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Events on the 21st of January in history

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21 Jan 0763 The Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa ends in a decisive Abbasid victory.
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21 Jan 1077 German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
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21 Jan 1189 Philip II, Henry II & Richard Lion-Hearted initiate 3rd Crusade
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21 Jan 1276 Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocent V
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21 Jan 1324 Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai & Shingon
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21 Jan 1522 Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
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21 Jan 1525 The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
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21 Jan 1535 Following the Affair of the Placards, French Protestants are burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris
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21 Jan 1542 Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard
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21 Jan 1604 Tsar Ivan IV defeats the False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar
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21 Jan 1664 Count Mikl
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21 Jan 1677 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
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21 Jan 1720 Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
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21 Jan 1732 Russia & Persia sign Treaty of Riascha
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21 Jan 1749 The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.
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21 Jan 1774 Abdul Hamid I became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
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21 Jan 1789 The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston.
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21 Jan 1789 1st American novel, WH Brown's "The Power of Sympathy", is published
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21 Jan 1793 After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
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21 Jan 1793 Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)
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21 Jan 1799 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
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21 Jan 1813 Pineapple introduced to Hawaii (or 01 / 111)
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21 Jan 1818 Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
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21 Jan 1821 Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die
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21 Jan 1824 Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
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21 Jan 1827 Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing
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21 Jan 1830 Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported
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21 Jan 1840 Jules Dumont d'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica.
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21 Jan 1846 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
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21 Jan 1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Massachusetts
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21 Jan 1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
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21 Jan 1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign
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21 Jan 1863 City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
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21 Jan 1864 The Tauranga Campaign begins during the New Zealand Wars.
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21 Jan 1874 Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa" premieres in Vienna
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21 Jan 1879 Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem" premieres in Copenhagen
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21 Jan 1880 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis TN
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21 Jan 1887 A total of 465 millimetres (18.3 in) rain falls in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city.
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21 Jan 1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
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21 Jan 1890 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper
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21 Jan 1893 The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
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21 Jan 1894 Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 seconds
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21 Jan 1899 Opel manufactures its first automobile.
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21 Jan 1901 Clyde Fitch's "Climbers" premieres in New York City NY
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21 Jan 1903 "Wizard of Oz, " premieres in New York City
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21 Jan 1903 "Wizard of Oz" premieres in New York City NY
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21 Jan 1903 Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
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21 Jan 1903 International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle New York City NY
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21 Jan 1904 Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa" premieres in Brno Czechoslovakia
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21 Jan 1907 Kenora Thistles sweep Montana Wanderers in 2 for the Stanley Cup
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21 Jan 1908 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.
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21 Jan 1908 New York City NY regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
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21 Jan 1908 August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten" premieres in Stockholm
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21 Jan 1910 British-Russian military intervention in Persia
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21 Jan 1911 The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
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21 Jan 1913 Aristide Briand forms French government
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21 Jan 1915 Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
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21 Jan 1919 Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
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21 Jan 1919 Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland
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21 Jan 1922 1st slalom ski race run, M
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21 Jan 1925 Albania declares itself a republic.
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21 Jan 1925 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe President
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21 Jan 1926 Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties
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21 Jan 1927 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
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21 Jan 1929 Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End" premieres in London
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21 Jan 1931 Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
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21 Jan 1932 USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty
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21 Jan 1935 12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Washington (state record)
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21 Jan 1935 Wilderness Society forms
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21 Jan 1935 The Wilderness Society is founded
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21 Jan 1935 WFI-AM in Philadelphia PA merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)
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21 Jan 1938 Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance
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21 Jan 1939 George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "American Way" premieres in New York City NY
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21 Jan 1939 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
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21 Jan 1940 Foreign correspondents in the Netherlands under censorship
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21 Jan 1941 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, Texas
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21 Jan 1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
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21 Jan 1941 Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania, the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews.
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21 Jan 1941 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
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21 Jan 1941 Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya
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21 Jan 1942 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
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21 Jan 1942 Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
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21 Jan 1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
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21 Jan 1942 Tito's partisans occupy Foca
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21 Jan 1943 Vice-admiral Cunningham appointed British Admiral of the Fleet
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21 Jan 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
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21 Jan 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk
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21 Jan 1944 447 German bombers attack London
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21 Jan 1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg
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21 Jan 1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
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21 Jan 1946 "Nellie Bly" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 16 performances
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21 Jan 1946 "Nellie Bly" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City NY for 16 performances
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21 Jan 1947 "Sweethearts" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 288 performances
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21 Jan 1947 "Sweethearts" opens at Shubert Theater New York City NY for 288 performances
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21 Jan 1947 Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel
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21 Jan 1948 West Indies vs. England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes and Jim Laker
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21 Jan 1948 The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Québec Flag Day.
