This Day In History JANUARY 24

JANUARY 24 817 St Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV   
JANUARY 24 817 St Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV   
JANUARY 24 1118 Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II   
JANUARY 24 1458 Matthias I Corvinus chosen King of Hungary   
JANUARY 24 1534 Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy   
JANUARY 24 1568 Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire   
JANUARY 24 1568 In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw   
JANUARY 24 1613 Amsterdam merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized   
JANUARY 24 1616 Dutch mariner Jacob Le Maire discovers Le Maire Strait, Tierra del Fuego   
JANUARY 24 1634 Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor   
JANUARY 24 1639 Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders   
JANUARY 24 1644 Parliamentary army wins battle of Nantwich, Cheshire, English Civil War   
JANUARY 24 1648 Lord Baltimore's representative Margaret Brent ejected from the Maryland Council after requesting right to vote   
JANUARY 24 1652 Duke of Orleans joins Fronde rebels   
JANUARY 24 1656 1st Jewish doctor in North American colonies, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland   
JANUARY 24 1722 Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st north American divinity professor (Harvard)   
JANUARY 24 1742 German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor   
JANUARY 24 1764 Governor Winthrop's Telescope is destroyed in a Harvard fire   
JANUARY 24 1776 Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga   
JANUARY 24 1847 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Colonel Price   
JANUARY 24 1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California   
JANUARY 24 1857 University of Calcutta founded as the first full-fledged university in South Asia   
JANUARY 24 1859 Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler   
JANUARY 24 1861 Federal troops from Ft Monroe are sent to Ft Pikens   
JANUARY 24 1862 Romanian principality arises under King Alexander Cuza. Bucharest proclaimed its capital.   
JANUARY 24 1874 Gen J van Swieten conquers Kraton Atjeh, after thousands die   
JANUARY 24 1874 Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov" premieres in St Petersburg   
JANUARY 24 1875 Camille Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" premieres   
JANUARY 24 1878 Revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, Governor of Saint Petersburg   
JANUARY 24 1892 Battle of Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries   
JANUARY 24 1899 Belgium government of Vandenpeereboom forms   
JANUARY 24 1899 Rubber heel for boots or shoes patented by American Humphrey O'Sullivan   
JANUARY 24 1900 Battle of Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)   
JANUARY 24 1900 Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, forms in England   
JANUARY 24 1901 1st games played in baseball's American League   
JANUARY 24 1901 Emily Hobhouse views the British administrated concentration camp at Bloemfontein for women and children   
JANUARY 24 1901 Denmark and the US sign a treaty under which Denmark will sell the Danish West Indies to the USA for $5 million, but the sale will be postponed until 1917   
JANUARY 24 1914 Opera "Madeleine" premieres in NYC   
JANUARY 24 1915 German-British sea battle at Dogger Bank & Helgoland   
JANUARY 24 1916 The Military Service Bill, calling for conscription of men for war services, passes in the British House of Commons   
JANUARY 24 1920 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Sydney: Englishman Algernon Kingscote beats Eric Pockley of Australia 6-4, 6-0, 6-3   
JANUARY 24 1921 Paris Conference on reparations is held   
JANUARY 24 1922 -54°F (-48°C), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record)   
JANUARY 24 1922 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)   
JANUARY 24 1922 Lehman Caves National Monument established   
JANUARY 24 1923 Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico established   
JANUARY 24 1930 J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ v England, Wellington   
JANUARY 24 1930 Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century   
JANUARY 24 1933 Noel Coward's "Design for Living" premieres in NYC   
JANUARY 24 1936 Benny Goodman & orchestra record "Stompin' at the Savoy" on Victor Records   
JANUARY 24 1936 Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France   
JANUARY 24 1939 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile   
JANUARY 24 1943 Jewish patients, nurses and doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau   
JANUARY 24 1944 Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy   
JANUARY 24 1945 Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg   
JANUARY 24 1947 NFL adds 5th official (back judge) & allows sudden death in playoffs   
JANUARY 24 1948 "Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 124 performances   
JANUARY 24 1951 Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns   
JANUARY 24 1952 1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly NY Yanks   
JANUARY 24 1952 Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base   
JANUARY 24 1954 BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter   
JANUARY 24 1955 Photography exhibition "The Family of Man" curated by Edward Steichen opens at MOMA, New York, "greatest photographic enterprise ever undertaken"   
JANUARY 24 1956 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)   
JANUARY 24 1956 An inquiry considers building homes in a war devastated area in London   
JANUARY 24 1961 Lazard Brothers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68   
JANUARY 24 1962 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany   
JANUARY 24 1962 Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles   
JANUARY 24 1962 Jackie Robinson is 1st African American elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame. Bob Feller is also elected.   
