This day In History: January 24

[@LarcR]

Queen Elizabeth II attended Winston Churchill's funeral in St. Paul's Cathedral. Contrary to the usual royal style of being the last to arrive for any function, she was seated before Sir Winston's family arrived and respectfully stood along with other attendees when his coffin was carried in and his family entered.

[@coling3957]

Churchill was the man of the century ... noone has had a life like him. if he were a fictional character people wouldn't believe it.... he was born in the Victorian era, only became PM in his 60's in 1940 and then served a second term in his 70's.. considered VERY old in British politics. A man with flaws to be sure, but he was aware of them . he famously said history would be kind to him , because he would write the history!.. he made his living as a writer, even as far back as when a junior officer fighting in colonial wars. his history of the English speaking people is still highly regarded.

[@terryt643]

You said all I wanted to say. His life when he was in south Africa read's like an adventure story.

[@salernolake]

If you want to enjoy a really good read about Churchill, track down a copy of Sir John Colville's diaries "Fringes of Power". He was Churchill's private secretary in 1940-41, 1943-45, and from 1951-55. He paints a vivid portrait of the man. The movie "Darkest Hour" clearly drew on the diaries for source material; there are a few incidents in the movie that could only have come from Colville's book.

[@tlb2732]

Churchill was the leader Britain needed in those critical years of WWII when her survival depended upon him. It is such a shame to think of what suffering and destruction might have been prevented had he been at the helm in 1937. It is staggering to realize how human beings can be so fallible at times yet so brilliant at others. But we are all imperfect. WWII changed so much about our world and our lives that is still discernable today. The older I get, the more evident this is. I am eternally grateful and we all owe so much to the few great leaders who gave so much of themselves back then and prevailed in the end. We are the beneficiaries of their efforts. Without them at that critical time, our world, and life as we know it would be starkly different.

[@anti-Russia-sigma]

His story would fill many history pages.Sadly,many have commented negatively on him without knowing his story.

[@joecombs7468]

I have "History of the English Speaking People's" in hardback and in paperback (so I can keep the hardback version in good shape). I have also given away copies of the paperback version.

[@markparagi8190]

I have always enjoyed how you shine a light into the little remembered corners of history. These new surveys of a day remind me of a history teacher I had in high school - he began ever class with a series of "On this date..." These are fun. Thank you.

[@jonofthehill]

I love the 'day in history' format, keep it going

[@humaux]

I would like to see one of these for every day of the year and as long as it needed to be to cover the important moments in history.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

I had an English penfriend in 1965. The letter I received a week or two after Sir Winston's death, began 'Sir Winston is dead' and the fountain pen ink was blotted with tears. It was a sad day in our house as well since my Mum was an English war bride who had lived in England through the War.

[@bluekitty3731]

I would suggest watching the funeral of WC that can be found on KZbin, especially the part where's his body is being transported on a barge to his final resting place at his home. As the barge sailed along the river, it passed the docks of the east end, and the huge cranes used to load and offload the ship's,dipped down as to bow. It looked like giants, paying their final respect for the passing of another giant.

[@loditx7706]

@blueKitty: That is fantastic! 👍I’m going to look for it! Thanks.❤️

[@JimMahler]

Another excellent episode! I especially appreciated your speaking at conversational speed -- more slowly than you often do -- making your comments much easier to follow.

[@kirkmanning6232]

Absolutely my favourite personage of all time! I’m a Canadian, thoroughly British and a monarchist. Churchill was the man!

[@juliao1255]

What an amazing day in history this has been! Is every day like this? I love this episode and would like to see more like it. Thanks History Guy!

[@spudgunn8695]

On this day in 1990, I filled my car with petrol. Trouble is, I'd just bought a diesel, which is why I remember it so clearly!😂

[@macekreislahomes1690]

So, what was the result?

[@spudgunn8695]

@@macekreislahomes1690 couple of hours spent draining the tank, refilling it and bleeding the fuel system. Never made that mistake again!

[@cramit79]

I really enjoy your regular content, and I'm enjoying this new format as well. I've been a fan of the world according to briggs that does a shorter version of "on this day" I think the biggest thing about both of you is that you are extremely capable of keeping the viewer in engaged with your style.

[@Napoleon1815-l8c]

I really enjoy these episodes that cover multiple events. Yes, there is so much history!

