01-24-2005, 06:16 AM
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January 24th
41 ~ Death of Caligula, Emperor of Rome (AD 37-41) (assassinated by his own guards).
1776 ~ Birthday of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Poet, Composer & Painter
1848 ~ California gold rush: James W. Marshall found gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
1888 ~ Birthday of Ernst Heinkel, aircraft designer.
1908 ~ Robert Baden-Powell began the Boy Scout movement.
1962 ~ Brian Epstein signs to manage The Beatles.
1965 ~ Death of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the U.K.
1987 ~ In Lebanon, gunmen kidnaped Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh.
1993 ~ Death of Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court justice.
2003 ~ The U.S. Department of Homeland Security officially began operation.
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