JANUARY 24 1963 Buddy Rogers & Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ & Thesz becomes NWA champion   
JANUARY 24 1964 CBS purchases 1964 & 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million   
JANUARY 24 1964 Eric de Noorman, a Dutch comic strip by Hans G. Kresse, ends   
JANUARY 24 1964 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes   
JANUARY 24 1966 WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting   
JANUARY 24 1966 117 passengers are killed after an Air India Boeing-707 plane crashes into Mont Blanc, France   
JANUARY 24 1968 Operation Coburg, an Australian and New Zealand military action during the Vietnam War, begins   
JANUARY 24 1969 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa   
JANUARY 24 1969 Deputy Prime Minister Brian Faulkner resigns from the Northern Ireland cabinet in protest at the lack of 'strong government' on the part of PM Terence O'Neill   
JANUARY 24 1969 Students protest the erection of steel gates around the London School of Economics   
JANUARY 24 1970 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana   
JANUARY 24 1970 Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec)   
JANUARY 24 1971 21st NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: NFC beats AFC, 27-6; MVPs: Fred Carr, Green Bay Packers, LB; Mel Renfro, Dallas Cowboys, CB   
JANUARY 24 1972 WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, TN (IND) 1st broadcast   
JANUARY 24 1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.   
JANUARY 24 1973 Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame   
JANUARY 24 1974 10th British Commonwealth Games open in Christchurch, New Zealand   
JANUARY 24 1975 "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV   
JANUARY 24 1975 Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England   
JANUARY 24 1976 Cleveland Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89)   
JANUARY 24 1977 Massacre of Atocha in Madrid: Five labor lawyers murdered by fascists in Madrid during the Spanish transition to democracy   
JANUARY 24 1978 31st NHL All-Star Game, Buffalo Municipal Auditorium: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 3-2 (OT); MVP: Billy Smith, NY Islanders, G   
JANUARY 24 1978 Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036)   
JANUARY 24 1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   
JANUARY 24 1981 Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques   
JANUARY 24 1981 Kim Hughes scores 213 v India at Adelaide   
JANUARY 24 1986 South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president   
JANUARY 24 1986 Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons   
JANUARY 24 1986 Leon Brittan, Trade and Industry Secretary under Thatcher is 2nd cabinet minister to resign after 'Westland affair'   
JANUARY 24 1988 1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins   
JANUARY 24 1988 9th ACE Cable Awards: Discovery Channel wins the Golden CableACE for "Russia: Live From the Inside"   
JANUARY 24 1988 Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup   
JANUARY 24 1988 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $21 million   
JANUARY 24 1988 NBC premiere of fact based "The Murder of Mary Phagan"   
JANUARY 24 1988 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander wins 3rd Australian title; beats home town favourite Pat Cash 6-3, 6-7, 3-6, 6-1, 8-6   
JANUARY 24 1988 4th Sundance Film Festival: "Heat and Sunlight" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic   
JANUARY 24 1989 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex   
JANUARY 24 1990 Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon   
JANUARY 24 1990 14th Commonwealth Games open in Auckland, New Zealand   
JANUARY 24 1990 LAs' Pat Riley becomes the 13th and fastest coach to reach the 500-victory plateau as the Lakers down the Indiana Pacers, 120-111; Riley (500-184) surpasses Don Nelson (500-317) to reach milestone   
JANUARY 24 1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Theatre St Denis, Montreal   
JANUARY 24 1993 14th annual star-athon $24,000,000   
JANUARY 24 1993 Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed   
JANUARY 24 1993 Soyuz TM-16 launches   
JANUARY 24 1993 US men's Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis   
JANUARY 24 1993 Turkish journalist and writer U?ur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.   
JANUARY 24 1994 Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)   
JANUARY 24 1999 David Duval eagles the 18th hole for a final round 59 to win the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic at PGA West to become only the 3rd player to fire a sub-60 round on the PGA Tour   
JANUARY 24 2010 AFC Championship, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis: Indianapolis Colts beat New York Jets, 30-17   
JANUARY 24 2010 NFC Championship, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans: New Orleans Saints beat Minnesota Vikings 31-28 (OT)   
JANUARY 24 2011 At least 35 died and 180 injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport.   
JANUARY 24 2013 17 people are killed and 34 are injured in a bus crash in Taperas, Bolivia   
JANUARY 24 2013 A Japanese Coast guard ship engages a Taiwanese activist ship in the Senkaku Islands dispute   
JANUARY 24 2013 Russian police kill 13 rebels in Vedeno District, Chechnya   
JANUARY 24 2016 TV drama "The X-Files" returns after 13 years, reuniting lead actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson and produced again by Chris Carter   
JANUARY 24 2016 AFC Championship, Mile High Stadium, Denver: Denver Broncos beat New England Patriots, 20-18   
JANUARY 24 2016 NFC Championship, Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, NC: Carolina Panthers beat Arizona Cardinals, 49-15 #this_day_in_history http://bit.ly/this-day-in-history-January