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January 24: Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities (1859)

Henry VIII

914 – The Fatimid Caliphate began their first invasion of Egypt, against the Abbasids, which eventually ended in failure.
1536 – King Henry VIII of England (pictured) suffered a serious accident while jousting, receiving injuries which may have caused his later obesity and erratic personality.
1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, leading to the California gold rush.
1972 – Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was found in the jungles of Guam, where he had been hiding since the end of World War II.
1977 – During the Spanish transition to democracy, neo-fascists attacked an office in Madrid, killing five people and injuring four others.

Pope Stephen IV (d. 817)
Charles James Fox (b. 1749)
Luis Suárez (b. 1987)
Rosemary Bryant Mariner (d. 2019)

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