This Day in History
24 Jan 1534
Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy
24 Jan 1568
In Netherlands Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw
24 Jan 1616
Dutch mariner Jacob Le Maire discovers Le Maire Strait Tierra del Fuego
24 Jan 1634
Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor
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Walt Disney announces $7.4 billion purchase of Pixar
By the end of 2005 Pixar had become a giant in the world of movie animation and on this day in 2006 the company that brought the world the blockbuster hits T...
Aretha Franklin’s career is reborn
Respect Chain of Fools and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman are the passionate gospel-charged classics with which Aretha Franklin is most closely asso...
Japanese soldier found hiding on Guam
After 28 years of hiding in the jungles of Guam local farmers discover Shoichi Yokoi a Japanese sergeant who was unaware that World War II had ended.Guam a 2...
First canned beer goes on sale
Canned beer makes its debut on this day in 1935. In partnership with the American Can Company the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2000 cans of Kru...
Von Paulus to Hitler: Let us surrender!
On this day German Gen. Friedrich von Paulus commander in chief of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad urgently requests permission from Adolf Hitler to surren...
Truce is expected in Laos and Cambodia
National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger announces that a truce is expected in Laos and Cambodia. Kissinger had been meeting privately with Le Duc Tho and othe...
Operation Masher/White Wing/Thang Phong II launched
In the largest search-and-destroy operation to dateOperation MasherWhite WingThang Phong IIthe U.S. 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) South Vi...
Mike Bossy scores 50th goal in 50 NHL games
On January 24 1981 Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders scores his 50th goal in the first 50 games of the season becoming only the second player in National ...
Nixon honors Eugene Ormandy
On this day in 1970 President Richard Nixon travels to Philadelphia to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Eugene Ormandy the world-renowned conducto...
Gold discovered at Sutter’s Creek
A millwright named James Marshall discovers gold along the banks of Sutters Creek in California forever changing the course of history in the American ...
Edith Wharton is born
On this day in 1862 Edith Wharton is born to an old and wealthy New York family. She grew up in an opulent world where pre-Civil War society tried to keep the ...
Chile suffers killer quake
An 8.3-magnitude earthquake centered in south central Chile leaves 50000 people dead and 60000 injured on this day in 1939. The disaster came just 33 years af...
Emmett Till murderers make magazine confession
On January 24 1956 Look magazine publishes the confessions of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant two white men from Mississippi who were acquitted in the 1955 kidnapp...
Confederate Congress to resume prisoner exchanges
On this day in 1865 the Confederate Congress agrees to continue prisoner exchanges opening a process that had operated only sporadically for three years.In th...
U.S. announces military equipment sales to China
In an action obviously designed as another in a series of very strong reactions to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan U.S. officials announce that America is r...
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