The 21st o Januar is the 21st day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 344 days ti come (345 in lowp years).
Events
- 1643 - Abel Tasman reaches Tonga.
- 1720 - Swaden an Proushie sign the Treaty o Stockholm.
- 1793 - Louis XVI o Fraunce is executit bi guillotine efter bein foond guilty o treason bi the Naitional Convention.
- 1793 - Roushie an Proushie split Poland.
- 1854 - The ship "RMS Tayleur" sinks aff Lambay Island aff the east coast o Ireland.
- 1861 - Jefferson Davis resigns frae the Unitit States Senate.
- 1911 - The first Monte Carlo rally taks place.
- 1917 - A yirdquauk in Bali, Indonesie, kills 15,000 fowk.
- 1924 - Roushie revolutionar leader Vladimir Lenin dees agit 53.
- 1925 - Albanie declares issel a republic.
- 1948 - The current Banner o Quebec is adoptit.
- 1951 - The Mt. Lamington volcanae in Papua New Guinea erupts, killin 3,000 fowk.
- 1960 - Avianca Flicht 671 crashes aff Montego Bay, Jamaica, killin 37 fowk.
- 1960 - A coal mine collapses in Holly Country, Sooth Africae, killin 435 miners.
- 1976 - The commercial service o Concorde stairts.
- 1977 - US Preses Jimmy Carter pardons nearly aw Vietnam War draft evaders.
- 1980 - The Great Waw o Cheenae is put unner special pertection.
- 1980 - Iran Air Flicht 291 crashes in the Alborz Muntains on approach tae Tehran, killin 128 fowk.
- 1985 - Galaxy Airlines Flicht 203 crashes naur Reno, Nevada, killin 70 fowk.
- 2000 - Ecuador's Preses Jamil Mahuad is removit in a coup.
- 2001 − Nisi-tôkyô wis foondit.
- 2005 - Protests in Belmopan, Belize, turn intae riots.
- 2009 - US Preses Barack Obama privately repeats the oath o affice wi Chief Juistice John Roberts, efter a slicht mishap the previous day.
- 2009 - Hillary Clinton becomes Unitit States Secretar o State.
- 2017 - Weemen's Mairch: Protesters tak tae the streets in 400 ceeties warldwide in protest agin newly inauguratit US Preses Donald Trump.
- 2019 - Newly-signed Cardiff City F.C. fitbawer Emiliano Sala an pilot David Ibbotson dee when the smaw plane they are traivellin in crashes intae the Inglis Chainel.
Births
- 1338 - Charles V o Fraunce (d. 1380)
- 1613 - George Gillespie, Scots theologian (d. 1648)
- 1675 - Princess Sibylla o Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1733)
- 1824 - Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general (d. 1863)
- 1829 - Oscar II o Swaden (d. 1907)
- 1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Roushie meestic (d. 1916)
- 1885 - Umberto Nobile, Italian aeronautical ingineer an splorer (d. 1978)
- 1905 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
- 1918 - Richard Winters, American paratrooper (d. 2011)
- 1922 - Telly Savalas, American actor an sangster (d. 1994)
- 1925 - Alex Forbes, Scots fitbawer (d. 2014)
- 1940 - Jack Nicklaus, American gowfer
- 1941 - Plácido Domingo, Spaingie tenor an conductor
- 1948 - Hamish McAlpine, Scots fitbawer
- 1951 - Eric Holder, American politeecian
- 1953 - Paul Allen, American entrepreneur (d. 2018)
- 1956 - Geena Davis, American actress
- 1959 - Alex McLeish, Scots fitbawer
- 1969 - Hardeep Singh Kohli, Scots comedian, presenter an writer
- 1971 - Martin Docherty-Hughes, Scots politeecian
- 1971 - Alan McManus, Scots snooker player
- 1976 - Emma Bunton, Inglis sangster
- 1977 - Phil Neville, Inglis fitbawer
- 1980 - Austin McCann, Scots fitbawer
- 1982 - Nicolas Mahut, French tennis player
- 1994 - Laura Robson, Australie-born Inglis tennis player
- 2004 - Princess Ingrid Alexandra o Norawa
Daiths
- 1118 - Pape Paschal II (b. 1050)
- 1774 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717)
- 1793 - Keeng Louis XVI o Fraunce (b. 1754)
- 1836 - Princess Maria Cristina o Savoy (b. 1812)
- 1883 - Prince Karl o Proushie (b. 1801)
- 1905 - Robert Brough, Scots penter (b. 1872)
- 1919 - George Strath, Scots gowfer (b. 1843)
- 1924 - Vladimir Lenin, Roushie revolutionary leader (b. 1870)
- 1945 - Andrew Thomas Gage, Scots botanist (b. 1871)
- 1950 - George Orwell, Inglis writer (b. 1903)
- 1959 - Cecil B. DeMille, American film director an producer (b. 1881)
- 2013 - Michael Winner, Inglis film director (b. 1935)
- 2015 - Leon Brittan, Inglis politeecian (b. 1939)
- 2019 - Prince Henri, Coont o Paris, Duke o Fraunce (b. 1933)
- 2019 - Emiliano Sala, Argentine fitbawer (b. 1990)
- 2020 - Terry Jones, Welsh actor, comedian, writer an presenter (b. 1942)
Halidays
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