TOP TEN LISTS
Today in History
Saturday, 24 January 2026
2003
The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
1996
Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow.
1993
Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
1986
Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 km (50,680 miles) of Uranus.
1984
The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
1978
Soviet satellite Cosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor onboard, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
1977
Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
1972
Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
1966
An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117.
1961
1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
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