January 24, 41 – Roman Emperor Caligula was assassinated by his Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaimed Caligulas uncle Claudius as Emperor. 1458 – Matthias I Corvinus, son of John Hunyadi, became king of Hungary. 1679 – King Charles II of England dissolved the Cavalier Parliament. 1776 – Henry Knox arrived at Cambridge with the artillery from Fort Ticonderoga. 1835 – Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, staged a revolt, which was instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later. 1848 – James W. Marshall found gold at Sutters Mill near Sacramento. 1908 – The1st Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell. 1916 – In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declared the federal income tax constitutional. 1933 – The 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices. 1942 – The Allies bombarded Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom. 1946 – The United Nations General Assembly passed its 1st resolution to establish the UN Atomic Energy Commission. 1961 – A B-52 bomber carrying 2 H-bombs broke up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost. 1972 – Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi was found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. 1978 – Soviet satellite Cosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burned up in Earths atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canadas Northwest Territories. 1986 – Voyager 2 passed within 50,680 miles of Uranus. 1990 – Japan launched Hiten, the countrys 1st lunar probe, the 1st robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Unions Luna 24 in 1976, and the 1st lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the U.S. 2003 – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security officially began operation.
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