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