About January 24
January 24, 2024 is the 24th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 17 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 24
- 1438 –The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
- 1742 –Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- 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 fully-fledged university in south Asia.
- 1862 –Bucharest is proclaimed capital of Romania.
- 1878 –The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
- 1916 –In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
- 1939 –The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillán.
- 1942 –World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
- 1947 –Greek banker Dimitrios Maximos becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1960 –Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the “barricades week”, during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
- 1961 –1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
- 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.
- 1984 –The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
- 1993 –Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
- 1996 –Polish Premier Józef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow.
- 2011 –At least 35 died and 180 injured in a bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.
- 2039 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
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