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