Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 24

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 * AD 41 – Cassius Chaerea and disgruntled members of the Praetorian Guard murdered the Roman emperor Caligula, who was succeeded by his uncle Claudius.
 * 771 – Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Yopaat dedicated a 65-ton stele, the largest stone known to be quarried by the Maya civilization, at his city of Quiriguá.
 * 1458 – The Estates unanimously proclaimed 14-year-old Matthias Corvinus King of Hungary after being persuaded to do so by his uncle Michael Szilágyi.
 * 1857 – The University of Calcutta was established as the first modern university in the Indian subcontinent.
 * 1913 – Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
 * 1915 – First World War: British ships of the Grand Fleet intercepted and surprised a German High Seas Fleet squadron in the North Sea, sinking a cruiser and damaging several other vessels.
 * 1966 – Air India Flight 101, en route from Bombay to London, crashed into Mont Blanc in France, killing all 117 people on board.
 * 1968 – Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launched Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong.
 * 1978 – The Soviet nuclear-powered satellite Kosmos 954 burned up during atmospheric reentry, scattering radioactive debris across Canada's Northwest Territories.
 * Born/died: | Richard de Bury |b|1287| George Rooke |d|1709| Charles James Fox |b|17496| Signe Rink |b|1836| Vasily Surikov |b|1848| Edith Wharton |b|1862| Charles Boardman Hawes |b|1889| Maximilian Bircher-Benner |d|1939| August Meyszner |d|1947| Mark Eaton |b|1957 Mary Lou Retton |b|1968 | |Peter Settman |b|1969| Elie Hobeika |d|2002|