Today in history: On Jan. 24, 1848, James W. Marshall found a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern California, a discovery that sparked the California gold rush. Also on this date: In 1945, Associated Press war correspondent Joseph Morton was among a group of captives executed by German soldiers at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria. In 1965, Winston Churchill died in London at age 90. In 1978, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite, Kosmos 954, plunged through Earth’s

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