About January 24
January 24, 2021 is the 24th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 341 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 19 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 24
- 41 –Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims Caligula’s uncle Claudius as Emperor
- 1438 –The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
- 1817 –Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras were captured during the Action of Picheuta.
- 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.
- 1859 –Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler.
- 1862 –Bucharest is proclaimed capital of Romania.
- 1918 –The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People’s Commissars effective February 14(NS)
- 1936 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 1939 –The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillán.
- 1943 –World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
- 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.
- 1978 –Soviet satellite Cosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor onboard, burns up in Earth’s atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada’s Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
- 1986 –Voyager 2 passes within 81500 km of Uranus.
- 1990 –Japan launches Hiten, the country’s first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
- 1996 –Polish Premier Józef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow.
- 2003 –The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
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