21 Januar

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 
 Banner Day (Quebec)

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