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This is a list of selected January 24 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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1438 – The Council of Basel suspended Pope Eugene IV and pronounced him deposed the following year, giving rise to a new schism by electing Amadeus VIII of Savoy as an antipope. needs more footnotes, neutrality issues
1639 – The Fundamental Orders, the first written constitution in North American history, were adopted in Connecticut. unreferenced section
1891 – Prime minister John Ballance began his term with his Liberal Party, the first political party in power in New Zealand. needs more footnotes; lead too short
1900Second Boer War: Boer forces stopped a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop. refimprove section
1924 – Three days after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the City of Petrograd, founded by Peter the Great of Russia in 1703, was renamed Leningrad. refimprove section; best moved to May 27 (date of founding)
1961 – A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two Mark 39 nuclear weapons broke up in mid-air near Goldsboro, North Carolina; one bomb was recovered intact, the other disintegrated. refimprove section
1990 – Japan launched the Hiten spacecraft, the first lunar probe launched by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States. "or the United States" portion is unsourced
1993 – Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu was assassinated by a car bomb outside his home in Ankara. improve references
2009Klaus, the most damaging European storm since Lothar and Martin in December 1999, made landfall near Bordeaux, France. refimprove section
2011 – A North Caucasian jihadist carried out a suicide bombing at Moscow Domodedovo Airport, killing 37 people. improve references

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January 24: Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities (1859)

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