Jan 24, 1798
The Irish Rebellion.

Jan 24, 1788
French explorer Comte de La Perouse arrives off Botany Bay, Australia.

Jan 24, 1924
Petrograd is renamed Leningrad.

1891
Tesla invents the TESLA COIL which is widely used.

1898
TESLA announced his invention of a Teleautomatic boat guided by Remote Control (RC).

1899 May
From May 1899 - early 1890, TESLA made what he regarded as his most important discovery Terrestrial Stationary Waves

Jan 24, 1935
1st beer in cans. Krueger Cream Ale goes on sale Richmond Virginia.

Jan 24, 1943
British P.M. Winston Churchill and U.S. President have a meeting. The meeting ends with demands for Germany to surrender.

Jan 24, 1946
United Nations General Assembly votes to create the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission.

Jan 24 1965
Sir Winston Churchill, wartime British Prime Minister dies age 90.

Jan 24, 1798
Irish Rebellionr

Jan 24, 1972
Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in Guam hiding in the jungle 28 years thinking WW2 still on.

Jan 24, 1978
A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunges to Earth and disintegrates scattering radioactive debris over northern Canada.

Jan 24, 1935
1st beer in cans. Krueger Cream Ale goes on sale Richmond Virginia.

Jan 24, Rome
Roman Emperor Hadrian born.

Jan 24, Prussia
King Frederick the Great of Prussia from 1712-1786.

Jan 31 1606
Dutch Navigator Willem Janz becomes the 1st European traveller to Australia.

Jan 31, 1606
Guy Fawkes executed for his role in the attempt to blow up the British House of Parliament

Jan 31, 1876
U.S. Government orders all Native Americans to move to reservations or be declared hostile.

Jan 31, 1950
U.S. President Harry Truman anounces development of the hydrogen bomb.

Jan 31, 1958
US launch of 1st satellite Explorer I and enters the Space Age.

Jan 31, Japan
Japanese Shogun, Tokugawa leyasu 1543-1616.

9/10 July - Dr. Nikola Tesla -Born July 9/10 1856 Smiljan Croatia now Yugoslavia - Died 7 Jan 1943 New York City U.S.A.

1884 Tesla emigrated to the U.S.A. 1885 Tesla sells the patent rights to his system of alternating current dynamo's, transformers and motors (AC) to George Westinghouse.

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