Frae Wikipedia, the free beuk o knawledge
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-tokyo
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
-
Placido 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
|
Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae
21 January
.
|