[@thechancellor3715]

Thoroughly enjoy " On this day..." format. It's as though you had taken a page from the Funk and Wagnalls Annual Almanac I enjoyed reading in primary school. That chronological reading of events as they unfolded created greater interest in a wider world by an understanding of connections and consequences. Much like your fascination with history. Well done....Thank you.

[@puckhockey4733]

Hey, watch your language!

[@loditx7706]

@the chancellor: Yes! Like Edward R. Murrow with, You Are There.

[@ogfoundation]

"I'm so bored with it all." Great last words

[@adalai7649]

This was fantastic!!! I love it when I can learn about all the significant things that have happened in a particular day... And this is so perfect for your channel! Thank you!

[@sashaconrad3939]

This was fascinating and fun to watch! Thank you for a great video!

[@167curly]

Thank you for this synopsis of events happening on many January 24ths. Churchill is my hero, though he had some "warts". He was called a warmonger when he was an almost lone voice in the 1930s warning about Hitler and his Nazi thugs. As the former First Lord of the Admiralty, and was called as British Prime Minister in May, 1940 all Royal Navy vessels flew the flag signal "Welcome back, Winston."

[@carolgonzales1410]

Thank you! I remember some of the things that happened today, Churchill's funeral, the landing on Mars.

[@GRWINNER]

A great episode, Mr. Lance! I would still love to hear the story behind the Twelve O'clock High Robin Hood mug!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

It was a gift from a viewer

[@GRWINNER]

Very cool! I loved that show when I was a kid! I remember how they would turn the mug to face the wall when there was a mission the next day! Thank you!

[@goldgeologist5320]

The show is good but the movie is better! The mug is the key part kicking off the movie!

[@GRWINNER]

I'll have to check that out! Thank you

[@johnpublic6582]

A movie about another group of fliers, more than the few, to which we owe so much. The 8th Air Force had one of the highest casualty rates of an organization during that war.

[@ghowell13]

So. Much. History. And never enough time to devote to it, I'm afraid. I am loving yhe new format, sir, as i stated on the other similarly done upload. Thanks for the always entertaining content!

[@floridaman697]

It's always cool when you get to watch a video like this on the day it came out.

[@michaelgalea5148]

I always enjoy the history guys teaching us about history.

[@majorcrime6067]

The scary thing about the bombs was it was a different safety on each one that prevented detonation. So the safety that prevented one had failed on the other and vice versa.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Sort of. Both had lost all the “safing pins” So detonation was prevented by a single M772 Arm/Safe switch. In one case, the switch had stayed in the safe position, preventing the batteries from powering the reaction. In the second, the torque of the crash had apparently turned the switch to “arm,” but the weapon had disintegrated via contact with the earth before the circuit could complete. All in all, the conclusion by Sandia engineers that “the Mk 39 Mod 2 bomb did not possess adequate safety for the airborne alert role in the B-52." Seemed well-founded, if understated.

[@JONFATSARNOTT]

Great Birthday present thanks!

[@MTAdventures406]

Another great episode! Thank you for posting this!

[@JWSitterley]

Fascinating...Thanks History Guy.

[@melissavancleave8686]

Your channel is so enjoyable. Thank you.

[@gerardjohnson2106]

I really enjoy these presentations of "On This Day in History".👍👍👏🇺🇲

[@bouffon1]

That was my 17th birthday. I spent all morning putting a radio kit together, and the first thing I heard on it was this news.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Happy Birthday!

[@carywest9256]

Happy Birthday to ya! Let me guess by your moniker that you may be a blue haired elderly lady?

[@bouffon1]

probably an insult? Never mind, I forgive Americans for being american every day. "buffoon (n.) 1540s, "type of pantomime dance;" 1580s, "professional comic fool;" 1590s in the general sense "a clown, a joker;" from French bouffon (16c.), from Italian buffone "jester," from buffa "joke, jest, pleasantry," from buffare "to puff out the cheeks," a comic gesture, of echoic origin.@@carywest9256

[@glenmartin2437]

Thank you. Indeed a lot of history. Churchill has been my hero since boyhood and remains so. It's a miracle he lived as long as he did.

[@curtismcelhaney2512]

Really do like the new format. Even more more history than normal lol

[@earllutz2663]

Thank you again THG for your on-going education.

[@bartsanders1553]

I sometimes comment that I think I'm clicking a Dachinifel video when the thumbnail here is a b&w naval photo, sometimes to the chagrin of THG. Well, this morning the script was flipped, as Drach posted a color photo as his thumbnail, and I thought I was clicking a The History Guy video. We've come full circle😂

[@hannahbrown2728]

Just started watching Drach and Ive found myself doing this a bit myself

[@beargillium2369]

​@@SeanD2the link is strong, I came from a Forgotten Weapons video, to drach, then here

[@LMacNeill]

I like these "This day in History" videos. What a great addition to your channel!

