Timeline Thursday 24 January 1895

Events on Thursday 24 January 1895 2

• 1849 – 1895 Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-1895) Died 24 January 1895, aged 45 Lord Randolph Churchill was a British Conservative politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and led the party's populist "Tory Democracy" faction. His political career collapsed after he resigned from the cabinet in 1886 in a failed gambit for greater influence. He was the father of Winston Churchill.
• 1895 Henrik Bull's expedition lands at Cape Adare First confirmed human landing on the Antarctic mainland On 24 January 1895 members of Henrik Bull's Norwegian whaling and exploration expedition, aboard the Antarctic, went ashore at Cape Adare. It is regarded as the first confirmed landing by humans on the Antarctic continent. The landing helped open the era of Antarctic exploration that followed in the early twentieth century.