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UPI Almanac for Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015

Prodi resigns in Italy, airport suicide bomb attack in Moscow ... on this date in history.

By United Press International
Rescuers move a wounded blast victim from an ambulance at a Moscow hospital Jan. 24, 2011, after a suicide bomb attack at Domodedovo airport. Thirty-seven people were killed and more than 170 wounded in the bombing. UPI/File
1 of 7 | Rescuers move a wounded blast victim from an ambulance at a Moscow hospital Jan. 24, 2011, after a suicide bomb attack at Domodedovo airport. Thirty-seven people were killed and more than 170 wounded in the bombing. UPI/File | License Photo

Today is Saturday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2015 with 341 to follow.

The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. Evening stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Uranus and Venus.

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Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. They include English dramatist William Congreve in 1670; Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1712; British social reformer Edwin Chadwick in 1800; author Edith Wharton in 1862; abstract painter Robert Motherwell in 1915; Hall of Fame sportscaster Jack Brickhouse in 1916; actor Ernest Borgnine in 1917; evangelist Oral Roberts in 1918; ballet dancer Maria Tallchief Paschen in 1925); musician Doug Kershaw in 1936 (age 79); musician Ray Stevens in 1939 (age 76); singer Neil Diamond in 1941 (age 74); singer Aaron Neville in 1941 (age 74); actor Sharon Tate in 1943; comedian John Belushi in 1949; actor Michael Ontkean in 1946 (age 69); singer Warren Zevon in 1947; actor Nastassja Kinski in 1961 (age 54); Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Mary Lou Retton in 1968 (age 47).


On this date in history:

In 1848, gold was discovered at John Sutter's mill near Sacramento. The discovery touched off the great gold rush of 1849.

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In 1908, the first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell, a general in the British army.

In 1916, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an income tax was unconstitutional.

In 1935, beer was sold in cans for the first time -- in Richmond, Va.

In 1965, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill died at age 91.

In 1993, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to serve on the nation's highest court, died of cardiac arrest at age 84.

In 2008, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned after losing a confidence vote in the Senate.

In 2010, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 carrying 90 people crashed into the Mediterranean Sea about half an hour after taking off from Beirut, Lebanon. Officials said 23 people were killed.

In 2011, a suicide bomb attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport international arrival gate killed 37 people and injured more than 170 others.

In 2013, a federal judge in Chicago sentenced U.S. citizen David Coleman Headley to 35 years in prison for his role in a 2008 terror attack that killed 160 people in Mumbai.

In 2014, Walmart said it would lay off 2,300 workers at its Sam's Club stores, about 2 percent of the workforce.

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A thought for the day: Humorist Will Stanton said, "Republicans study the financial pages of the newspaper, Democrats put them in the bottom of the bird cage."

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