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On this day: January 24

POSTED: 02:50 PM PST Jan 23, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 23, 2013

The California Gold Rush begins, the Eskimo Pie is patented, Jackie Robinson is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and the first Apple Macintosh goes on sale, all on this day.

OTD January 24 - Apple Macintosh — 27 / 37

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1984: The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale. It would go on to become the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface, rather than a command-line interface.

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OTD January 24 - Eskimo Pie

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OTD January 24 - Casablanca Conference

OTD January 24 - Sharon Tate

OTD January 24 - United Nations resolution

OTD January 24 - Warren Zevon

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OTD January 24 - Brian Epstein

OTD January 24 - Jackie Robinson

OTD January 24 - Winston Churchill

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OTD January 24 - Ed Helms

OTD January 24 - Larry Fine

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OTD January 24 - George Cukor

OTD January 24 - Apple Macintosh

OTD January 24 - Voyager 2

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OTD January 24 - Mischa Barton

OTD January 24 - Ted Bundy

OTD January 24 - Thurgood Marshall

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OTD January 24 - hand transplant

OTD January 24 - Department of Homeland Security

OTD January 24 - Chris Penn

OTD January 24 - Pernell Roberts

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