Larry Nassar

2018

Larry Nassar, a former doctor for USA Gymnastics, is sentenced to prison for sexual assault

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Maria Tallchief

Maria Tallchief

1925 - 2013

Groundbreaking Native American ballerina known for her performances in "Firebird" and "Swan Lake."

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

1862 - 1937

Novelist who explored social class in "The Age of Innocence" and who became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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Neil Diamond

1941 -

Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter of "Sweet Caroline," "Coming to America" and "Cracklin' Rosie," who sold over 100 million records.

Maria Tallchief

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1922

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Inspired by a boy who came into his confectionery shop and couldn’t decide between chocolate and ice cream, Christian K. Nelson combines the two, receiving a patent for the Eskimo bar—originally marketed as "I-Scream" bars.

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1781

Light Horse and Swamp Fox raid Georgetown, South Carolina

On January 24, 1781, Patriot commanders Lieutenant Colonel Light Horse Henry Lee and Brigadier General Francis Swamp Fox Marion of the South Carolina militia combine forces and conduct a raid on Georgetown, South Carolina, which is defended by 200 British soldiers. Marion won fame and the Swamp Fox moniker for his ability to strike and […]

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1848

Gold discovered at Sutter’s Creek

A millwright discovers gold along the banks of Sutter’s Creek in California, forever changing the course of history in the American West. A tributary to the South Fork of the American River east of the Sacramento Valley and San Francisco, Sutter’s Creek was named for a Swiss immigrant who came to Mexican California in 1839. John […]

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Illustration depicting Sutter's Mill, where New Jersey prospector James Marshall discovered gold in 1848, sparking the California Gold Rush. (Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

1862

Author Edith Wharton is born

On January 24, 1862, Edith Wharton is born to an old and wealthy New York family. She grew up in an opulent world where pre-Civil War society tried to keep the nouveau riche at bay. Wharton, expected to become a typical wife, mother, and hostess, instead showed intellectual talent and began to write at an […]

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1908

Boy Scouts movement begins

On January 24, 1908, the Boy Scouts movement begins in England with the publication of the first installment of Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. The name Baden-Powell was already well known to many English boys, and thousands of them eagerly bought up the handbook. By the end of April, the serialization of Scouting for Boys […]

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1935

First canned beer goes on sale

Canned beer makes its debut on January 24, 1935. In partnership with the American Can Company, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger’s Finest Beer and Krueger’s Cream Ale to faithful Krueger drinkers in Richmond, Virginia. Ninety-one percent of the drinkers approved of the canned beer, driving Krueger to give the green […]

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1943

General Paulus to Hitler: Let us surrender!

German Gen. Friedrich Paulus, commander in chief of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, urgently requests permission from Adolf Hitler to surrender his position there, but Hitler refuses. The Battle of Stalingrad began in the summer of 1942, as German forces assaulted the city, a major industrial center and a prized strategic coup. But despite […]

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1956

Emmett Till murderers make magazine confession

On January 24, 1956, Look magazine publishes the confessions of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, two white men from Mississippi who were acquitted in the 1955 kidnapping and murder of Emmett Louis Till, an African American teenager from Chicago. In the Look article, titled “The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi,” the men detailed […]

1965

Winston Churchill dies

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the British leader who guided Great Britain and the Allies through the crisis of World War II, dies in London at the age of 90. Born at Blenheim Palace in 1874, Churchill joined the British Fourth Hussars upon his father’s death in 1895. During the next five years, he enjoyed […]

1972

Japanese soldier found hiding on Guam

On January 24, 1972, local farmers on Guam discover Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese sergeant who fought in World War II, still hiding in the jungle—26 years after the official end of the war. Japanese soldiers had been trained that death was preferred to the disgrace of being captured alive. Guam, a 200-square-mile island in the western […]

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2006

Walt Disney announces $7.4 billion purchase of Pixar

On January 24, 2006, Disney announces that it will purchase animation studio Pixar for $7.4 billion dollars. By the end of 2005, Pixar had become a giant in the world of movie animation, on the strength of its blockbuster hits Toy Story (1995), A Bug’s Life (1998), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003) and The […]

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2011

Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport is bombed by terrorists

On January 24, 2011, a bomb explodes in the international arrivals hall of Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport, killing 35 people and injuring 173 others. The Caucasus Emirate, a militant jihadist group based in Chechnya, claimed responsibility, adding to a string of terrorist attacks stemming from the conflict in Russia’s Caucasian territories. In the wake of […]

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