Historical Events on January 24.

1.   Uttar Pradesh Day (Uttar Pradesh, India)

2.  1839, 24th Jan: Charles Darwin elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

3.  1848, 24th Jan: California Goldrush – A man named James Marshall found a large quantity of gold in a stream at Stutters Mill, California.

4.  1857, 24th Jan: The first South Asian University had established in Kolkata.

5.  1862, 24th Jan: Bucharest became the capital of Romania.

6.  1916, 24th Jan: Income tax invalidated by US Supreme Court for invading civil liberties.

7.  1939, 24th Jan: 30 thousand people died due to an earthquake in Chile.

8.  1942, 24th Jan: In World War II, Allies bombed Bangkok. It forced Thailand to wage war against England and the United States.

9.  1950, 24th Jan: Jan Gana Mana got the status of the national anthem of India.

10.  1952, 24th Jan: The first International Film Festival had held in Bombay.

11.  1966, 24th Jan: Air India’s Kanchanganga aircraft crashed on Mont Blanc in Europe’s Alps. Dr. Homi Bhabha, the architect of nuclear science in India, died in this accident.

12.  1976, 24th Jan: Burma Shell, a British oil company, was nationalized and renamed Bharat Refineries. On 1st August 1977, the company renamed Bharat Petroleum (BPCL).

13.  1984, 24th Jan: Sales of Apple Macintosh computers began.

14.  2000, 24th Jan: The Indian President approved the 79th amendment of the constitution to extend the reservation of Dalits for ten years in elections.

15.  2003, 24th Jan: Extradition treaty between India and France.

16.  2007, 24th Jan: Agreement between Russia and India to build a nuclear reactor.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on January 24.

1.   1712: Frederick the Great, the King of Prussia.

2.  1826: Gnanendramohan Tagore, the first Bengali, Indian or Asian to be called to the bar in England in 1862.

3.  1877: Pulin Behari Das, an Indian revolutionary and the founder-president of the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti.

4.  1924: Karpoori Thakur, an Indian politician from the Bihar state.

5.  1945: Subhash Ghai, an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter.

6.  1954: Anil Agarwal, an Indian business person, the founder, and Chairman of Vedanta Resources Limited.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on January 24.

1.   1965: Sir Winston Churchill, a British statesman, army officer and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 when he led the country to victory in the Second World War.

2.  1966: Homi Bhabha, an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics.

3.  1991: P. Padmarajan, an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, and author.

4.  2011: Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, an Indian vocalist from Karnataka, in the Hindustani classical tradition.