Historical Events and Current Affairs on January 24

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: Fran‡ois 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
1616: Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver
1634: Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor
1639: Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders
1644: Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win
1652: Duke of Orl‚ans joins Fronde rebels
1656: 1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
1659: Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe," premieres in Paris
1679: King Charles II disbands English parliament
1722: Czar Peter the Great begins civil system
1722: Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st US divinity professor (Harvard)
1742: German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor
1764: Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire
1839: Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society
1847: 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Col Price
1848: James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, Calif
1861: Arsenal at Augusta, Ga seized by Confederacy
1861: Federal troops from Ft Monroe are sent to Ft Pikens
1862: Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza
1874: Gen J van Swieten conquerors Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die
1874: Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St Petersburg
1875: Camille Saint-Sa‰ns' "Danse Macabre," premieres
1892: battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack Brit missionaries
1899: Belgium govt of Vandenpeereboom forms
1899: Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
1900: Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900: Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, forms in England
1901: 1st games played in baseball's American League
1901: Emily Hobhouse view lord Kitcheners concentration camp at Bloemfontein
1902: Denmark sells Virgin Islands to USA
1908: Gen Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts
1913: Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished
1914: Opera "Madeleine," premieres in NYC
1915: German-British sea battle at Doggersbank & Helgoland
1922: -54øF (-48øC), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record)
1922: Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)
1922: Lehman Caves National Monument established
1923: Aztec Ruins National Monument, NM established
1924: Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union
1924: Russian city of St Petersburg renamed Leningrad
1925: Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Is
1925: Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden
1930: J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ v England, Wellington
1933: No‰l Coward's "Design for Living," premieres in NYC
1935: 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co
1936: Benny Goodman & orch record "Stompin' at the Savoy" on Victor Records
1939: 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile
1939: Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler & George Sisler elected to Hall of Fame
1939: Spanish govt moves to Figueras
1941: British troops march into Abyssinia
1942: Musical "Star & Garter," premieres in NYC
1943: Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death
1943: Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau
1944: Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy
1945: Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg
1947: NFL adds 5th official (back judge) & allows sudden death in playoffs
1948: "Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 124 perfs
1948: Australia all out 674 v India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*)
1948: Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom & Democracy (VVD)
1950: Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history
1951: Dutch govt Drees-van Schaik resigns
1952: Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base
1954: BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter
1956: 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)
1958: After warming to 100,000,000ø, 2 light atoms are bashed together to
1958: create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion
1959: "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 38 perfs
1959: Dmitri Shostakovitch's comedy "Cheryomushk," premieres in Moscow
1959: WHCT TV channel 18 in Hartford, CT (IND) begins broadcasting
1960: Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle
1961: Edward Albee's "American Dream," premieres in NYC
1961: Lazard Brothers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68
1962: 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany
1962: Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles
1962: Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1963: Buddy Rogers & Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF
1963: wrestling champ & Thesz becomes NWA champ
1964: 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting
1964: Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking
1964: rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes
1966: WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968: #1889 Pakhmutova & #2245 Hekatostos
1969: Queen Juliana appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa
1969: Spanish Gen Franco announces state of emergency
1970: 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana
1971: NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-6
1972: WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
1973: Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1975: "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV
1975: Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England
1976: Cleve Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89)
1976: George Foreman KOs Ron Lyle in 5th round of a real slugfest
1977: 5 lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid
1978: Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036)
1979: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981: Kim Hughes scores 213 v India at Adelaide
1982: #3001 Michelangelo, #3104 Durer, #3125 Hay, #3131 Mason-Dixon
1982: #3209 Buchwald, #3236 Strand, #3749 & #8073
1982: Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB
1982: Superbowl XVI: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 26-21 in Pontiac Mich
1983: Hulk Hogan pins Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title
1984: Apple Computer Inc unveila its Macintosh personal computer
1985: 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched
1986: 43th Golden Globes: Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win
1986: NY Islander Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point
1986: South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president
1986: Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
1987: 61st Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76)
1988: 1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins
1988: 76th Australian Mens Tennis: M Wilander beats P Cash (63 67 36 61 86)
1988: 9th ACE Cable Awards
1988: Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1988: Cerebral Palsy telethon
1988: XXX actor John Holmes weds Laurie Rose
1989: 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
1990: Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
1991: "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre St Denis, Montreal
1993: 14th annual star-athon $24,000,000
1993: Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed
1993: Soyuz TM-16 launches
1994: Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)

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