Wednesday, January 24, 2018

History for January 24

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History for January 24 - On-This-Day.com
Frederick the Great (Prussia) 1712, Oral Roberts 1918, Neil Diamond 1941
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John Belushi 1949, Yakov Smirnoff 1951, Mary Lou Retton 1968
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1848 - James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California. The discovery led to the gold rush of '49.
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1908 - In England, the first Boy Scout troop was organized by Robert Baden-Powell.
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1922 - Christian K. Nelson patented the Eskimo Pie.
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1935 - Krueger Brewing Company placed the first canned beer on sale in Richmond, VA.
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1943 - U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.
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1965 - Winston Churchill died at the age of 90.
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1986 - The Voyager 2 space probe flew past Uranus. The probe came within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet of the solar system.
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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.
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