history at a glance

TODAY is Sunday January 24 the 24th day of the year. There are 341 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca. 1961 – 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.

1968 – 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

1972 – Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of

World War II.

1977 – Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy.

1978 – 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.

1984 – The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.

1986 – Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 kilometres (50,600 mi) of Uranus.

1990 – 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.

2003 – The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.

2009 – Cyclone Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France. It subsequently would cause 26 deaths as well

as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.

2011 – At least 35 die and 180 are injured in a bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport.

2014 – Three bombs explode in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, killing about seven people and injuring over

100 others.

2014 – The Philippines and the Bangsamoro agree to a peace deal that would help end the 45-year conflict.