This Day In History
January 23
Year Month Start Date Event
1900 January 24 The Evening Star is renamed as The Toronto Daily Star
1923 January 24 January 24 - Ernest Armstrong becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing George H. Murray, who had governed for 27 years
1927 January 24 Born - January 24 - Phyllis Lambert, architect and philanthropist
1927 January 24 Died - January 24 - Agnes Maule Machar, author (b.1837)
1930 January 24 Born - January 24 - Felix Capella, race walker
1933 January 24 Born - January 24 - Claude Préfontaine, actor (d.2013)
1937 January 24 Born - January 24 - Suzanne Tremblay, politician
1939 January 24 Died - January 24 - Alfred Edmond Bourgeois, politician (b.1872)
1947 January 24 Born - January 24 - Steve McCaffery, poet and scholar
1949 January 24 Born - January 24 - Guy Charron, ice hockey player
1952 January 24 January 24 – Vincent Massey appointed first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada
1954 January 24 Died - January 24 – H. H. Wrong, diplomat (b.1894)
1962 January 24 Died - January 24 – James Charles Brady, politician (born 1876)
1966 January 24 Born - January 24 – Michael Forgeron, rower and Olympic gold medalist
1975 January 24 On January 24, Richard Blass was hit twenty three times by police bullets, dying instantly.
1977 January 24 Died - January 24 - Jack Bush, painter (b.1909)
1978 January 24 January 24 - Cosmos 954 a Soviet satellite breaks up over northern Canada.
1990 January 24 January 24 – Jean Charest resigns from cabinet after he was found to have spoken with a judge
1990 January 24 January 24 – The Tories introduce legislation that would create the Goods and Services Tax (GST), a national sales tax
2002 January 24 Died - January 24 - Peter Gzowski, broadcaster, writer and reporter (born 1933)
2006 January 24 January 24 - Mario Lemieux announces his second retirement.
2011 January 24 January 24 - The former Liberal MLA Dave Taylor announces he is joining the Alberta Party, becoming the party's first MLA.
2011 January 24 Died - January 24 - Chief White Eagle, 93, Mohawk tribal leader, actor and stuntman (born 1917)
2011 January 24 Died - January 24 - Jack Matheson, 86, sports journalist (born 1924)
2011 January 24 January 24 - Quebec goes through a cold snap and Hydro-Québec registers a record consumption of electricity reaching 38,200 megawatts at 7:30 am