On This Day:
Saturday January 24, 2015 This is the 24th day of the year, with 341 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: tittle It's called a "tittle." The "i" got it's dot sometime during the 13th century, during the period of copying of manuscripts. The "i" was made with one stoke and other letters were made with two and three strokes......the dot was used to distinguish the "i" from other letters. The dot is not a diacritical mark -- it does not change the way letter is pronounced. The "i" and the "j" were indistinguishable in usage until the 1600's, they used the same character, the single slash.... again the lower case was given the dot to distinguish it, and the upper case came to be invented with the invention of type.
Holidays Feast day of St. Francis of Sales, St. Babylas of Antioch, S. Felician of Foligno, and St. Macedonius the Barley-eater.
Bolivia: Alacitas Fair.
Events 1848 - James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California, a discovery that led to the gold rush of '49.
1908 - The first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
1922 - Christian K. Nelson of Iowa patented the Eskimo Pie.
1935 - Beer in cans was first sold, in Virginia, by the Kreuger Brewing Company.
1942 - A special court of inquiry into America's lack of preparedness for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor placed much of the blame on Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieutenant General Walter C. Short, the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army commanders.
1964 - The first "Sports Illustrated" swimsuit issue was published.
1978 - A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated, scattering radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada.
1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
2003 - The new U.S. Department of Homeland Security officially opened and its head, Tom Ridge, was sworn in.
2006 - Disney agrees to purchase Pixar for $7.4 billion.
Births 76 - Hadrian, Roman emperor.
1712 - Frederick the Great, King of Prussia.
1862 - Edith Wharton, American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.
1918 - Oral Roberts, American neo-Pentecostal televangelist.
1936 - Doug Kershaw, American musician.
1947 - Warren Zevon, American musician.
1949 - John Belushi, American actor, comedian and singer most notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Animal House, and The Blues Brothers.
1968 - Mary Lou Retton, Olympic gold-medal gymnast.
Deaths 1965 - Winston Churchill, English statesman and author, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during WWII.
1971 - Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
1975 - Larry Fine (born Louis Feinberg), American comedian and actor, probably best known as a member of the comedy act The Three Stooges.
1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology.
1993 - Thurgood Marshall, U.S. jurist and civil rights leader, first black member of the United States Supreme Court.
2006 - Chris Penn, American actor.
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