Today is Saturday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2026. There are 341 days left in the year.In 1835, a major slave rebellion began in Bahia, Brazil, leading to the deaths of dozens of enslaved people in clashes with troops, police and armed civilians in the provincial capital of Salvador. The uprising was seen as influential in helping to bring about an end to slavery in the country decades later.<\/p>\n
In 1848, James W. Marshall found a gold nugget at Sutter\u2019s Mill in northern California, a discovery that sparked the California gold rush.<\/p>\n
In 1945, Associated Press war correspondent Joseph Morton was among a group of captives executed by German soldiers at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria.<\/p>\n
In 1965, Winston Churchill died in London at age 90.<\/p>\n
In 1978, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite, Kosmos 954, plunged through Earth\u2019s atmosphere and disintegrated, scattering radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada.<\/p>\n
In 1984, Apple Computer began selling its first Macintosh model, which boasted a built-in 9-inch monochrome display, a clock rate of 8 megahertz and 128k of RAM.<\/p>\n
In 1989, confessed serial killer Ted Bundy was executed in Florida\u2019s electric chair.<\/p>\n
In 2003, former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn as the first secretary of the new Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n
In 2011, a suicide bomber attacked Moscow\u2019s busiest airport, killing 37 people; Chechen separatists claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n
In 2013, President Barack Obama\u2019s Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the lifting of a ban on women serving in direct ground combat roles.<\/p>\n
In 2018, former sports doctor Larry Nassar, who had admitted to molesting some of the United States\u2019 top gymnasts for years under the guise of medical treatment, was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison.<\/p>\n
In 2023, a farmworker killed seven people in back-to-back shootings in a case of \u201cworkplace violence\u201d at two Northern California mushroom farms. It marked the state\u2019s third mass killing in just over a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Saturday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2026. There are 341 days left in the year.In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,418,1524,73362,9039,73361,8074],"class_list":{"0":"post-147712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-history","12":"tag-nation","13":"tag-on-this-date","14":"tag-today-in-history","15":"tag-todayinhistory","16":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}