MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 2011

Today is Monday, January 24, the 24th day of 2011. There are 341 days left in the year.

1679 ― King Charles II disbands English parliament

1722 ― Czar Peter the Great begins civil system

1839 ― Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society

1899 ― Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan

1924 ― Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union

1924 ― Russian city of St. Petersburg renamed Leningrad

1943 ― Hitler orders Nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death

1943 ― Jewish patients, nurses, doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau

1962 ― Jackie Robinson is first Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1984 ― Apple Computer Inc. unveils its Macintosh personal computer