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Jan.24th,1848
Northern California James Marshall finds a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill, a discovery that [-----1-----] the following year.
1965
At London, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill who [-----2-----] 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
[-----3-----] 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 [-----4-----] 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 [-----5-----] of TV Saturday Night is born in Chicago.
Today in history, Jan 24th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.
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