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Events on January 24

• 1076 The Roman-German King Henry IV declares Pope Gregory VII deposed during the Diet of Worms as part of the Investiture Controversy, whereupon the latter excommunicates him three weeks later.
• 1607 After the construction of the Mannheim Rhine Fort and the Friedrichsburg Fortress, Elector Frederick IV of the Palatinate grants city privileges to the newly developed "Quadratstadt" of Mannheim, which is associated with them.
• 1742 Elector Charles I Albert of Bavaria is elected Charles VII as emperor in Frankfurt am Main after an almost two-year interregnum. He is the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire since 1438 who does not come from the House of Habsburg.
• 1848 A nugget found by James W. Marshall near Sutter’s Mill leads to a stampede of fortune seekers. This discovery triggers the California Gold Rush.
• 1935 Following a prior testing phase, the first canned beer, canned by the Gottfried Krueger Brewery Company, goes on sale in the United States.
• 1950 The Politburo of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany resolves to establish a Ministry for State Security in the GDR. On February 8, the GDR’s People’s Chamber unanimously confirms this decision.
• 1952 In Germany, the Law for the Protection of Working Mothers enters into force, which is intended to protect expectant and nursing mothers from unhealthy work.
• 1975 The jazz pianist Keith Jarrett improvises his now world-famous Cologne Concert live and under the most adverse circumstances at the Cologne Opera.
• 1984 The first Apple Macintosh, the Macintosh 128, is presented to the public.
• 2000 The German television news channel N24 of ProSiebenSat.1 Media begins broadcasting.
• 2006 The Walt Disney Company announces that it will acquire the Pixar Animation Studios for 7.4 billion US dollars.
• 2008 The French bank Société Générale announces that it has recorded a loss of 4.9 billion euros as a result of unauthorized futures transactions by the employee Jérôme Kerviel. This represents the largest loss ever published for a bank that was caused by a single trader.

Born on January 24

• 1850 Hermann Ebbinghaus, German psychologist
• 1880 Peter Wilhelm Millowitsch, German actor and theater director
• 1881 Elsa Wagner, German actress
• 1891 Walter Model, German field marshal
• 1940 Joachim Gauck, German politician and publicist
• 1941 Neil Diamond, American singer and songwriter
• 1961 Guido Buchwald, German football player and coach
• 1961 Christa Kinshofer, German ski racer
• 1961 Nastassja Kinski, German actress
• 1972 Muriel Baumeister, Austrian actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „24. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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