This day in History - January 24

352 Historic Events for January 24
1656 Event 1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
1659 Event Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe," premieres in Paris
1664 Birth John Vanbrugh, London, dramatist/architect (baptized)
1666 Death Johann Andreas Herbst, composer, dies at 77
1678 Death Joan Maetsuyker, gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 72
1679 Event King Charles II disbands English parliament
1679 Birth Christian von Wolff, German philosopher
1705 Birth Farinelli, [Carlo Broschi], Andria Italy, castrato
1712 Birth Frederick II, (the Great), king of Prussia (1740-86)
1712 Birth Georg F Schmidt, German engraver/etcher
1722 Event Czar Peter the Great begins civil system
1722 Event Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st US divinity professor (Harvard)
1732 Birth Pierre de Baumarchais, France, playwright (Barber of Seville)
1742 Event German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor
1746 Birth Gustav III, king during Swedish Enlightenment (1771-92)
1750 Birth Wybo Fijnje, Dutch politician/patriot/journalist
1758 Birth Johann Chrysostomus Drexel, composer
1764 Event Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire
1767 Birth Antony CW Staring, Dutch lawyer/poet (Jaromir)
1774 Birth Karl Moser, composer
1776 Birth Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer (Undine)
1778 Birth Charles F, duke of Berry/son of French king Charles X
1798 Birth Karl von Staudt, German math professor (projective geometrician)
1798 Birth Karl von Holtei, Silezian actor/playwright (Die Vagabunden)
1800 Birth Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer