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Today's featured article Alonzo W. Slayback, commander of the regiment Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Formed as Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Battalion, the unit consisted of men recruited in Missouri by Lieutenant Colonel Alonzo W. Slayback (pictured) during Price's Raid in 1864. The battalion's first action was at the Battle of Pilot Knob in September; it later participated in actions at Sedalia, Lexington, and the Little Blue River. In October, the unit was used to find an alternate river crossing during the Battle of the Big Blue River and saw action at the battles of Westport, Marmiton River, and Second Newtonia. Around February 1865, the battalion reached regimental strength after more recruits joined. On June 2, 1865, the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department surrendered. The men of the regiment were located at different points in Louisiana and Arkansas when they were paroled, leading the historian James McGhee to believe that the regiment had disbanded before the surrender. (Full article...) Recently featured: Castell Coch Caitlin Clark Ada Wong Selected anniversaries January 24: Alasitas (La Paz, Bolivia); Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities (1859) Sutter's Mill 1458 – The Estates unanimously proclaimed 14-year-old Matthias Corvinus King of Hungary after being persuaded to do so by his uncle Michael Szilágyi. 1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill (reconstruction pictured) in Coloma, California, leading to the California gold rush. 1968 – Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launched Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong. 1977 – Spanish transition to democracy: Neo-fascists attacked an office in Madrid, killing five people and injuring four others. 1987 – About 20,000 protestors marched in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States. Signe Rink (b. 1836) Maria Tallchief (b. 1925) Madge Bellamy (d. 1990) Helena Kmieć (d. 2017) More anniversaries: January 23 January 24 January 25	In the news Grand Kartal Hotel in 2007 A fire at a ski resort hotel (pictured) in Kartalkaya, Turkey, leaves at least 78 people dead and 51 others injured. A series of attacks by the National Liberation Army in the Catatumbo region of Colombia leaves more than a hundred people dead. A ceasefire agreement suspends the Israel–Hamas war, involving the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. Two Supreme Court judges are assassinated in a shooting at the Supreme Court of Iran in Tehran. Ongoing: Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Mauricio Funes John Sykes Cecile Richards Kulanthai Shanmugalingam Russell Marshall Didier Guillaume Did you know... Ruins of the Jethani Temple ... that the Jethani Temple (ruins pictured) may have collapsed under its own weight? ... that the T24 Festival was organized after a former soldier boasted online that he could set up a 24-person military tent by himself? ... that the organ console at the Loew's Jersey Theatre was originally installed at another theater by mistake? ... that Margaret Reid is the first woman to have served as President of the Australian Senate? ... that The Hangover by Toulouse-Lautrec, which features the stylistic influence of Vincent van Gogh, was once displayed by Aristide Bruant in his nightclub? ... that there were "jubilant" cheers from the courtroom audience when three students were acquitted of the murder of Fernando Rios? ... that the discontinuation of a Warsaw-based Yiddish literary journal in the summer of 1939 was unrelated to the invasion of Poland? ... that Olympic gold medalist Lao Lishi was one of eight bell-ringers for the Alibaba Group's listing on the New York Stock Exchange? ... that according to the Mercurius Aulicus, 400 soldiers were routed by six officers and a boy during the English Civil War?
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