Both Elvis and
The Who made their first television appearances on this day. The first plane landed at Fantasy Island,
Legos were patented and some team called the Dallas Cowboys was announced as a
new franchise by the NFL. A sad event happened on this day, the Space Shuttle
Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Today in History - January 24
youtu.be/bFyWN7jJJ_Q
Year & Event
41 Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Claudius succeeds his nephew.
772 Stephen III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
817 St Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV
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
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 Orleans 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
1776 Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.
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
1857 The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia.
1859 Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler.
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
1862 Bucharest proclaimed capital of Romania.
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-Saëns' "Danse Macabre," premieres
1878 The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
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 -54°F (-48°C), 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
1927 Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
1930 J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ v England, Wellington
1930 Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century
1933 Noel 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
1936 Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
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 1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly NY Yanks
1952 Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base
1952 Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
1954 BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter
1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
1956 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)
1958 After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to 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
1962 Mickey Wright/Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1963 Buddy Rogers & Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ & Thesz becomes NWA champ
1964 CBS purchases 1964 & 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million
1964 Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking
1964 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes
1966 WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
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
1970 Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec)
1971 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-6
1972 WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
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
1977 Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
1978 31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo
1978 Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036)
1978 Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
1981 Kim Hughes scores 213 v India at Adelaide
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 Cricket's World Series Cup
1988 Cerebral Palsy telethon
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
1993 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
1993 Turkish journalist and writer Ugur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
1994 Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)
2003 The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
2009 Pope Benedict XVI rescinds the excommunications of four bishops consecrated without papal consent in 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
youtu.be/bFyWN7jJJ_Q
Year & Event
41 Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Claudius succeeds his nephew.
772 Stephen III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
817 St Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV
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
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 Orleans 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
1776 Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.
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
1857 The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia.
1859 Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler.
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
1862 Bucharest proclaimed capital of Romania.
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-Saëns' "Danse Macabre," premieres
1878 The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
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 -54°F (-48°C), 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
1927 Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
1930 J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ v England, Wellington
1930 Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century
1933 Noel 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
1936 Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
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 1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly NY Yanks
1952 Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base
1952 Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
1954 BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter
1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
1956 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)
1958 After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to 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
1962 Mickey Wright/Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1963 Buddy Rogers & Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ & Thesz becomes NWA champ
1964 CBS purchases 1964 & 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million
1964 Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking
1964 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes
1966 WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
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
1970 Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec)
1971 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-6
1972 WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
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
1977 Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
1978 31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo
1978 Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036)
1978 Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
1981 Kim Hughes scores 213 v India at Adelaide
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 Cricket's World Series Cup
1988 Cerebral Palsy telethon
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
1993 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
1993 Turkish journalist and writer Ugur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
1994 Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)
2003 The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
2009 Pope Benedict XVI rescinds the excommunications of four bishops consecrated without papal consent in 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
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