About January 24
January 24, 2020 is the 24th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 is one day 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.
- 1679 –King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament.
- 1742 –Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1817 –Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras were captured during the Action of Picheuta.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1984 –The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
- 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.
- 2001 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
- 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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