Today is Thursday, January 24, the 24nd day of 2019. There are 341 days left in the year.
1639 — Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders
1679 — King Charles II disbands English parliament
1722 — Czar Peter the Great of Russia begins civil system
1839 — Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society
1861 — Federal troops from Fort Monroe are sent to Fort Pikens
1862 — Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza
1874 — Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov" premieres in St. Petersburg
1899 — Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
1901 — First games played in baseball's American League
1902 — Denmark sells Virgin Islands to U.S.
1922 — Lehman Caves National Monument established
1924 — Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union
1924 — Russian city of St. Petersburg renamed Leningrad