January 24 in history: • 771 – Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Yopaat dedicated a 65-ton stele, the largest stone known to be quarried by the Maya civilization, at his city of Quiriguá. → go there • 1913 – Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane. → go there • 1961 – A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two Mark 39 nuclear weapons broke up in mid-air near Goldsboro, North Carolina; one bomb was recovered intact, the other disintegrated. → go there • 1990 – Japan launched the Hiten spacecraft (pictured), the first lunar probe launched by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States. → go there Born 1856: Solomon Butcher Wiki link Born 1968: Mary Lou Retton Wiki link Died 1996: Wim Umboh Wiki link Died 2021: Joseph Sonnabend Wiki link Pictured: The Hiten spacecraft.