Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 24, 2021

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 * 914 – The Fatimid Caliphate began their first invasion of Egypt, against the Abbasids, which eventually ended in failure.
 * 1915 – First World War: British Grand Fleet ships intercepted and surprised a German High Seas Fleet squadron in the North Sea, sinking a German cruiser and damaging several other vessels.
 * 1978 – The Soviet nuclear-powered satellite Kosmos 954 burned up during atmospheric reentry, scattering radioactive debris across Canada's Northwest Territories.
 * 1989 – American serial killer Ted Bundy was executed via electric chair in Florida after confessing to the murders of 30 young women.
 * 1990 – Japan launched the Hiten spacecraft, the first lunar probe launched by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States.
 * 1993 – Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu was assassinated by a car bomb outside his home in Ankara.
 * Born/died: | Pope Stephen IV |d|817| Richard de Bury |b|1287| George Rooke |d|1709| Signe Rink |b|1836| Charles Boardman Hawes |b|1889| Maximilian Bircher-Benner |d|1939| August Meyszner |d|1947| Mary Lou Retton |b|1968| Elie Hobeika |d|2002

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 * 1458 – The Estates unanimously proclaimed 14-year-old Matthias Corvinus King of Hungary after being persuaded to do so by his uncle Michael Szilágyi.
 * 1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill (reconstruction pictured) in Coloma, California, leading to the California Gold Rush.
 * 1968 – Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launched Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong.
 * 1977 – During the Spanish transition to democracy, neo-fascists attacked an office in Madrid, killing five people and injuring four others.
 * 2011 – A North Caucasian jihadist carried out a suicide bombing at Moscow Domodedovo Airport, killing 37 people.