Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 24
This is a list of selected January 24 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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University of Calcutta shortly after its founding
Ineligible
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| 1438 – The Council of Basel suspended Pope Eugene IV and pronounced him deposed the following year, giving rise to a new schism by electing Amadeus VIII of Savoy as an antipope. | needs more footnotes |
| 1639 – The Fundamental Orders, the first written constitution in North American history, were adopted in Connecticut. | unreferenced section |
| 1857 – The University of Calcutta, the first modern university in the Indian subcontinent, was established. | was on DYK 2020-12-06 |
| 1891 – Prime minister John Ballance began his term with his Liberal Party, the first political party in power in New Zealand. | needs more footnotes; lead too short |
| 1900 – Second Boer War: Boer forces stopped a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop. | refimprove section |
| 1924 – Three days after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the City of Petrograd, founded by Peter the Great of Russia in 1703, was renamed Leningrad. | refimprove section; best moved to May 27 (date of founding) |
| 1961 – A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two Mark 39 nuclear weapons broke up in mid-air near Goldsboro, North Carolina; one bomb was recovered intact, the other disintegrated. | refimprove section |
| 1972 – Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. | refimprove section |
| 2009 – Klaus, the most damaging European storm since Lothar and Martin in December 1999, made landfall near Bordeaux, France. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 914 – The Fatimid Caliphate began their first invasion of Egypt, against the Abbasids, which eventually ended in failure.
- 1915 – First World War: British Grand Fleet ships intercepted and surprised a German High Seas Fleet squadron in the North Sea, sinking a German cruiser and damaging several other vessels.
- 1978 – The Soviet nuclear-powered satellite Kosmos 954 burned up during atmospheric reentry, scattering radioactive debris across Canada's Northwest Territories.
- 1989 – American serial killer Ted Bundy was executed via electric chair in Florida after confessing to the murders of 30 young women.
- 1990 – Japan launched the Hiten spacecraft, the first lunar probe launched by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States.
- 1993 – Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu was assassinated by a car bomb outside his home in Ankara.
- Born/died: | Pope Stephen IV |d|817| Richard de Bury |b|1287| George Rooke |d|1709| Signe Rink |b|1836| Charles Boardman Hawes |b|1889| Maximilian Bircher-Benner |d|1939| August Meyszner |d|1947| Mary Lou Retton |b|1968| Elie Hobeika |d|2002
- 1458 – The Estates unanimously proclaimed 14-year-old Matthias Corvinus King of Hungary after being persuaded to do so by his uncle Michael Szilágyi.
- 1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill (reconstruction pictured) in Coloma, California, leading to the California Gold Rush.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launched Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong.
- 1977 – During the Spanish transition to democracy, neo-fascists attacked an office in Madrid, killing five people and injuring four others.
- 2011 – A North Caucasian jihadist carried out a suicide bombing at Moscow Domodedovo Airport, killing 37 people.
- Charles James Fox (b. 1749)
- Vasily Surikov (b. 1848)
- Rosemary Bryant Mariner (d. 2019)