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21 Jan 1949 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)
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21 Jan 1950 "Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater NYC after 460 performances
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21 Jan 1950 American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
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21 Jan 1950 New York jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury
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21 Jan 1950 "Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater New York City NY after 460 performances
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21 Jan 1950 T S Eliot's "Cocktail Party" premieres in New York City NY
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21 Jan 1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
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21 Jan 1952 Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
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21 Jan 1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State
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21 Jan 1954 The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
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21 Jan 1954 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City NY)
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21 Jan 1954 1st atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, launched on Thames River, christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower
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21 Jan 1956 "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden NYC after 849 performances
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21 Jan 1956 William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of the New Yorker
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21 Jan 1956 "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden New York City NY after 849 performances
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21 Jan 1957 KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
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21 Jan 1958 The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashes, killing the pilot and winch-operator.
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21 Jan 1958 KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
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21 Jan 1958 Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City NY (doesn't happen)
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21 Jan 1960 Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37. It is the worst air disaster in Jamaica's history and the first for Avianca.
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21 Jan 1960 Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
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21 Jan 1960 Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km
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21 Jan 1960 Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning
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21 Jan 1961 "Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 8 performances
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21 Jan 1961 Four hundred thirty-five workers are buried alive when a mine in Coalbrook, Free State collapses.
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21 Jan 1961 Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria
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21 Jan 1961 "Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater New York City NY after 8 performances
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21 Jan 1961 KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls ID (NBC) begins broadcasting
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21 Jan 1962 Snow falls in San Francisco
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21 Jan 1962 JFK arrives in Uruguay
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21 Jan 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
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21 Jan 1964 Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency
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21 Jan 1965 Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured
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21 Jan 1966 Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd
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21 Jan 1967 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
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21 Jan 1967 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
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21 Jan 1968 A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
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21 Jan 1968 Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
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21 Jan 1968 AFL Pro Bowl East beats West 25-24
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21 Jan 1968 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 38-20
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21 Jan 1968 US B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland
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21 Jan 1969 22nd NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 3-3 at Montreal
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21 Jan 1970 Panama Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London
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21 Jan 1971 "Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV
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21 Jan 1971 The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts.
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21 Jan 1971 "Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV
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21 Jan 1972 Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh territory
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21 Jan 1972 Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union
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21 Jan 1972 Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory
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21 Jan 1972 Belgium government of Eyskens-Cools forms
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21 Jan 1973 Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"
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21 Jan 1973 3rd NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 33-28
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21 Jan 1974 Gold hits record $161.31 / silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London
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21 Jan 1974 Gold hits record $161.31 an ounce in London
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21 Jan 1974 Silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London
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21 Jan 1975 28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal
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21 Jan 1976 Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
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21 Jan 1976 Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France
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21 Jan 1977 United States President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
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21 Jan 1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
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21 Jan 1977 Italy legalizes abortion
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21 Jan 1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
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21 Jan 1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
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21 Jan 1979 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce
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21 Jan 1979 Super Bowl XIII Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, Quarterback
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21 Jan 1980 Gold hits record $850 an ounce
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21 Jan 1980 Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal
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21 Jan 1981 Production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.
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21 Jan 1981 Bernhard Goetz is assaulted for 1st time on a New York subway train
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21 Jan 1981 "Shakespeare's Cabaret" opens at Bijou Theater New York City NY for 54 performances
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21 Jan 1982 "Little Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City NY for 36 performances
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21 Jan 1982 New York Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak
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21 Jan 1983 Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid
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21 Jan 1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht
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21 Jan 1984 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
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21 Jan 1985 -19
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21 Jan 1985 -34
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21 Jan 1985 Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals
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21 Jan 1985 Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java
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21 Jan 1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38
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21 Jan 1986 Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA
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21 Jan 1986 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed
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21 Jan 1987 Archbishop's envoy Terry Waite disappears in Lebanon
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21 Jan 1987 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to University of Mississippi
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21 Jan 1988 US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
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21 Jan 1989 A woman is assaulted & raped in the room of an Oklahoma football player
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21 Jan 1989 Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
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21 Jan 1990 John McEnroe becomes 1st ever expelled from Australian Open; for
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21 Jan 1990 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director
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21 Jan 1990 John McEnroe becomes the 1st ever expelled from the Australian Open for throwing a tantrum & swearing at an official
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21 Jan 1990 41st NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh
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21 Jan 1990 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
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21 Jan 1991 CBS News correspondent Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf
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21 Jan 1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6 38.77
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21 Jan 1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder
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21 Jan 1994 Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)
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21 Jan 1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane for chopping off spouse's penis
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21 Jan 1995 52th Golden Globes Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange, Brad Pitt
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21 Jan 1996 53th Golden Globes Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta
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21 Jan 1996 Karrie Webb wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
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21 Jan 1996 US male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo
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21 Jan 1997 The U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
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21 Jan 1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba
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21 Jan 1999 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 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
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21 Jan 2000 Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
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21 Jan 2003 A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless.
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21 Jan 2004 NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
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21 Jan 2005 In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
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