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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1993 –
    Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
  • 2003 –
    The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
  • 2009 –
    The storm Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France. It subsequently would cause 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.
  • 2011 –
    At least 35 died and 180 injured in a bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

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