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This day in history: January 24

1. 1961

   A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two Mark 39 nuclear weapons broke up in mid-air near Goldsboro, North Carolina; one bomb was recovered intact, the other disintegrated.

2. 1968

   Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launched Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong.

3. 1972

   Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was found in the jungles of Guam, where he had been hiding since the end of World War II.

4. 1977

   Spanish transition to democracy: Neo-fascists attacked an office in Madrid, killing five people and injuring four others.

5. 1978

   The Soviet nuclear-powered satellite Kosmos 954 burned up during atmospheric reentry, scattering radioactive debris across Canada's Northwest Territories.

6. 1987

   About 20,000 protestors marched in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States.

7. 1990

   Japan launched the Hiten spacecraft, the first lunar probe launched by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States.

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