January 24th
Today in America's Present Past
1648 | Civil Rights: Lord Baltimore’s envoy Margaret Brent is removed from the Maryland Council after requesting a “vote.”
1656 | Jacob Lumbrozo, America’s first Jewish medical doctor, arrives in Maryland.
1722 | America’s first divinity professor appointed (Harvard) Edward Wigglesworth.
1733 | General Benjamin Lincoln was born.
1820 | General John Milton Thayer was born.
1829 | Composer William Mason was born.
1847 | Statehood: U.S. forces defeat 1,500 New Mexican Indians and Mexicans.
1848 | Gold was discovered in Sutter’s Mill, Coloma, California, by James Marshall.
1860 | Meteorologist James Pollard Espy died.
1862 | Novelist Edith Wharton is born.
1864 | General Stephen Gardner Champlin died.
1884 | Abolitionist Frederick Douglass wed Helen Pitts.
1885 | Abolitionist Martin Delany died.
1888 | Author Hedwig “Vicki” Baum was born.
1899 | Humphrey O’Sullivan patented rubber heels for boots and shoes.
1901 | Denmark agrees to sell the Danish West Indies to the U.S.
1905 | Inventor William Sellers died.
1915 | Painter Robert Motherwell was born.
1917 | Actor Ernest Borgnine was born.
1918 | Theologian Oral Roberts was born.
1922 | Iowan Christian Kent Nelson patents “Eskimo Pie.”
1930 | Civil Rights: First female U.S. Senator Rebecca Latimer Felton died.
1932 | Banker Paul Warburg died.
1935 | Krueger Brewing Company sells the world’s first canned beer.
1941 | Musician Neil Diamond was born.
1943 | Actress Sharon Tate was born.
1949 | Comedian John Belushi was born.
1961 | Inventor Alfred Carlton Gilbert died.
1964 | Painter Stuart Davis died.
1968 | Gymnast Mary Lou Retton was born.
1970 | Actor Matthew Lillard was born.
1970 | Poet Caresse Crosby died.
1986 | Author L. Ron Hubbard died.
1989 | Serial killer Ted Bundy executed.
1991 | Author Jack Schaefer died.
1993 | SCOTUS: Justice Thurgood Marshall died.
2006 | Disney Company acquires Pixar Animation.