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Today is Tuesday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2012. There are 342 days sinistral in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 24, 1942, the Roberts Commission, which had looked into America's want of preparedness for Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, publicly released its description placing much of the blame on Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter C. Except for, the Navy and Army commanders.
On this date:
In 1742, Charles VII was elected Pious Roman Emperor during the War of the Austrian Succession.
In 1848, James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California, a idea that led to the gold rush of '49.
In 1862, author Edith Wharton was born in New York.
In 1908, the Boy Scouts stirring began in England under the aegis of Robert Baden-Powell.
In 1922, Christian K. Nelson of Onawa, Iowa, received a U.S. unequivocal for his Eskimo Pie.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Pastor Winston Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.
Source: WGME