, 1945:

Auschwitz, Concentration Camp in Poland is Liberated by Soviet Troops.

Sunday 24, 1943:

World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.

Friday 24, 1936:

Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France

Monday 24, 1927:

Young director Alfred Hitchcock released his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.

Thursday 24, 1924:

St. Petersburg, Russia is renamed Leningrad.

Tuesday 24, 1922:

Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.

Thursday 24, 1918:

A decree of the Council of People's Commissars, introducing the Gregorian calendar in Russia since February 1, issued

Monday 24, 1916:

In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.

Friday 24, 1908:

Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.

Tuesday 24, 1888:

Jacob L. Wortman patents the typewriter ribbon.

Monday 24, 1848:

California gold rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.

Wednesday 24, 1742:

Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.

Tuesday 24, 1679:

King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.

Wednesday 24, 1624:

Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.

Sunday 24, 1458:

Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.

Wednesday 24, 1438:

Pope Eugenius IV was suspended by the Council of Basel.

Thursday 24, 41:

Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, was assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards.

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