January 21st Events |
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| January 21st, 2008 (January 21 2008) | Event | Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%. | |
| January 21st, 2008 (January 21 2008) | Event | The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last native speaker dies. | |
| January 21st, 2007 (January 21 2007) | Event | Awashima Marine Park in Japan catches a video tape of the rare frilled shark. | |
| January 21st, 2005 (January 21 2005) | Event | In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government s new taxes erupts into riots. | |
| January 21st, 2004 (January 21 2004) | Event | Canada: The residence of reporter Juliet O Neill is searched by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar. | |
| January 21st, 2004 (January 21 2004) | Event | NASA s MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies with Flash Memory management and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6. | |
| January 21st, 2002 (January 21 2002) | Event | The Canadian Dollar sets all-time low against the US Dollar (US$0.6179). | |
| January 21st, 1999 (January 21 1999) | Event | War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kg (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board. | |
| January 21st, 1997 (January 21 1997) | Event | Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct. | |
| January 21st, 1985 (January 21 1985) | Event | Because January 20 had fallen on a Sunday, Ronald Reagan s public inaugural ceremony (for his second term as President) was moved to Monday, January 21. Due to bad weather, the ceremony was held indoors in the United States Capital Rotunda.[1] | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| January 21st, 1977 (January 21 1977) | Event | President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada. | Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| January 21st, 1976 (January 21 1976) | Event | Commercial service of Concorde begins with London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes. | |
| January 21st, 1972 (January 21 1972) | Event | Tripura becomes a full-fledged state in India. | |
| January 21st, 1969 (January 21 1969) | Event | An experimental underground nuclear reactor at Lucens Vad, Switzerland, released radiation into a cavern, which was then sealed. | |
| January 21st, 1968 (January 21 1968) | Event | Vietnam War: Battle of Khe SanhOne of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins. | |
| January 21st, 1958 (January 21 1958) | Event | The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashed, killing the pilot and winch-operator. | |
| January 21st, 1954 (January 21 1954) | Event | The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States. | |
| January 21st, 1950 (January 21 1950) | Event | Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury. | |
| January 21st, 1948 (January 21 1948) | Event | The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time, over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quebec Flag Day. | |
| January 21st, 1941 (January 21 1941) | Event | World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya. | |
| January 21st, 1925 (January 21 1925) | Event | Albania declares itself a republic. | |
| January 21st, 1924 (January 21 1924) | Event | Vladimir Lenin dies; a lengthy power struggle emerges between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin begins, culminating to the latter s consolidation of power c. 1928. | Vladimir Lenin Quotes |
| January 21st, 1921 (January 21 1921) | Event | The Italian Communist Party was founded at Livorno. | |
| January 21st, 1919 (January 21 1919) | Event | Meeting of the First Dail Eireann in the Mansion House Dublin, Sinn Fein adopts Ireland s first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary. | |
| January 21st, 1915 (January 21 1915) | Event | Kiwanis International was founded in Detroit, Michigan. | |
| January 21st, 1911 (January 21 1911) | Event | The first Monte Carlo Rally. | |
| January 21st, 1908 (January 21 1908) | Event | New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor. | |
| January 21st, 1899 (January 21 1899) | Event | Opel manufactured its first automobile. | |
| January 21st, 1893 (January 21 1893) | Event | The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, was formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate which is now Botswana. | |
| January 21st, 1887 (January 21 1887) | Event | Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city. | |
| January 21st, 1864 (January 21 1864) | Event | The Tauranga Campaign starts during the Maori Wars. | |
| January 21st, 1861 (January 21 1861) | Event | American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate. | |
| January 21st, 1793 (January 21 1793) | Event | After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France was executed by the guillotine. | |
| January 21st, 1789 (January 21 1789) | Event | The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
| January 21st, 1749 (January 21 1749) | Event | The Verona Philharmonic Theatre was destoyed by fire. It was rebuilt in 1754. | |
| January 21st, 1720 (January 21 1720) | Event | Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm. | |
| January 21st, 1643 (January 21 1643) | Event | Abel Tasman was the first European to reach Tonga. | |
| January 21st, 1525 (January 21 1525) | Event | The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz s mother in Zurich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. | |
| January 21st, 1287 (January 21 1287) | Event | The treaty of San Agayz is signedied in Minorca is conquered by King Alfons III of Aragon. | |
| January 21st, 1189 (January 21 1189) | Event | Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade. | |
