Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 24
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Henry VIII
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Peter I of Russia
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Vladimir Lenin
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James W. Marshall
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Bust of Caligula
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University of Calcutta shortly after its founding
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| 1438 – The Council of Basel suspended [[Pope Eugene IV|Pope Template:Nowrap]] and pronounced him deposed the following year, giving rise to a new schism by electing [[Antipope Felix V|Template:Nowrap of Savoy]] as an antipope. | needs more footnotes, neutrality issues |
| 1639 – The Fundamental Orders, the first written constitution in North American history, were adopted in Connecticut. | unreferenced section |
| 1891 – Prime minister John Ballance began his term with his Liberal Party, the first political party in power in New Zealand. | needs more footnotes; lead too short |
| 1900 – Second Boer War: Boer forces stopped a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop. | refimprove section |
| 1924 – Three days after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the City of Petrograd, founded by Peter the Great of Russia in 1703, was renamed Leningrad. | refimprove section; best moved to May 27 (date of founding) |
| 1961 – A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two Mark 39 nuclear weapons broke up in mid-air near Goldsboro, North Carolina; one bomb was recovered intact, the other disintegrated. | refimprove section |
| 1990 – Japan launched the Hiten spacecraft, the first lunar probe launched by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States. | "or the United States" portion is unsourced |
| 1993 – Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu was assassinated by a car bomb outside his home in Ankara. | improve references |
| 2009 – Klaus, the most damaging European storm since Lothar and Martin in Template:Nowrap, made landfall near Bordeaux, France. | refimprove section |
| 2011 – A North Caucasian jihadist carried out a suicide bombing at Moscow Domodedovo Airport, killing 37 people. | improve references |
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- AD 41 – Cassius Chaerea and disgruntled members of the Praetorian Guard murdered the Roman emperor Caligula, who was succeeded by his uncle Claudius.
- 771 – Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Yopaat dedicated a 65-ton stele, the largest stone known to be quarried by the Maya civilization, at his city of Quiriguá.
- 914 – The Fatimid Caliphate began their first invasion of Egypt, against the Abbasids, which eventually ended in failure.
- 1536 – King Henry VIII of England (pictured) suffered a serious accident while jousting, receiving injuries which may have caused his later obesity and erratic personality.
- 1857 – The University of Calcutta was established as the first modern university in the Indian subcontinent.
- 1913 – Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a [[Farman MF.7|Farman Template:Nowrap]] hydroplane.
- 1966 – Air India Flight 101, en route from Bombay to London, crashed into Mont Blanc in France, killing all 117 people on board.
- 1972 – Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was found in the jungles of Guam, where he had been [[Japanese holdout|hiding since the end of World Template:Nowrap]].
- 1978 – The Soviet nuclear-powered satellite [[Kosmos 954|Template:Nowrap]] burned up during atmospheric reentry, scattering radioactive debris across Canada's Northwest Territories.
- Born/died: | [[Pope Stephen IV|Pope Template:Nowrap]] |d|817| Richard de Bury |b|1287| George Rooke |d|1709| Charles James Fox |b|1749| Vasily Surikov |b|1848| Edith Wharton |b|1862| Charles Boardman Hawes |b|1889| Maximilian Bircher-Benner |d|1939| August Meyszner |d|1947| Mark Eaton |b|1957 | Mary Lou Retton |b|1968| Peter Settman |b|1969| Luis Suárez|b|1987| Elie Hobeika |d|2002| Rosemary Bryant Mariner |d|2019 |
Notes
- 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash appears on January 21, so 1961 crash should not appear in the same year.
January 24: Alasitas (La Paz, Bolivia); Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities (1859) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1458 – The Estates unanimously proclaimed 14-year-old Matthias Corvinus King of Hungary after being persuaded to do so by his uncle Michael Szilágyi.
- 1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill (reconstruction pictured) in Coloma, California, leading to the California gold rush.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launched Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong.
- 1977 – Spanish transition to democracy: Neo-fascists attacked an office in Madrid, killing five people and injuring four others.
- 1987 – About 20,000 protestors marched in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States.