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 2009 : John Roberts an Barack Obama repeat the oath2017: Weemen's Mairch protests agin Donald Trump 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 Plácido Domingo Geena Davis 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 )
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