January 24......

January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 341 (342 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 41 - Mentally unbalanced Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity {he screwed and/or killed everyone in sight} and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Claudius succeeds his nephew.

● 661 - Ali ibn Abu Talib, kalief of Islam (656-61), murdered.

● 772 - Stephen III ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 817 - Stephen IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 817 – St. Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV

● 1076 - Synod of Worms German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII

● 1118 - Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II

● 1328 - King Edward III of England marries Philippa of Henegouwen

● 1438 - The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.

● 1458 - Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.

● 1534 - François I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy

● 1568 - In the Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw

● 1568 - Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire

● 1613 - Amsterdam merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized

● 1616 - Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver

● 1624 - Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.

● 1634 - Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor

● 1639 - Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders

● 1644 - Battle at Nantwich Cheshire Parliamentary armies win

● 1652 - Duke of Orléans joins Fronde rebels

● 1656 - 1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland

● 1679 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.

● 1722 - In Cambridge, Mass., Edward Wigglesworth was named to fill the newly created Thomas Hollis chair at Harvard College. Mr. Wigglesworth thereby became the first divinity professor commissioned in the American colonies.

● 1722 - Czar Peter the Great begins civil system

● 1738 - Four months before his celebrated Christian conversion, Anglican missionary John Wesley wrote in his journal: 'I went to America to convert the Indians. But oh! who shall convert me? I have a fair summer religion... But let death look me in the face, and my spirit is troubled.'

● 1742 - German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor

● 1764 - Governor Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire

● 1776 – Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.

● 1814 - Salvadorans unsuccessfully rise up against Spanish rule.

● 1818 - Birth of Anglican clergyman John Mason Neale, who was one of the first to translate ancient Greek and Latin hymns into English. Neale thus rendered the hymns known today as "All Glory, Laud, and Honor," "Good Christian Men, Rejoice" and "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel."

● 1826 - In the first of a series of removal treaties, the Creek agree to cede their land in Georgia and move west.

● 1826 - Mississippi College is founded in Clinton, becoming the first college in the state of Mississippi.

● 1839 - Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society

● 1847 - 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Colonel Price

● 1848 - California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento at Sutter's Creek, California. By the end of the next year, 80,000 prospectors had emigrated.

● 1857 - The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia.

● 1861 - Arsenal at Augusta GA seized by Confederacy

● 1861 - Federal troops from Fort Monroe are sent to Fort Pikens

● 1862 - Edith Wharton , the American novelist , was born.

● 1862 - Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza

● 1869 - In Madrid, Spain, Giuseppe Fanelli (sent by Bakunin) gathers the first Spanish group to join the First International and sows the seeds of anarchism among the peasants and workers, with lasting effect for over the next century.

● 1874 - General J van Swieten conquers Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die

● 1878 - The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.

● 1885 - Martin Robinson Delany, American physician, editor, Pan-Africanist, dies.

● 1888 - The typewriter ribbon was patented by Jacob L. Wortman.

● 1890 - Birth of Jeanne Humbert. Pacifist, anarchist militant.

● 1892 - Battle at Mengo, Uganda; French missionaries attack British missionaries.

● 1899 - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan

● 1899 - Belgium government of Vandenpeereboom forms

● 1900 - Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)

● 1901 - Emily Hobhouse views Lord Kitchener's concentration camp at Bloemfontein

● 1902 - Denmark sells Virgin Islands to USA

● 1908 - General Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.

● 1911 - Shusui Denjiro Kotoku (1871-1911) and 11 other anarchists hanged for plot on Japanese emperor's life. They were among 25 anarchists and trade union organizers arrested five days previous for the alleged plot. Journalist, writer, one of the most outstanding figures of Japanese anarchism. Among the hanged is his partner Yugetsu Sugo Kanno.

● 1915 - German-British sea battle at Doggersbank & Helgoland

● 1916 - Conscription was introduced in Britain.

● 1916 - In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.

● 1918 - A decree of the Council of People's Commissars, introducing the Gregorian calendar in Russia since February 1, issued.

● 1921 - Death of Cap'n Streeter, Chicago. His scow, the "Reutan," ran aground on a sandbar in Lake Michigan on the Chicago waterfront. The wreck caused the sandbar to grow, marshland filled it in, and Streeter proclaimed it a free district open to the poor, homeless, tramps, etc. He successfully defended his territory against Chicago cops and developers until his death.

