Daily Calendar for Saturday, January 24, 2026

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Sir Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister) – 1965
George Cukor (film director) – 1983
Vincente Minnelli (film director) – 1986
Thurgood Marshall (first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court) – 1993
Jay Monahan (legal analyst for NBC News) – 1998
Bob Russell (creator of the Miss America Pageant and Name That Tune) – 1998
Chris Penn (actor) – 2006

Gold nuggets discovered at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, triggered the California Gold Rush – 1848
“Typewriter copy ribbon” patented by Jacob L. Wortman – 1888
Patent 1,404,539 granted for the Eskimo Pie (now Edy’s Pie) – 1922
Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island, NY – 1925
Percy Spencer granted patent for microwave oven – 1950
Soviet satellite Cosmos 954 crashed in Canada’s Northwest Territories, leaking radioactive waste – 1978
An otter entertained crowds all winter at the mouth of the Ompompanoosuc River in Norwich, Vermont – 1981
Apple Computer, Inc. introduced the Macintosh personal computer – 1984
The Voyager 2 spacecraft sent back photographs from the planet Uranus – 1986
Rover Opportunity landed on Mars – 2004
A blizzard that took over New England with blinding snow and blustering wind kept the Cape Cod Times from publishing a print edition for the first time – 2005

The temperature in Browning, Montana, plunged 100 degrees in 24 hours, from 44F to -56F, establishing a U.S. record for a 24-hour temperature drop. – 1916
Fifteen degrees below zero F in Nashville, Tennessee – 1963
4 inches of snow fell near Lake Jocassee in South Carolina – 1991
North Myrtle Beach experienced a low temperature of 16 degrees F – 2003
Thirty-eight inches of snow on Cape Cod after a 2-day winter blizzard – 2005