Reuters historical calendar - January 24

LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on January 24 in history: 1935 - Krueger Cream Ale, the first beer to be sold in cans, went on sale in Richmond, Virginia.

1943 - A meeting between British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt in Casablanca ended with demands for Germany's unconditional surrender in World War Two.

1960 - An insurrection against French rule began in Algeria.

1965 - Winston Churchill, statesman and British prime minister from 1940-45 and 1951-55, died.

1972 - Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was discovered on Guam, having spent 28 years hiding in the jungle believing World War Two was still going on.

2000 - Britain's EMI group PLC and Time Warner Inc announced a merger to create the world's biggest music group.

2003 - Food group Nestle SA reached a deal with Ethiopia on a 27-year-old damages claim agreeing to reduce a compensation claim against the country over nationalisation to 1.5 million dollars from 6 million dollars and to reinvest the money in famine relief.

2004 - NASA's Opportunity rover arrived safely on Mars and sent pictures of the planet back to Earth about four hours after it landed.

2005 - The UN General Assembly marked its first commemoration of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps as a reminder that mass murder still threatened the world.

**2006 - Egyptologists discovered a 3,400-year-old statue of Queen Ti, wife of Amenhotep III, one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs and grandmother to the boy-king Tutankhamun, at an ancient temple in Luxor.

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