THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013

Today is Thursday, January 24, the 24th day of 2013. There are 341 days left in the year.

1722 ― Czar Peter the Great begins civil system

1899 ― Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan

1913 ― Franz Kafka stops working on ``Amerika"; it will never be finished

1924 ― Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union

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

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

1958 ― After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, two light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in first man-made nuclear fusion

1962 ― Twenty-eight refugees escape from East to West Germany

1969 ― Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency

1984 ― Apple Computer Inc. unveils its Macintosh personal computer