● 1922 - -54ºF (-48ºC), Danbury WI (state record)

● 1922 - Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)

● 1922 - Lehman Caves National Monument established

● 1923 - Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established

● 1924 - Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union

● 1924 - The Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad. The name has since been changed back to St. Petersburg.

● 1925 - Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island

● 1925 - Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden

● 1927 - Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.

● 1936 - Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France

● 1936 - Sheriff shoots Ozie Powell, a "Scottsboro boy," the day after he is sentenced to 75 years. Powell was one of several blacks falsely accused of the 1933 rape of a white woman in a heavily publicized series of trials that over three years unleashed a wave of anti-black terror in the area. Charges are dropped against five remaining defendants in 1937.

● 1939 - 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile

● 1939 - Spanish government moves to Figueras

● 1941 - British troops march into Abyssinia

● 1942 - U.S. submarine S-26 sinks after colliding with another Navy ship off the coast of Panama. Thirty-two die.

● 1942 - Peace Pledge Union launches Food Relief Campaign for occupied Europe.

● 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.

● 1943 - Hitler orders Nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death

● 1943 - Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau

● 1944 - Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy

● 1945 - Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg

● 1948 - Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom & Democracy (VVD)

● 1951 - Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns

● 1952 - Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.

● 1952 - End of Empire Zinc Strike, Silver City, New Mexico.

● 1952 - Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base

● 1955 - Ira Hamilton Hayes, a Native American (Pima) who was one of six U.S. Marines to raise the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima, dies of exposure.

● 1956 - Plans unveiled for homes in Barbican; Plans to build a "new town" in the Barbican area of London left devastated by the war are being considered at a public inquiry.

● 1956 - 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)

● 1958 - After warming to 100,000,000º, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion

● 1960 - Algeria uprises against French President De Gaulle

● 1961 - Lazard Brithers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68

● 1961 - B-52 carrying nuclear weapons accident, 24-megaton bomb dropped near Goldsboro, North Carolina, before crashing. Five of the six safety mechanism to prevent it from exploding are triggered.

● 1961 - End of the road for Monroe and Miller; Hollywood screen star Marilyn Monroe divorces her husband of five years, playwright Arthur Miller.

● 1962 - U.S. Navy confirms plans to build Polaris submarine base at Bangor, Washington.

● 1962 - 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany

● 1964 - 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes

● 1965 - Winston Churchill dies; Sir Winston Churchill has died at the age of 90 with his wife Lady Clementine Churchill and other members of the family at his bedside.

● 1966 - An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117.

● 1969 - LSE closes over student clashes; Students protesting at the installation of steel security gates at the London School of Economics go on the rampage, with crowbars, pickaxes and sledgehammers.

● 1969 - Queen Juliana appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa

● 1969 - Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency

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

● 1972 - Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been in hiding since 1944, when U.S. forces liberated the island during World War II.

● 1974 - White House plumber Egil Krogh sentenced for burglarizing office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.

● 1975 - Rev. F. Donald Coggan, 66, was consecrated the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of Anglicanism). In the audience was Johannes Cardinal Willebrands the first Vatican representative to attend this Anglican ceremony since the time of the Reformation.

● 1975 - A group identifying themselves as members of FALN (a Puerto Rican nationalist group) explode a bomb at Fraunces Tavern, in New York City's financial district, killing four and injuring 53.

● 1975 - Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England

● 1977 - Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy.

● 1978 - A Soviet radar satellite equipped with a nuclear reactor crashes in Canada's Northwest Territories and spreads radioactive debris across 61,000 square miles, including snow-covered Great Slave Lake. Some of the debris is so radioactive that clean-up workers will have to use long tongs from behind a 1,600-pound lead shield -- in 35 mph winds and sub-zero temperatures.

● 1978 - Robert Proix dies. Anarchist, then a pacifist socialist.

● 1978 - Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (#12036)

● 1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.

● 1985 - Penny Harrington became the first woman police chief of a major city. She assumed the duties as head of the Portland, Oregon, force of 940 officers and staff.

● 1985 - 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched

● 1986 - Leon Brittan quits over Westland; Trade and Industry Secretary Leon Brittan becomes the second cabinet minister to resign over the Westland affair.

● 1986 - Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 km (50,680 miles) of Uranus.

● 1986 - Wapping dispute. Newspaper workers in London launch ultimately unsuccessful strike against Rupert Murdoch's News International.

