1. In 41, Emperor Caligula of the Roman Empire died on January 24.

2. In 76, Emperor Hadrian of Rome was born on January 24.

3. In 1076, Emperor Henry IV of Rome was excommunicated by the Pope on January 24, triggering a church-state conflict.

4. In 1458, Matthias I Corvinus became King of Hungary on January 24.

5. In 1601, Matteo Ricci arrived in Beijing, China to spread Christianity on January 24.

6. In 1622, Oda Nagamasu in the Sengoku period of Japan died on January 24.

7. In 1627, Tokugawa Chiyohime became a nun on January 24.

8. In 1632, Tokugawa Hidetada, the shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, died on January 24.

9. In 1679, King Charles II of England dissolved Parliament on January 24.

10. In 1712, Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, was born on January 24.

11. In 1742, Charles VII Albert became Holy Roman Emperor on January 24.

12. In 1823, British medical scientist Edward Jenner died on January 24.

13. In 1828, German biologist and one of the founders of bacteriology, Ferdinand Cohn, was born on January 24.

14. In 1848, James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget near Sutter's Mill in Sacramento on January 24.

15. In 1859, the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia united to become Romania on January 24.

16. In 1862, American female writer Edith Wharton was born on January 24.

17. In 1872, British chemist Morris William Travers was born on January 24.

18. In 1888, Jacob L. Waterman received a patent for the typewriter ribbon on January 24.

19. In 1891, John Ballance became Prime Minister of New Zealand on January 24.

20. In 1891, German Field Marshal Walter Model was born on January 24.

21. In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion leader Cixi plotted to depose Emperor Guangxu on January 24.

22. In 1900, the Boer forces in South Africa were defeated at Spion Kop on January 24.

23. In 1904, Koizumi Junya, the father of Junichiro Koizumi, was born on January 24.

24. In 1915, the British sank the German warship "Blücher" on January 24.

25. In 1921, the Allied Powers held talks on Germany's war reparations on January 24.

26. In 1924, Petrograd was renamed Leningrad on January 24.

27. In 1924, the Whampoa Military Academy began to be established on January 24.

28. In 1930, Wu Jinglian, an outstanding contemporary Chinese economist, was born on January 24.

29. In 1936, the Ethiopian army fought against Italy in Magari on January 24.

30. In 1942, a special court of inquiry into America's lack of preparedness for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor placed much of the blame on Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieutenant General Walter C. Short on January 24.

31. In 1943, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco on January 24.

32. In 1946, the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission was established on January 24.

33. In 1953, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province was established on January 24.

34. In 1956, China awarded scientific prizes for the first time on January 24.

35. In 1958, British and American scientists completed a nuclear fusion experiment on January 24.

36. In 1960, the French in Algeria launched a riot against Algerian independence on January 24.

37. In 1963, Japanese director Shunji Iwai was born in Miyagi Prefecture on January 24.

38. In 1965, Winston Churchill died in London on January 24.

39. In 1966, an Air India flight bound for New York crashed in the Alps on January 24, killing 117 people.

40. In 1972, the Supreme Court struck down laws that denied welfare benefits to people who had resided in a state for less than a year on January 24.

41. In 1978, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated on January 24.

42. In 1981, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurred in Daoxue County, Sichuan Province on January 24.

43. In 1984, Deng Xiaoping inspected the three special economic zones of Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Xiamen on January 24.

44. In 1984, the Y-7 aircraft, China's first domestically developed medium-short range passenger aircraft, was officially delivered to the civil aviation department for use on January 24.

45. In 1984, the first Macintosh computer went on sale on January 24.

46. In 1986, American volleyball player Flo Hyman died of a heart attack on the court on January 24.

47. In 1989, confessed serial killer Theodore Bundy was put to death in Florida's electric chair on January 24.

48. In 1992, China established diplomatic relations with Israel on January 24.

49. In 1993, retired Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall died in Bethesda, Maryland on January 24.

50. In 2014, the China Theatre was completed on January 24.