Volume 13 , Issue 4

This Day In History (January 24)

On this 24th day of January this is what you might have read in the headlines of the New York Times:

1848 - James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California, sparking the gold rush of '49.

1862 - Edith Wharton, the American novelist, was born. Following her death on Aug. 11, 1937, her obituary appeared in The Times.

1863 - Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Emancipation Proclamation.SEE Cartoon & Read news

1908 - The first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.

1924 - The Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad in honor of late revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin.

1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.

1965 - Winston Churchill died in London at age 90. READ Here

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

1986 - The Voyager 2 space probe swept past Uranus, coming within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet from the sun.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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