On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.

In his letter mentioning Shakespeare on January 24, 1597/8, Sturley asked Quiney especially that `` theare might ( be ) bi Sir Ed. Grev. some meanes made to the Knightes of the Parliament for an ease and discharge of such taxes and subsedies wherewith our towne is like to be charged, and I assure u I am in great feare and doubte bi no meanes hable to paie.

Caligula, his wife Milonia Caesonia and their daughter Julia Drusilla were murdered on January 24, 41.

Alfonso IV, called the Kind ( also the Gentle or the Nice, ) ( 1299, Naples – 24 January 1336 ) was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona ( as Alfonso III ) from 1327 to his death.

Fairbanks receives an average 21 hours of daylight between May 10 and August 2 each summer, and an average of less than four hours of daylight between November 18 and January 24 each winter.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

The most rainfall in 24 hours was on January 4, 1982.

On January 24, 1776, Henry Knox arrived with artillery captured from Fort Ticonderoga, which enabled Washington to drive the British army out of Boston.

On 24 January 41, Caligula was assassinated in a broad-based conspiracy involving the Praetorian commander Cassius Chaerea and several senators.

On 24 January 2005 it was announced that Mandrakesoft had acquired Conectiva for 1. 79 million euro ( 2. 3 million U. S. dollars at the time ).

Caligula (; 31 August AD 12 – 24 January AD 41 ), also known as Gaius, was Roman Emperor from 37 AD to 41 AD.

On 24 January 41, Chaerea and other guardsmen accosted Caligula while he was addressing an acting troupe of young men during a series of games and dramatics held for the Divine Augustus.

Catherine Lucille Moore ( January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987 ) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore.

She was born on January 24, 1911 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Doud Dwight " Icky " Eisenhower was born September 24, 1917, and died of scarlet fever on January 2, 1921, at the age of three ; Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death.

Desmond John Morris FZS, born 24 January 1928 in Purton, north Wiltshire, is a British zoologist and ethologist.

On January 24, 1932, there was a major disturbance at the prison.

Hsieh and his cabinet resigned en masse on January 24 to make way for Su and his new cabinet.

Dean ( August 16, 1926 – February 24, 1997 ) and Florine " Kay " Plato ( December 27, 1938 – January 2, 1988 ) adopted the child in June 1965 and raised her in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County.

Jones married his second wife, Anita Pollinger, on 24 January 1981, and also had two daughters with her: Jessica Lillian ( born 4 September 1981 ) and Annabel Charlotte ( born 26 June 1988 ).

It was announced on 24 January 2006 that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao would visit Fiji that April to open the China-Pacific Islands Countries Economic Development & Cooperation Forum Ministerial Conference 2006 at Sofitel Fiji Resort in Nadi, a conference of economic and trade ministers from Pacific island countries.

* Ford Madox Brown: PreRaphaelite Pioneer Exhibition, Manchester Art Gallery, Saturday 24 September 2011-Sunday 29 January 2012

On 24 January 2008, Greece's premier Costas Karamanlis visited Turkey a full 48 years after the last Greek premier and uncle of his Constantine Karamanlis had visited the neighboring country.

George Dewey Cukor (; July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983 ) was an American film director.

Cukor died of a heart attack on January 24, 1983, and was interred in an unmarked grave at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California ( although the rush started in January ).

On 11 January 1848, at St John's Church in Shrewsbury, George married for the third time, to Ellen Gregory, another farmer's daughter originally from Bakewell in Derbyshire, who had been his housekeeper.

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay ( July 25, 1848 – January 12, 1881 ), Anglo-Indian writer, son of a Bengal chaplain, was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and Cambridge University.

He took his seat on December 5, 1847, and was elected to serve the remainder of his term in January 1848.

During this century, Nova Scotia was the first colony in British North America and in the British Empire to achieve responsible government in January – February 1848 and become self-governing through the efforts of Joseph Howe.

However, in 1848 the Earl of Elgin, the then Governor General, appointed a Cabinet nominated by the majority party of the Legislative Assembly, the Baldwin-Lafontaine coalition that had won elections in January.

The first instance of responsible government in the British Empire was achieved by the colony of Nova Scotia in January – February 1848 through the efforts of Joseph Howe.

* January 13 – Wyatt Earp, American gunfighter ( b. 1848 )

* January 13 – Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary ( b. 1848 )

* January 10 – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer ( d. 1848 )

* January 25 – Karoline Jagemann, German actor ( d. 1848 )

The discovery of gold in California in January 1848 set off the California Gold Rush, and the number of settlers going to California skyrocketed.

It was in here on January 28, 1848 that James Marshall met privately with Sutter in order to show Sutter the gold that Marshall had found during the construction of Sutter's sawmill along the American River only four days earlier.

The revolution in Palermo ( 12 January 1848 ).

From 1820 to 1848 all Sicily was shaken by upheavals, which culminated on January 12, 1848, with a popular insurrection, the first one in Europe that year, led by Giuseppe La Masa.

He achieved more recognition with his Snob Papers ( serialised 1846 / 7, published in book form in 1848 ), but the work that really established his fame was the novel Vanity Fair, which first appeared in serialised instalments beginning in January 1847.

Like many novels of the time, Vanity Fair was published as a serial before being sold in book form ; it was printed in 20 monthly parts between January 1847 and July 1848.

In January and February 1848, he delivered lectures on " The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government " explaining his tax resistance at the Concord Lyceum.

Another revolution erupted on 12 January 1848 and Ferdinand was also forced to grant a constitution on 10 February.

In January 1848, James Marshall discovered a small nugget of gold in the American River, sparking the California Gold Rush.

After working as a seaman, merchant, and journalist, Olmsted settled on a farm in January 1848 on the south shore of Staten Island which his father helped him acquire.

The first fatality directly attributed to chloroform anesthesia was recorded on 28 January 1848 after the death of Hannah Greener.

The California Gold Rush ( 1848 – 1855 ) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.