21 January

January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 344 days remaining (345 in leap years).

Events

1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
1276 - Innocent V becomes Pope.
1643 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga.
1720 - Sweden and Prussia signs the Treaty of Stockholm.
1789 - The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1793 - After being found guilty for treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is guillotined.
1793 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
1853 - Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope folding machine.
1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
1864 - The Tauranga Campaign starts during the Maori Wars.
1887 - The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed.
1899 - Opel Motors opens for business.
1908 - New York City passes a law, the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public only to be vetoed by the mayor.
1911 - The first Monte Carlo motor rally.
1915 - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit, Michigan.
1919 - Meeting in Dublin, the Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution.
1924 - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
1925 - Albania declares itself a republic.

1941 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
1950 - Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
1954 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut.
1968 - Simon & Garfunkel release the Original Soundtrack to The Graduate, which quickly goes to #1 on the pop charts and which will bring Simon a Grammy for Best Original Score.
1969 - An experimental underground nuclear reactor at Lucens Vad, Switzerland, released radiation into a cavern, which was then sealed.
1976 - The first commercial service Concorde flight took off.
1977 - President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all Vietnam War draft evaders.
1994 - Lorena Bobbitt is found not-guilty by reason of temporary insanity for severing the penis of her husband John.
1997 - Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
1999 - War on Drugs:In one of the one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4,309 kg) of cocaine aboard.
2003 - The terms of Kevin Mitnick's parole allow him to use a computer again.
2004 - Canada: The residence of reporter, Juliet O'Neill was searched by the RCMP investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar.
2004 - NASA's MER-A (Mars Rover) had too many open files for the flash memory; the robotic Rover froze in mid-motion; the problem was fixed remotely from Earth.


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