Renamed Leningrad, Gennifer Flowers Born, Homeland Security Launched

On this day: January 24

Petrograd, formerly Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad (1924)

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca (1943)

U.S. Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation (2003)

b: Sharon Tate (1943), Gennifer Flowers (1950); d: Winston Churchill (1965), Herta Oberheuser (1978)

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