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TODAY - Jan 24, 2026

Thought of the Day

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Today's Birthday

Hadrian
Hadrian Emperor, Roman(76 Ad)

A Roman emperor who built the Hadrian wall, across northern England to keep out the Scots.

 
Ernst Hoffmann
Ernst Hoffmann Author, German(1776)

A German romantic author of fantasy, composer and the jurist.

 
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton Novelist, American(1862)

An American novelist and short story writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for her work.

 
Desmond Morris
Desmond Morris Zoologist, British(1928)

A British zoologist and writer, author of "The Naked Ape."

 
Mary Lou Retton
Mary Lou Retton Gymnast , American(1968)

First American who won the gold medal in women's gymnastics.

This day in History

1848

The California Gold Rush kicks off when James Marshall, a construction worker, discovers a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill, California.

1935

The first canned beer is sold by the Krueger Brewing Company in Richmond, Virginia.

1965

Winston Churchill, "the last lion of British politics" and the Britain greatest statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Great Britain from1940-1945 and 1951- 1955, dies in London at age 90.

1976

A Russian satellite crashes near Yellowknife in Canada.

Man who made the difference

Mary Lou Retton (1968)

Mary Lou Retton

American gymnast and the first American who won the gold medal in women's gymnastics in 1984 at the Olympic Games which were held in Los Angeles and won the first of three consecutive American Cups (1983-1985), was born on 24 January 1968 in Fairmont, West Virginia. At West Virginia University, she enrolled herself in a children's gymnastics class. Soon she earned fame as one of the best young gymnasts in the U.S. She entered into the junior national team of the United States in 1981. In 1982 Coach Bela Karolyi, trained her at the U.S. Gymnastics Centre in Houston, Texas. She won the all-around title at Japan's Chunichi Cup competition and become the first American woman to do so.

Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal