Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost. Date: January 24, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 24 📅 Events on this day in 1961 📅 On This Day (Today)
Air India Flight 101 crashes into Mont Blanc. Date: January 24, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 24 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today)
Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launches Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during wider fighting around Long Bình and Biên Hòa. Date: January 24, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 24 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today)
Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. Date: January 24, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 24 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Atocha massacre occurs in Madrid during the Spanish transition to democracy. Date: January 24, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 24 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day (Today)
Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered. Date: January 24, 1978 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 24 📅 Events on this day in 1978 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Voyager 2 space probe makes its closest approach to Uranus. Date: January 24, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 24 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today)
About 20,000 protestors march in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States. Date: January 24, 1987 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 24 📅 Events on this day in 1987 📅 On This Day (Today)
An Aeroflot Yakovlev Yak-40 crashes at Nizhnevartovsk Airport, killing 27 people. Date: January 24, 1988 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 24 📅 Events on this day in 1988 📅 On This Day (Today)
Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States. Date: January 24, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 24 📅 Events…