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  • 24th January, 1841
    Claudius is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, Caligula.
  • 24th January, 1848
    James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento, sparking the California Gold Rush.
  • 24th January, 1908
    The Boy Scouts movement begins in England with the publication of the first installment of Robert Baden-Powell's 'Scouting for Boys'.
  • 24th January, 1924
    Petrograd, formerly Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad in honor of Vladimir Lenin.
  • 24th January, 1935
    The first canned beer, "Krueger's Finest Beer," is sold by the Kruger Brewing Company in Richmond, Virginia.
  • 24th January, 1943
    Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude the Casablanca Conference during World War II.
  • 24th January, 1952
    Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
  • 24th January, 1961
    The Disney animated film "101 Dalmatians" is released in the United States.
  • 24th January, 1972
    Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese sergeant, is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
  • 24th January, 1984
    Apple Computer unveils the Macintosh, revolutionizing the personal computer industry.
  • 24th January, 1989
    Ted Bundy, American serial killer, is executed in Florida's electric chair.
  • 24th January, 1995
    The trial of O.J. Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman begins in Los Angeles, California.
  • 24th January, 2001
    Windows 2000 Professional is named "Product of the Year" by PC Magazine.
  • 24th January, 2003
    The Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation in the United States.
  • 24th January, 2006
    Disney announces it is buying Pixar for $7.4 billion in an all-stock deal.
  • 24th January, 2009
    British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport with no fatalities.
  • 24th January, 2013
    Apple announces that it has sold its 25 billionth song on iTunes.
  • 24th January, 2016
    The Denver Broncos defeat the New England Patriots to win the AFC Championship and advance to Super Bowl 50.
  • 24th January, 2018
    Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful rocket, conducts its first static fire test in Florida.
  • 24th January, 2020
    The Doomsday Clock is set to 100 seconds to midnight, the closest to apocalypse since its inception.

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