● 1986 - South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president

● 1987 - In Lebanon, gunmen kidnapped educators Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh. They were all later released.

● 1989 - The Rev. Barbara C. Harris, 55, of Boston, was confirmed as the first female bishop in the 450-year history of the Anglican Church.

● 1989 - First reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex.

● 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.

● 1990 - Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon

● 1993 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall dies, Bethesda. Maryland at age 84.

● 1993 - Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara

● 1993 - Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed

● 1993 - Soyuz TM-16 launches

● 1994 - Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)

● 1995 - The prosecution gave its opening statement at the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

● 1996 - Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges he spied for Moscow.

● 2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Missouri law that limited the contributions that individuals could donate to a candidate during a single election.

● 2001 - Mandelson resigns - again; Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson resigns from the Cabinet over a passports-for-cash scandal.

● 2001 - In Colorado Springs, CO, Patrick Murphy Jr. and Donald Newbury were taken into custody after a 5-minute phone interview was granted with a TV station. They were the remaining fugitives of the "Texas 7."

● 2002 - The U.S. Congress began a hearing on the collapse of Enron Corp.

● 2002 - John Walker Lindh appeared in court for the first time concerning the charges that he conspired to kill Americans abroad and aided terrorist groups. Lindh had been taken into custody by U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.

● 2003 - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security began operations under Tom "Color Code" Ridge.

● 2004 - NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars three weeks after its identical twin, Spirit.

● 2006 - Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito won a 10-8 party-line approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

● 2006 - Disney agrees to purchase Pixar in an all-cash deal, making Steve Jobs the largest shareholder in Disney.

BIRTHS

● 76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)

● 1287 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop (d. 1345)

● 1444 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)

● 1540 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (d. 1581)

● 1638 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet (d. 1706)

● 1670 - William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)

● 1674 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735)

● 1679 - Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754)

● 1705 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)

● 1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)

● 1724 - Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)

● 1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)

● 1752 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)

● 1754 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820)

● 1763 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (d. 1831)

● 1776 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (d. 1822)

● 1811 - Henry Barnard, American education commissioner (d. 1900)

● 1820 - Henry Jarvis Raymond, American journalist/politician (d. 1869)

● 1848 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)

● 1862 - Edith Wharton, American writer (d. 1937)

● 1864 - Marguerite Durand, French feminist leader (d. 1936)

● 1872 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)

● 1882 - Harold Babcock, American astronomer (d. 1968)

● 1888 - Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960)

● 1888 - Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958)

● 1891 - Walter Model, German field marshal (d. 1945)

● 1895 - Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976)

● 1898 - Cliff Heathcote, baseball player (d. 1939)

● 1901 – Cassandre, French graphic artist (d. 1968)

● 1902 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (d. 1965)

● 1905 - J. Howard Marshall, American billionaire (d. 1995)

● 1907 - Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician (d. 1999)

● 1909 - Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (d. 2005)

● 1909 - Ann Todd, English actress (d. 1993)

● 1913 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer

● 1915 - Mark Goodson, American radio/TV producer (d. 1992)

● 1915 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)

● 1916 - Jack Brickhouse, American sports broadcaster (d. 1998)

● 1917 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor

● 1918 - Oral Roberts, American evangelist

● 1919 - Coleman Francis, American film director

● 1922 - Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)

● 1925 - Maria Tallchief, American ballerina

● 1927 - Marvin Kaplan, Actor

● 1928 - Desmond Morris, British anthropologist

● 1928 - Michel Serrault, French actor

● 1934 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet (d. 1976)

● 1936 - Doug Kershaw, American musician

● 1939 - Ray Stevens, American musician

● 1941 - Neil Diamond, American singer

● 1941 - Aaron Neville, American singer

● 1943 - Sharon Tate, American actress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)

● 1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)

● 1946 - Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor

● 1947 - Warren Zevon, American musician (d. 2003)

● 1949 - John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)

● 1950 - Gerald Brisco, American wrestler

● 1950 - Benjamin Urrutia, American scholar

● 1950 - Daniel Auteuil, French actor

● 1950 - Becky Hobbs, Country singer-songwriter

● 1951 - Yakov Smirnoff, Russian comedian

● 1956 - Hanne Krogh, Norwegian singer (Bobbysocks)

● 1957 - Adrian Edmondson, British comedian

● 1958 - Neil Allen, American baseball player

● 1958 - Jools Holland, British musician (Squeeze)

