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January 21

January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 344 days remaining (345 in leap years).

Events

  • 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
  • 1276 - Innocent V becomes Pope.
  • 1525 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
  • 1643 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga.
  • 1720 - Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
  • 1789 - The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • 1793 - After being found guilty for treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is guillotined.
  • 1793 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
  • 1853 - Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope-folding machine.
  • 1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
  • 1864 - The Tauranga Campaign starts during the Maori Wars.
  • 1887 - The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed.
  • 1899 - Opel Motors opens for business.
  • 1908 - New York City passes a law, the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public only to be vetoed by the mayor.
  • 1911 - The first Monte Carlo Rally.
  • 1915 - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit, Michigan.
  • 1919 - Meeting in the Mansion House Dublin, the Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution.
  • 1924 - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
  • 1925 - Albania declares itself a republic.
  • 1941 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
  • 1950 - Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
  • 1954 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States.
  • 1968 - Simon & Garfunkel release the Original Soundtrack to The Graduate, which quickly goes to #1 on the pop charts and which will bring Simon a Grammy for Best Original Score.
  • 1969 - An experimental underground nuclear reactor at Lucens Vad, Switzerland, released radiation into a cavern, which was then sealed.
  • 1976 - The first commercial service Concorde flight took off.
  • 1977 - President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all Vietnam War draft evaders.
  • 1994 - Lorena Bobbitt is found not-guilty by reason of temporary insanity for severing the penis of her husband John Bobbitt.
  • 1997 - Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
  • 1999 - War on Drugs: In one of the one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4,300 kg) of cocaine on board.
  • 2003 - The terms of Kevin Mitnick's parole allow him to use a computer again.
  • 2004 - Canada: The residence of reporter, Juliet O'Neill was searched by the RCMP investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar.
  • 2004 - NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover ''Spirit'\') ceased communication with mission control. The problem was with Flash Memory management and fixed remotely from Earth on Feb 6th.
  • 2005 - In Belize's capital city, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.

    Births

    January 20 - January 22 - December 21 - February 21 -- listing of all days


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