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

1793: Execution o Louis XVI o Fraunce

• 1643 - Abel Tasman reaches Tonga.
• 1793 - Execution o Louis XVI o Fraunce.
• 1793 - Roushie an Proushie split Poland.
• 1861 - Jefferson Davis resigns frae the Unitit States Senate.
• 1917 - A yirdquauk in Bali, Indonesie, kills 15,000 fowk.
• 1924 - Daith o Vladimir Lenin.
• 1925 - Albanie declares itself a republic.
• 1948 - The current Flag o Quebec is adoptit.
• 1976 - The commercial service o Concorde stairts.
• 1977 - US Preses Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all Vietnam War draft evaders.
• 1980 - The Great Waw o Cheenae is put under special protection.
• 2001 − Nisi-tôkyô wis foondit.
• 2005 - Protests in Belmopan, Belize, turn intae riots.

Births

Geena Davis

• 1338 - Charles V o Fraunce (d. 1380)
• 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)
• 1940 - Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
• 1941 - Placido Domingo, Spainyie tenor an conductor
• 1951 - Eric Holder, American politeecian
• 1956 - Geena Davis, American actress
• 1959 - Alex McLeish, Scots fitbawer
• 1976 - Emma Bunton, Inglis sangster

Daiths

• 1118 - Pape Paschal II (b. 1050)
• 1774 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717)
• 1793 - Keeng Louis XVI o Fraunce (b. 1754)
• 1924 - Vladimir Lenin, Roushie revolutionary leader (b. 1870)
• 1950 - George Orwell, Inglis writer (b. 1903)
• 2013 - Michael Winner, Inglis film director (b. 1935)
• 2015 - Leon Brittan, Inglis politeecian (b. 1939)

Halidays

• Flag Day (Quebec)