What are the important events that happened on January 24? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 24: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 24 is the 24th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 11, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,706,054,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘icositetragon’ day.
Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 17 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,051 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 24 Historical Events
- 1438 –The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
- 1742 –Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1942 –World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
- 1943 –World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
- 1947 –Greek banker Dimitrios Maximos becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1972 –Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
- 1978 –Soviet satellite Cosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor onboard, burns up in Earth’s atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada’s Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
- 1986 –Voyager 2 passes within 81500 km of Uranus.
- 1993 –Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
- 2001 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
Who were born on January 24?
- 1540 –Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (d. 1581)
- 1888 –Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960)
- 1895 –Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976)
- 1946 –Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor
- 1953 –Tim Stoddard, American baseball player
- 1963 –Martyn Grimley, English field hockey player
- 1979 –Leandro Desábato, Argentine footballer
- 1979 –Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer
- 1987 –Luis Suárez, Uruguayan footballer
- 1990 –Mao Abe, Japanese singer-songwriter
Who died on January 24?
- 1366 –Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
- 1473 –Conrad Paumann, German composer
- 1965 –Winston Churchill, soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
- 1992 –Ken Darby, American composer, arranger and conductor (b. 1909)
- 2004 –Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)
- 2007 –Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World’s oldest military veteran (b. 1891)
- 2007 –Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
- 2008 –Randy Salerno, co-anchor of Chicago’s CBS 2 News (b. 1963)
- 2009 –Kay Yow, North Carolina State Univ. women’s basketball head coach (b. 1942)
- 2011 –Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Musician, Bharat Ratna Laureate (b. 1922)
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