January 24 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for January 24
In the headlines today:

2007	Emiliano Mercado del Toro, the world's oldest person, dies at his home in Puerto Rico at age 115.
1993	Former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall dies in Bethesda, MD, at age 84.
1989	Serial killer Ted Bundy is put to death in Florida's electric chair.
1986	The NASA space probe Voyager Two passes within 50,679 miles of Uranus.
1985	Penny Harrington is sworn in as the first woman police chief of a major American city (Portland, Oregon).
1978	A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite disintegrates as it falls into the atmosphere, spreading radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada.
1965	British statesman Winston Churchill dies in London, at age 90.
1935	The first canned beer is offered for sale in Richmond, VA, by the Krueger Brewing Company.
1924	The Russian city of St. Petersburg is renamed Leningrad to honor revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin. It was later renamed back to St. Petersburg.
1908	Robert Baden-Powell organizes the first Boy Scout troop in England.
1888	Jacob L. Wortman of Philadelphia receives a US patent for his typewriter ribbon.
1848	James Marshall discovers a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California, triggering the San Francisco gold rush of '49.