Events that happened on January 24 in the world

Big events

1076 - Gregory VII was deposed by Henry IV.

1118 - Gelasius II was appointed the 162nd Pope.

1458 - Matthias I Corvinus becomes King of Hungary.

1601 - Matteo Ricci came to Beijing, China to spread Christianity.

1627 - Tokugawa Senhime shaved her head and became a nun.

1679 - King Charles II of England dissolves Parliament.

1742 - Charles VII Elbert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.

1848 - California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall discovers gold nuggets near Sutter's Mill in Sacramento.

1859 - The principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia united to form Romania under the leadership of Alexander John Cuza.

1888 - Jacob L. Waterman patented typewriter ribbon.

1891 - John Ballance becomes Prime Minister of New Zealand.

1900 - Cixi appointed Pu Jun, the son of King Duan Wang Zaiyi, as the eldest brother (crown prince), and planned to depose Emperor Guangxu.

1900 - The South African Boer army was defeated in the Spion Highlands.

1915 - The British army sank the German battleship "Blucher".

1921 - The Allies held talks on Germany's war reparations issue.

1924 - Petersburg was renamed Leningrad.

1924--The preparations for the construction of Huangpu Military Academy began.

1936 - Ethiopian troops fight against Italy in Magari.

1938 - Han Fuju, Chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government, was executed.

1946 - The United Nations Atomic Energy Commission is created.

1953 - Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province was established.

1956 - my country awarded science prizes for the first time, and Qian Xuesen, Hua Luogeng, Wu Wenjun, Qian Weichang and others won the prizes.

1958 - British and American scientists completed nuclear fusion experiments.

1960 - The French in Algeria launched a riot against Algeria's independence.

1960 - The "Border Agreement between China and Myanmar" was signed.

1966 - An Indian flight bound for New York crashes in the Alps, killing 117 people.

1974——Jiang Qing and others held a mobilization meeting to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius without permission.

1978 - A Soviet satellite with a nuclear power plant crashed over Canada.

1980 - The U.S. Congress approved the Sino-U.S. Trade Agreement and granted China "most-favored-nation status."

1981 - Millions of people in Poland went on strike for a five-day working day.

1981 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurred in Daofu County, Sichuan.

1984 - Deng Xiaoping inspected Shenzhen and other special economic zones and wrote an inscription.

1984 - China's first successful development of short- and medium-range passenger aircraft, the Y-7 aircraft, was officially delivered to the civil aviation department for use. The Y-7 aircraft is produced by Xi'an Aircraft Manufacturing Company. It can carry 48 passengers, has a speed of 460 kilometers per hour, and a maximum range of 1,900 kilometers.

1984 - The United States approved the development of the first permanent manned space station plan.

1986 - The American Voyager 2 interstellar probe became the first spacecraft to fly close to Uranus. Through detection, it was found that Uranus has an atmosphere thousands of kilometers thick on the surface, and the surface temperature is below minus 180 degrees Celsius.

1987 - The "Customs Law of the People's Republic of China" was promulgated.

1987 - The National Economic Information Center was established.

1992 - China and Israel established diplomatic relations. Israel is located in the Palestinian region in western Asia, with its capital Jerusalem.

1994 - The National Propaganda and Ideological Work Conference was held.

1996 - Polish Prime Minister Josef Oleksi resigned after being accused of being a spy for Moscow.

2003 - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security officially operates.

2004 - Chinese scientists were the first to use urine to accurately diagnose bladder cancer. Passed the scientific and technological achievements appraisal jointly organized and hosted by the Ministry of Health and the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Health. This research has reached the international leading level.

2008 - Société Générale announced that the bank’s futures trader Jér?me Kevière had used bank funds to conduct illegal transactions without authorization over the past year, causing 49 losses to the bank. billion euros in losses.

2008 - The Iraqi flag removed the words "Allahu Akbar" written by former President Saddam Hussein and changed them to printed characters.

2008 - Kenyan President Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga held their first talks since the Kenyan riots at the Presidential Palace.

2008 - Italian Prime Minister Prodi submitted his resignation to President Napolitano because his government failed to win a vote of confidence in the Senate.

2008 - Relevant parties signed a ceasefire agreement, ending the armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kivu.

Birth

1712 - Birthday of King Friedrich II of Prussia (died in 1786).

1828 - Cohen, a German biologist and one of the founders of bacteriology, was born.

1862 - American female writer Edith Wharton was born (died in 1937).

1872 - British chemist Maurice William Travers was born.

1883 - Matsumura Kenzo, former adviser to the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, was born

1888 - Aircraft designer Ernst Heinkel was born (died in 1958 ).

1891 - German Field Marshal Walter Model was born.

1895 - Lyrical poet Eugen Roth was born (died in 1976).

1904 - Japanese politician and father of Junichiro Koizumi, Junya Koizumi, was born (died in 1969).

1905 - Chinese journalist, newspaper editor, and journalism educator Yun Yiqun was born (died in 1978).

1908 - Chinese economist Zhuo Jiong was born (died in 1987).

1930 - Chinese economist Wu Jinglian was born.

1934 - Chinese chemist You Xiaozeng was born

Died

756 - Feng Changqing, a famous general in the Tang Dynasty of China, passed away.

1366 - King Alfonso IV of Aragon dies.

1622 - The death of Oda Nagamasu, the younger brother of Oda Nobunaga, the shogun of Japan.

1632 - Japanese shogun Tokugawa Hidetada died.

1791 - French sculptor Falcone died (born in 1716).

1823——British medical scientist Jenner passed away.

1851——The death of Italian composer and conductor Gaspare Spontini (born in 1774).

1880 - Peking opera performing artist Cheng Changgeng passed away.

1965 - Former British Prime Minister and politician Winston Churchill passed away.

1985 - Xiong Yi, a famous soil scientist and the founder of soil colloid chemistry and soil mineralogy in my country, passed away.

1986 - Hyman, the famous American volleyball player, died suddenly on the court.

1999——Cheng Kansheng, a famous Chinese rice germplasm resource expert, passed away.