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24 January, 2003
The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
24 January, 1996
Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow.
24 January, 1993
Turkish journalist and writer Ugur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara
24 January, 1986
Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 km (50,680 miles) of Uranus.
24 January, 1986
Wapping dispute: Newspaper workers in London launch ultimately unsuccessful strike against Rupert Murdochs News International.
24 January, 1984
The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
24 January, 1978
Soviet satellite Cosmos 954 burns up in Earths atmosphere, scattering debris over Canadas Northwest Territories.
24 January, 1978
Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.
24 January, 1977
Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
24 January, 1972
Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
24 January, 1966
An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117.
24 January, 1952
Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
24 January, 1943
World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
24 January, 1936
Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
24 January, 1935
The first cans of beer are sold in the US (Kruegers Finest Beer and Kruegers Cream Ale).
24 January, 1927
Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
24 January, 1924
Petrograd, formerly St. Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
24 January, 1918
The Gregorian calendar introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of Peoples Commissars effective from February 14(NS)
24 January, 1916
In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
24 January, 1907
Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scout movement.
24 January, 1887
Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians.
24 January, 1878
The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
24 January, 1859
Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler.
24 January, 1857
The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia.
24 January, 1848
California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutters Mill near Sacramento.
24 January, 1826
Mississippi College is founded in Clinton, becoming the first college in the state of Mississippi.
24 January, 1776
Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.
24 January, 1742
Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
24 January, 1679
King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.
24 January, 1438
The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
24 January, 41
Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Claudius succeeds his nephew.

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