● 1959 - Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress

● 1959 - Vic Reeves, English comedian

● 1961 - Vince Russo, American writer

● 1963 - Martyn Grimley, British hockey player

● 1963 - Keech Rainwater, Country musician (Lonestar)

● 1963 - Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer

● 1965 - Mike Awesome, American wrestler

● 1966 - Jimeoin, Northern Irish comedian

● 1967 - John Myung, American musician (Dream Theater)

● 1967 - Phil LaMarr, American voice actor

● 1968 - Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast

● 1970 - Matthew Lillard, American actor

● 1970 - Sleepy Brown, R&B singer (Society of Soul)

● 1971 - Merrilee McCommas, Actress

● 1971 - Cory Bailey, American baseball player

● 1974 - Shii Ann Huang, American game show contestant

● 1975 - Rónald Gómez, Costa Rican footballer

● 1976 - Shae-Lynn Bourne, Canadian ice dancer with Victor Kraatz

● 1979 - Tatyana Ali, American actress

● 1980 - Nicole Marie Lenz, American actress

● 1981 - Travis Hanson, American baseball player

● 1982 - Jan Fila, Czech composer

● 1983 - Scott Speed, American racecar driver

● 1984 - Scott Kazmir, American baseball player

● 1986 - Mischa Barton, English-born American actress (''The O.C.'')

● 1986 - Ricky Ullman, American actor

● 1989 - Calvin Goldspink, English singer (S Club 8)

DEATHS

● 41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (b. 12)

● 772 - Pope Stephen III (b. 720)

● 1125 - David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)

● 1366 - Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)

● 1376 - Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader

● 1473 - Conrad Paumann, German composer

● 1595 - Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)

● 1626 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580)

● 1639 - Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician (b. 1596)

● 1666 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588)

● 1709 - George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)

● 1769 - François de Chevert, French general (b. 1695)

● 1856 - Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)

● 1877 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)

● 1882 - Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)

● 1883 - Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)

● 1895 - Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)

● 1911 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)

● 1920 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)

● 1924 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)

● 1924 - Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and father of the revolution

● 1932 - Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)

● 1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. 1867)

● 1943 - John Burns, English politician (b. 1858)

● 1955 - Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)

● 1960 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)

● 1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)

● 1962 - Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (b. 1877)

● 1965 - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1874)

● 1966 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909)

● 1970 - Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)

● 1971 - Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)

● 1973 - J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1897)

● 1975 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)

● 1978 - Herta Oberheuser, Nazi doctor (b. 1911)

● 1983 - George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)

● 1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)

● 1986 - Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (b. 1954)

● 1986 - Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)

● 1989 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)

● 1989 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (b. 1937)

● 1990 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)

● 1991 - John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)

● 1992 - Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (b. 1950)

● 1993 - Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908)

● 1998 - Walter D. Edmonds, American author (b. 1903)

● 2000 - Bobby Duncum, Jr., wrestler (b. 1965)

● 2002 - Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (b. 1934)

● 2003 - Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921)

● 2004 - Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)

● 2005 - June Bronhill, Australian singer (b. 1929)

● 2005 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1933)

● 2005 - Chalkie White, English rugby coach (b. 1929)

● 2006 - Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Our Lady of Peace
● St. Artemius
● St. Babylas
● St. Bertrand
● St. Cadoc
● St. Exuperantius
● St. Francis de Sales, bishop/doctor
● St. Guasacht
● Bl. John Grove
● St. Macedonius
● St. Mardonius
● Sts. Thyrsus & Projectus
● St. Zama
● Bl. William Ireland

● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. Timothy, bishop/martyr (now 1/26)

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 12 (Civil Date: January 24)
● Martyr Tatiana of Rome.
● St. Sabbas I, Archbishop of Serbia.
● Martyr Mertius of Mauretania.
● Martyr Peter Apselamus of Palestine.
● St. Eupraxia of Tabenna in Egypt.
● Virgin Martyr Euthasia.
● St. Martinian of Byelozersk, abbot.
● Blessed Galacteon, disciple of St. Martinian.

● Greek Calendar:
● Eight Martyrs of Nicea.
● St. Elias the wonderworker, of the Paradise.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, "The Milk-giver".
● Archimandrite Theodosius of Tisman and Sophroniev Monasteries, fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1802).

● Roman Empire - first day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra

● Aymara Indians, Bolivia : Alacitis Fair

● Romania - the Union Day or Ziua Unirii


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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