Fact: Five thousandths of a millimeter is the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mould factories
Fact: The Flintstones cartoon was the first thirty-minute cartoon to be aired during prime time
On this day: 24/01/41
Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
On this day: 24/01/914
Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
On this day: 24/01/1438
The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.
On this day: 24/01/1458
Matthias Corvinus is elected King of Hungary.
On this day: 24/01/1536
King Henry VIII of England suffers an accident while jousting, leading to a brain injury that historians say may have influenced his later erratic behaviour and possible impotence.
On this day: 24/01/1651
Arauco War: Spanish and Mapuche authorities meet in the Parliament of Boroa renewing the fragile peace established at the parliaments of Quillín in 1641 and 1647.
On this day: 24/01/1679
King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament.
On this day: 24/01/1742
Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
On this day: 24/01/1758
During the Seven Years' War the leading burghers of Königsberg submit to Elizabeth of Russia, thus forming Russian Prussia (until 1763).
On this day: 24/01/1817
Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras are captured during the action of Picheuta.
Fact: Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China
Fact: The Flintstones cartoon was the first thirty-minute cartoon to be aired during prime time
Fact: A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana
Fact: Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China
On this day: 22/01/613
Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
On this day: 22/01/871
Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing.
On this day: 22/01/1506
The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
On this day: 22/01/1517
The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.
On this day: 22/01/1555
The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now Myanmar.
On this day: 22/01/1689
The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones of England and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.
On this day: 22/01/1808
The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing the French army's invasion of Portugal two months earlier.
On this day: 22/01/1824
The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
On this day: 22/01/1849
Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
On this day: 22/01/1863
The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
Fact: Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."