[@salernolake]

In 1983, a group of us traveled to Java in Indonesia, to witness a total solar eclipse. Among our group was an old married couple in their mid-80's. They had been a young married couple, living in New York in 1925 when the eclipse passed through. They were so impressed by the spectacle that they became life-long eclipse chasers. They had witnessed over 20 eclipses when they joined our group. Other than the great stories they told, what impressed us was their energy. They out-lasted folks who were a quarter of their age! 🤣😂

[@therob4371]

I love your version of this day in history. It used to be the second thing I read in the newspaper after reading The Far Side.

[@BasicDrumming]

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

[@paulgranski]

I am a fan of your site, and this new what happened today format is perfect....

[@brandonhamilton833]

I love these Day in History videos. Great job!!

[@rogergoodman8665]

If there was no Sir Winston Churchill, Great Britain would have fallen right after France did during WW2. His famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech is one of the greatest speeches ever.

[@shawnr771]

Very cool. Thank you for the lesson. I appreciate the deep dives into a single subject and I really like these also. Well done.

[@VespasianJudea]

I love these. Keep em coming until you run out of days.

[@flatulentdragon]

I honestly don't remember you doing a "today in history" episode before, and the 24th is my birthday, so this was a pleasant surprise 😊

[@svenskanorsk]

Andrew Roberts’ book about Churchill is truly one of the best. Highly recommended.

[@pokiishere-sebastian2126]

Love this new format! 👍

[@frankgulla2335]

Thank you, THG, for another "Day in History" episode. This was fascinating.

[@ponyote]

I like this format. A day in history can have many impacts.

[@mattgeorge90]

Thank you for sharing! ❤

[@BrilliantDesignOnline]

I learned quite a bit from this episode. Excellent.

[@altamiradorable]

1:00 Beautiful picture taken in Ottawa by Canadian photographer, Yousuf Karsh

[@goofyiest]

Love all your episodes. These are really cool snapshots of the past. Thanks for all you do.

[@samuelclayton4405]

Thanks HG. Excellent program.

[@PropensityVisualized]

I reallly like the day in history sets

[@loditx7706]

This was great! Thanks a lot!! ❤

[@jackbrunner4126]

There is no doubt in my mind that Winston Churchill saved the world from the Nazis and Joe Stalin. His Energy, his focus, his genius for seeing into the future, his leadership, and above all his skills of communication make him one of History’s greatest leaders. I remember his funeral as a child on TV

[@glenmoss02]

Well said. I couldn't agree more.

[@grayhatjen5924]

I love this compilation format. So much history, indeed. ✌🏻

[@kellybasham3113]

Love your videos

[@michaelmills34]

I do love this channel!

[@romad275]

Other important (to me) January 24th events: Apple started selling its Macintosh computer in 1984, and my sister Sharon was born in 1954.

[@k.c1126]

I really liked the way you segued between the prime Minister and the scout leader... 👍🏼👍🏼

[@robinc6324]

Great compilation of history on the day

[@RetiredSailor60]

Good Wednesday morning History Guy and everyone watching. Class is now in session

[@glorybound7599]

I like the Robin Hood mug from the movie “Twelve O’clock High” on your shelf.

[@steveshoemaker6347]

THANKS THG🎀 for all of his hard work and excellent research in making History video's for us to watch 👍 Old F-4 Phantom 2 Shoe🇺🇸

[@randylewis1310]

Great Episode - Thank you!

[@jme36053]

Baden Powell’s book, Scouting for Boys, is an interesting read. A copy can be obtained at Project Gutenberg for free.

[@roverworld7218]

In Mexico in the 1990s it's Spanish version was still in print. I think it was even required reading, along with more contemporary training/educational material, for the first ranks in the Junior Troop (Tropa Scout or Tropa Menor: 11 to 15 years of age) and in the Senior Troop (Expedicionarios or Tropa Mayor, 14 to 17 years of age). The original Jungle Book was required material for the Wolve Cubs (7 to 10 years old) and Rovers (18 to 22 years old) read another book by "B.P.": Rovering to Success, published circa 1920.

[@Paladin1873]

There's no way canned beer tastes better than bottled beer.

