January 24
41 | Shortly after declaring himself a god, Caligula is assassinated by two Praetorian tribunes. | |
1458 | Matthias Corvinus, the son of John Hunyadi, is elected king of Hungary. | |
1639 | Representatives from three Connecticut towns band together to write the Fundamental Orders, the first constitution in the New World. | |
1722 | Czar Peter the Great caps his reforms in Russia with the "Table of Rank" which decrees a commoner can climb on merit to the highest positions. | |
1848 | Gold is discovered by James Wilson Marshall at his partner Johann August Sutter's sawmill on the South Fork of the American River, near Coloma, California. | |
1903 | U.S. Secretary of State John Hay and British Ambassador Herbert create a joint commission to establish the Alaskan border. | |
1911 | U.S. Cavalry is sent to preserve the neutrality of the Rio Grande during the Mexican Civil War. | |
1915 | The German cruiser Blücher is sunk by a British squadron in the Battle of Dogger Bank. | |
1927 | British expeditionary force of 12,000 is sent to China to protect concessions at Shanghai. | |
1931 | The League of Nations rebukes Poland for the mistreatment of a German minority in Upper Silesia. | |
1945 | A German attempt to relieve the besieged city of Budapest is finally halted by the Soviets. | |
1946 | The UN establishes the International Atomic Energy Commission. | |
1951 | Indian leader Nehru demands that the UN name Peking as an aggressor in Korea. | |
1965 | Winston Churchill dies from a cerebral thrombosis at the age of 90. | |
1980 | In a rebuff to the Soviets, the U.S. announces intentions to sell arms to China. | |
1982 | A draft of Air Force history reports that the U.S. secretly sprayed herbicides on Laos during the Vietnam War. |
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