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)