[@FYMASMD]

And there is no way you can compare bottled beer to tap beer. Cans have their place. I take a 6pak in my backpack when I go into the back country.

[@Paladin1873]

@@FYMASMD I agree, but I don't take alcohol into the field, so cans are not an issue for me.

[@scottclay4253]

Well done, thank you.

[@davidphelps5857]

My birthday is about as close to the bottom of the list of significant events this day as can be, but is on the list.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Happy Birthday!

[@luislealsantos]

Excelente video

[@mellissadalby1402]

Mr. Lance, You are a formidable researcher.

[@wasyertakeawaythaturmadeofcorn]

Another "This Day in History," yipee! Very glad to see another.

[@BobBrandon]

I like this format!

[@MightyMezzo]

That film of the solar eclipse over New York is awesome, as were the Mayor’s remarks.

[@davefellhoelter1343]

THANKS! I have worked With "the American Can" Co. in So Cal. as an Electrician, Millwright, and Pipefitter! may have worked next door to one of their Fab Shops in 80's Compton? Now "I Know More!" ALWAYS! GOOD Stuff! Thanks! I have similar family Pics of LB Ca 33 quake, mom's family survived, looked like Berlin after WWII.

[@tygrkhat4087]

I love the new, alternate format, if you will. Only 366 days, but so much history.

[@John-g6x1h]

By wildest coincidence I'm in the middle of reading "Churchill" by Geoffrey Best. (I'm only up to the year 1915.) I've also read a lot of Churchill's own writing. Very detailed, it does give the picture of a great man, if not a perfect one. Of course, not quite as great or perfect as he makes himself out to be, but I can't blame a guy for that.

[@danam0228]

I love "this day in history" info. Maybe you could do a "this week in history" video every week?

[@Richard-m8s3s]

Sunday January 24 - 1954 i was born !!! 70 years ago !! here in Toronto Canada - So Long ! - 1/24/2024

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Happy Birthday!

[@romad275]

Congratulations! My sister was born today in 1954 also. My father was stationed in Germany so she had dual citizenship for awhile.

[@jamesclarksowers7060]

70 years before Winston died, his dad died on the same day.

[@sandradasch8387]

THANK YOU

[@scottterry1659]

I enjoy this series

[@lawrenrich-nf3ni]

That’s the thing about history .. every day it gets deeper and wider as it piles up

[@richardmourdock2719]

And ironically, though not mentioned by THG, Churchill's father also died on this date (many years before his son, of course)

[@IMBlakeley]

About the first TV I can vaguely recall was Churchill's funeral.

[@dannystaton5386]

Greetings history dude 🎉

[@Mauishuck]

Fun! It’s my birthday, so it’s even better today!

[@stevendouglas786]

Happy birthday to you!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Happy Birthday!

[@MrWhatsHisFace87]

Happy Birthday! 🎉

[@shawnr771]

Happy Birthday.

[@honodle7219]

He had his flaws to be sure. But mad respect. He led his nation admirably when they stood alone against the fascist menace. I can't fathom the horror of having enemy bombers trying to kill me and destroy my nation. No one who hasn't experienced it can. RIP Sir Winston Churchill. You stepped up when you were needed most.

[@whtfsh765]

I really enjoy the "This Day in History" episodes.

[@CheshireTomcat68]

These are fun!

[@bh4885]

My mother had just given birth to me when a nurse came in and told her that Churchill had just died.

[@Sublette217]

The photographer got Churchill’s scowl portrait by snatching away his cigar.

[@guyh9992]

Robert Menzies gave Churchill's eulogy as the senior Commonwealth leader at the time. Menzies and Churchill became friends after WWII but were certainly not in 1941 when Menzies was Churchill's biggest critic in London primarily over the Greece/Crete disaster where the Australian and NZ governments had felt that they had been manipulated into agreeing to the operation.

[@rocketmanVA703]

January 24, 1982 - The San Francisco 49ers, named after the horde of people who came to California in that year because of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill exactly 134 years earlier, won their 1st Super Bowl over the Cincinnati Bengals... in the Silverdome!

[@boevansrealty8050]

On this date in 1983 Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant passed away in Tuscaloosa, Alabama a few weeks after announcing his retirement

[@TheOsfania]

Well done.

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

I remember Churchill's death and funeral well, I was 9 at the time. I suppose I must be getting old, as I keep seeing things I remember on history programs?

[@amadeusamwater]

Historical events great and small happen somewhere every day. Just pick a day and start looking.

[@snort455]

I like the "this day" theme. Thumbs up!