Today in History: January 24, gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California

Today is Friday, Jan. 24, the 24th time of 2025. There are 341 days near successful the year.

Today successful history:

On Jan. 24, 1848, James W. Marshall recovered a golden nugget astatine Sutter’s Mill successful bluish California, a find that sparked the California golden rush.

Also connected this date:

In 1945, Associated Press warfare analogous Joseph Morton was among a radical of captives executed by German soldiers astatine the Mauthausen-Gusen attraction campy successful Austria.

In 1965, Winston Churchill died successful London astatine property 90.

In 1978, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite, Kosmos 954, plunged done Earth’s ambiance and disintegrated, scattering radioactive debris implicit parts of bluish Canada.

In 1984, Apple Computer began selling its archetypal Macintosh model, which boasted a built-in 9-inch monochrome display, a timepiece complaint of 8 megahertz and 128k of RAM.

In 1989, confessed serial slayer Ted Bundy was executed successful Florida’s electrical chair.

In 2003, erstwhile Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn arsenic the archetypal caput of the caller Department of Homeland Security.

In 2011, a termination bomber attacked Moscow’s busiest airport, sidesplitting 37 people; Chechen separatists claimed responsibility.

In 2013, President Barack Obama’s Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the lifting of a prohibition connected women serving successful combat.

In 2018, erstwhile sports doc Larry Nassar, who had admitted to molesting immoderate of the nation’s apical gymnasts for years nether the guise of aesculapian treatment, was sentenced to 40 to 175 years successful prison.

Today’s birthdays:

• Cajun instrumentalist Doug Kershaw is 89.
• Singer-songwriter Ray Stevens is 86.
• Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond is 84.
• Singer Aaron Neville is 84.
• Physicist Michio Kaku is 78.
• Actor Daniel Auteuil is 75.
• Comedian Yakov Smirnoff is 74.
• Actor William Allen Young is 71.
• Musician Jools Holland is 67.
• Actor Nastassja Kinski is 64.
• Olympic gymnastics golden medalist Mary Lou Retton is 57.
• Actor Matthew Lillard is 55.
• Musician Beth Hart is 53.
• Actor Ed Helms is 51.
• Actor-comedian Kristen Schaal is 47.
• Actor Tatyana Ali is 46.
• Actor Carrie Coon is 44.
• Actor Daveed Diggs is 43.
• Actor Mischa Barton is 39.
• NFL manager Sean McVay is 39.
• Soccer subordinate Luis Suárez is 38.