What to remember about January 24th…
- 1781 Patriot militia led by the Francis “Swamp Fox” Marion and “Light Horse” Henry Lee raid Georgetown, S.C. and capture British officers
- 1848 Gold is discovered in Sacramento Valley along Sutter’s Creek; California gold rush soon sparked
- 1908 Sir Robert Baden-Powell publishes 1st installment of Scouting for Boys; Scouting movement begins
- 1943 German General Friedrich von Paulus requests permission from Hitler to surrender his surrounded forces at Battle of Stalingrad
- 1961 B-52 bomber with its payload of Mark-39 nuclear bombs crashes near Goldsboro, North Carolina
- 1965 WWII British Prime Minister, historian, and soldier Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill dies in London (b. 1874)
- 1972 WWII Imperial Japanese Army sergeant is discovered hiding on Guam ; he has been hiding for 28 years
- 1980 Administration of President Carter announces sales of military equipment and technology to China
- 1989 Serial killer and rapist Theodore Robert “Ted” Bundy dies in electric chair in Florida (b. 1946)
