January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 341 days remaining until the end of the year (342 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).
NATIONAL COMPLIMENT DAY
41 ― Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) succeeds his nephew Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) as Roman Emperor after his assassination by the Praetorian Guards.
1722 ― Tsar Peter the Great begins civil system.
1861 ― The U.S. arsenal at Augusta, Georgia, is seized by the Confederacy.
1943 ― German Field Marshall Friedrich von Paulus, commander in chief of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, urgently requests permission from Adolf Hitler to surrender his position there, but Hitler refuses. On February 2 he surrenders the army to the Soviets.
1958 ― After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in first man-made nuclear fusion reaction.
1962 ― Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson is the first African American elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame. Bob Feller is also elected.
1964 ― The 24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes.
2009 ― Pope Benedict XVI rescinds the excommunications of four bishops consecrated without papal consent in 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
AD 76 – Hadrian, Roman emperor (d. 138)
1712 – Frederick the Great, Prussian king (d. 1786)
1862 – Edith Wharton, American author and poet (d. 1937)
1943 – Sharon Tate, American model and actress, victim of the Mason Family murders (d. 1969)
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NATIONAL COMPLIMENT DAY
41 ― Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) succeeds his nephew Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) as Roman Emperor after his assassination by the Praetorian Guards.
1722 ― Tsar Peter the Great begins civil system.
1781 ― Patriot commanders Lieutenant Colonel "Light Horse" Henry Lee and Brigadier General Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion of the South Carolina militia combine forces and conduct a raid on Georgetown, South Carolina, which is defended by 200 British soldiers.
1861 ― The U.S. arsenal at Augusta, Georgia, is seized by the Confederacy.
1865 ― The Confederate Congress agrees to continue prisoner exchanges, opening a process that had operated only sporadically for three years
1901 ― The first professional games are played in baseball's newly-formed American League.
1916 ― Britain's Military Service Act, calling for conscription of men for war services, passes in the British House of Commons.
1922 ― A low temperature of -54°F (-48°C) is reached at Danbury, WI (state record).
1924 ― The Russian city of St. Petersburgh is renamed Leningrad and is then changed back in 1991.
1935 ― The First canned beer, "Kruger Cream Ale," is sold by American company Kruger Brewing Coompany.
1901 ― The first professional games are played in baseball's newly-formed American League.
1916 ― Britain's Military Service Act, calling for conscription of men for war services, passes in the British House of Commons.
1922 ― A low temperature of -54°F (-48°C) is reached at Danbury, WI (state record).
1924 ― The Russian city of St. Petersburgh is renamed Leningrad and is then changed back in 1991.
1935 ― The First canned beer, "Kruger Cream Ale," is sold by American company Kruger Brewing Coompany.
1943 ― German Field Marshall Friedrich von Paulus, commander in chief of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, urgently requests permission from Adolf Hitler to surrender his position there, but Hitler refuses. On February 2 he surrenders the army to the Soviets.
1958 ― After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in first man-made nuclear fusion reaction.
1962 ― Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson is the first African American elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame. Bob Feller is also elected.
1964 ― The 24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes.
1965 ― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the British leader who guided Great Britain and the Allies through the crisis of World War II, dies in London at the age of 90.
2009 ― Pope Benedict XVI rescinds the excommunications of four bishops consecrated without papal consent in 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
AD 76 – Hadrian, Roman emperor (d. 138)
1712 – Frederick the Great, Prussian king (d. 1786)
1862 – Edith Wharton, American author and poet (d. 1937)
1943 – Sharon Tate, American model and actress, victim of the Mason Family murders (d. 1969)
Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
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