| 10018 | January 24 | Birth | 1679 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher and academic (d. 1754) |
| 10019 | January 24 | Birth | 1705 – Farinelli, Italian actor and singer (d. 1782) |
| 10020 | January 24 | Birth | 1709 – Dom Bédos de Celles, French monk and organist (d. 1779) |
| 9991 | January 24 | Event | 1942 – World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom. |
| 9992 | January 24 | Event | 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca. |
| 9993 | January 24 | Event | 1946 – The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. |
| 9994 | January 24 | Event | 1947 – Greek banker Dimitrios Maximos becomes Prime Minister of Greece. |
| 9995 | January 24 | Event | 1960 – Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police. |
| 9996 | January 24 | Event | 1961 – Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost. |
| 9997 | January 24 | Event | 1968 – Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launches Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during wider fighting around Long Bình and Biên Hòa |
| 9998 | January 24 | Event | 1972 – Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. |
| 9999 | January 24 | Event | 1977 – Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy. |
| 10000 | January 24 | Event | 1978 – Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered. |
| 10001 | January 24 | Event | 1984 – The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale. |
| 10002 | January 24 | Event | 1986 – Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 kilometres (50,600 mi) of Uranus. |
| 10003 | January 24 | Event | 1990 – Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States. |
| 10004 | January 24 | Event | 1993 – Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara. |
| 10005 | January 24 | Event | 1996 – Polish Prime Minister Józef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow. |
| 10006 | January 24 | Event | 2003 – The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation. |
| 10007 | January 24 | Event | 2009 – Cyclone Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France. It subsequently would cause 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies. |
| 10008 | January 24 | Event | 2011 – At least 35 die and 180 are injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. |
| 10009 | January 24 | Event | 2014 – Three bombs explode in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, killing about seven people and injuring over 100 others. |
| 10010 | January 24 | Event | 2014 – The Philippines and the Bangsamoro agree to a peace deal that would help end the 45-year conflict. |
| 10011 | January 24 | Birth | 76 – Hadrian, Roman emperor (d. 138) |
| 10012 | January 24 | Birth | 1287 – Richard de Bury, English bishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1345) |
| 10013 | January 24 | Birth | 1444 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Italian husband of Bona of Savoy (d. 1476) |
| 10014 | January 24 | Birth | 1540 – Edmund Campion, English priest and martyr (d. 1581) |
| 10015 | January 24 | Birth | 1638 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and politician, Lord Chamberlain of Great Britain (d. 1706) |
| 10016 | January 24 | Birth | 1670 – William Congreve, English playwright and poet (d. 1729) |
| 10017 | January 24 | Birth | 1674 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735) |