24th January: Today In History

Today is January,  the 24th day of 2016. There are 333,days left in the year. Today's Highlight In History; Birthdays:   1917 Ernest Borgnine, American film and television actor   1928 Desmond Morris, English zoologist and author   1935 Bamber Gascoigne, Presenter, broadcaster & author   1941 Neil Diamond, American singer/songwriter   1949 John Belushi, American comedy actor   1961 Nastassja Kinski, German born film actress Events:   1848 Gold was first discovered in California, which then started the gold rush   1916 Conscription began in Britain   1935 Beer, in cans, was sold for the first time, in Virginia (United States)   1965 Winston Churchill, Britains wartime prime minister, died   1975 Dr Coggan became the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury   1978 A Russian satellite accidently crashed in Canada's Northwest Territory   1985 The space shuttle 'Discovery' was launced on its first military mission   1987 The were violent clashes, and many arrests, outside the Wapping print works   1991 Operation 'Desert Storm' against Iraq continued with thousands of air sorties