Jan.24th,1848. Northern California James Marshall finds a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill, a discovery that sparks the gold rush the following year.

1965. At London, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill who led his nation through the dark days of World War II dies at the age of 90.“If the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, this was their finest hour.”

1989. Confessed serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair for the raped murder of a 12-year-old girl.

1993. Thurgood Marshall, the first Africa-American to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court dies in Bethesda, Maryland. Marshall, a legendary civil rights lawyer and activist before his time on the high court, was 84.

1949. “Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is!” Actor John Belushi, who played Bluto at the movie “Animal House” and one of the original cast members of TV Saturday Night is born in Chicago.

Today in history, Jan 24th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press. 

点击进入参与历史上的今天节目>>>

声明：音视频均来自互联网链接，仅供学习使用。本网站自身不存储、控制、修改被链接的内容。"沪江英语"高度重视知识产权保护。当如发现本网站发布的信息包含有侵犯其著作权的链接内容时，请联系我们，我们将依法采取措施移除相关内容或屏蔽相关链接。