24th January |
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| 1076 Synod of Worms: German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII | ||
| 1118 Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II | ||
| 1328 King Edward III of England marries Philippa of Henegouwen | ||
| 1458 Matthias I Corvinus chosen king of Hungary | ||
| 1534 Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy | ||
| 1556 Heavy earthquake strikes Shaaxi China, kills 830,000 | ||
| 1568 Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire | ||
| 1568 In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw | ||
| 1613 Amsterdams merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized | ||
| 1634 Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor | ||
| 1644 Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win | ||
| 1652 Duke of Orl‚ans joins Fronde rebels | ||
| 1679 King Charles II disbands English parliament | ||
| 1712 Frederick II, (the Great), king of Prussia (1740-86) was born | ||
| 1722 Czar Peter the Great begins civil system | ||
| 1742 German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor | ||
| 1746 Gustav III, king during Swedish Enlightenment (1771-92) was born | ||
| 1839 Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society | ||
| 1848 gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in Northern California, leading to an historic gold rush a year later. | ||
| 1874 Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St Petersburg | ||
| 1880 Elisabeth Achelis, creator (World Calendar) was born | ||
| 1899 Belgium govt of Vandenpeereboom forms | ||
| 1908 Englishman Robert Baden-Powell organized the first Boy Scout troop | ||
| 1915 German-British sea battle at Doggersbank & Helgoland | ||
| 1922 Lehman Caves National Monument established | ||
| 1924 Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union | ||
| 1924 The Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad in honor of leader Vladimir Lenin. | ||
| 1935 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co | ||
| 1939 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile | ||
| 1939 Spanish govt moves to Figueras | ||
| 1941 British troops march into Abyssinia | ||
| 1943 Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death | ||
| 1944 Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy | ||
| 1945 Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg | ||
| 1960 Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle | ||
| 1962 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany | ||
| 1962 Music shop operator Brian Epstein signed music group The Beatles to a contract in Liverpool, England. | ||
| 1964 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting | ||
| 1965 Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill died at age 90 in London, England. | ||
| 1969 Queen Juliana appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa | ||
| 1975 Larry Fine of "The Three Stooges" fame died at age 72 in California. | ||
| 1983 Academy Award-winning director George Cukor died at age 83 in California. | ||
| 1984 Apple Computer Inc unveila its Macintosh personal computer | ||
| 1990 Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon | ||
| 1993 Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed | ||
| 1993 Soyuz TM-16 launches | ||