History for January 24

History for January 24 - On-This-Day.com:
Frederick the Great (Prussia) 1712, Edith Wharton (Jones) 1862, Ernest Borgnine 1917 


Neil Diamond 1941, John Belushi 1949, Mary Lou Retton 1968 


1848 - James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California. The discovery led to the gold rush of '49.


1908 - In England, the first Boy Scout troop was organized by Robert Baden-Powell.


1922 - Christian K. Nelson patented the Eskimo Pie.


1924 - The Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad. The name has since been changed back to St. Petersburg.


1943 - U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.


1965 - Winston Churchill died at the age of 90.


1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws that denied welfare benefits to people who had resided in a state for less than a year.


1989 - Ted Bundy, the confessed serial killer, was put to death in Florida's electric chair for the 1978 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.