Notable Historical Events on January 21st
January 21st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1077 |
German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness |
1276 |
Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V |
1287 |
The treaty of San Agayz is signed. Minorca is conquered by King Alfons III of Aragon. |
1324 |
Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai & Shingon |
1522 |
Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope |
1525 |
The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born 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. |
1542 |
Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard |
1664 |
Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army |
1677 |
1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston |
1732 |
Russia & Persia sign Treaty of Riascha |
1749 |
The Verona Philharmonic Theatre was destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt in 1754. |
1789 |
1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published |
1793 |
Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty, dividing Poland. |
1793 |
Louis XVI of France is executed by the guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for high treason. |
1813 |
Pineapple introduced to Hawaii (or 01/111) |
1818 |
Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair" |
1821 |
Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die |
1824 |
Ashantis defeat British at Accra, West Africa |
1827 |
Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing |
1830 |
Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported |
1846 |
1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News" |
1853 |
Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Mass |
1861 |
Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign (U.S Civil War) |
1863 |
City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years |
1864 |
The Tauranga Campaign of the New Zealand Wars begins |
1874 |
Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Vienna |
1879 |
Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem," premieres in Copenhagen |
1880 |
1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis, Tennessee |
1887 |
Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms |
1887 |
Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city. |
1890 |
1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper |
1893 |
The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, was formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate which is now Botswana. |
1894 |
Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 sec |
1899 |
Opel manufactured its first automobile. |
1900 |
The second contingent of Canadian troops sails from Halifax to fight in South Africa against the Boers |
1901 |
Clyde Fitch's "Climbers," premieres in NYC |
1903 |
"Wizard of Oz," premieres in NYC |
1903 |
Harry Houdini escapes from Halvemaansteeg police station in Amsterdam |
1903 |
International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle NYC |
1904 |
Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," premieres in Brno |
1907 |
Kenora Thistles sweep Mont Wanderers in 2 for Stanley Cup |
1908 |
August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten," premieres in Stockholm |
1908 |
NYC regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public |
1910 |
British-Russian military intervention in Persia |
1913 |
Aristide Briand forms French government |
1915 |
Kiwanis International founded in Detroit |
1919 |
Sinn Fein creates its own Free Irish parliament (dáil eireann) in Dublin, which brought about the Irish War of Independence. |
1920 |
14th Davis Cup: Australasia beats Great Britain in Sydney (4-1) |
1921 |
The Italian Communist Party was founded at Livorno. |
1922 |
1st slalom ski race run, Murren, Switzerland |
1925 |
Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe president |
1926 |
Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties |
1927 |
1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago) |
1929 |
Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London |
1932 |
USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty |
1935 |
12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Wash (state record) |
1935 |
WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ) |
1935 |
Wilderness Society incorporated in USA |
1938 |
Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance |
1939 |
George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in NYC |
1939 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer |
1939 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
1940 |
Foreign correspondents in Netherlands subjected to censorship |
1941 |
1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria |
1941 |
1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX |
1941 |
Australian and British troops attack Tobruk, Libya |
1941 |
British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned |
1942 |
Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal |
1942 |
Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump" |
1942 |
Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain |
1942 |
Tito's partisans occupy Foca |
1943 |
Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk |
1943 |
Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad |
1943 |
Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Royal Navy, promoted to Admiral of the Fleet |
1944 |
447 German bombers attack London |
1944 |
649 British bombers attack Magdeburg |
1945 |
British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma |
1946 |
"Nellie Bly" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 16 performances |
1947 |
"Sweethearts" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 288 performances |
1947 |
Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel |
1948 |
W Indies v England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes & Jim Laker |
1949 |
1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman) |
1950 |
"Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater NYC after 460 performances |
1950 |
NY jury finds former State Dept official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury |
1950 |
T. S. Eliot's "Cocktail Party," premieres in NYC |
1951 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open |
1952 |
Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India |
1953 |
John Foster Dulles appointed as US Secretary of State |
1954 |
1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (NYC) |
1954 |
USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, launched on the Thames, Connecticut. |
1956 |
"Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden NYC after 849 perfs |
1956 |
William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker |
1957 |
KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
Phillies agree to televise 78 games into NYC (doesn't happen) |
1960 |
Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km |
1960 |
Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook, South Africa; 417 die of methane poisoning |
1961 |
"Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 8 performances |
1961 |
KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls, ID (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1961 |
Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria |
1962 |
JFK arrives in Uruguay |
1962 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational |
1962 |
Snow falls in San Francisco |
1964 |
Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency |
1965 |
Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured |
1967 |
AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-23 |
1967 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
1967 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti |
1968 |
AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24 |
1968 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20 |
1968 |
US B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb on board crashes in Greenland |
1968 |
Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins. |
1969 |
22nd NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 3-3 at Montreal |
1970 |
PanAm Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London |
1971 |
"Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV |
1972 |
Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh terr |
1972 |
Belgian government of Eyskens-Cools forms |
1972 |
Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union |
1972 |
Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory |
1972 |
Tripura becomes a full-fledged state in India. |
1973 |
3rd NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 33-28 |
1973 |
Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger" |
1974 |
Gold hits record $161.31/silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London |
1975 |
28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal |
1976 |
Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France |
1977 |
Italy legalizes abortion |
1977 |
US President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders |
1978 |
Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks |
1979 |
Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer) |
1979 |
Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz |
1979 |
Super Bowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB |
1980 |
Gold hits record $850 an ounce |
1980 |
Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal |
1981 |
"Shakespeare's Cabaret" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 54 performances |
1981 |
Bernhard Goetz is assault for 1st time on a NY subway train |
1981 |
Norman Stronge and his son James (both former Ulster Unionist Members of Parliament) are assassinated by the Irish Republican Army at their home Tynan Abbey, which is then burnt down |
1982 |
"Little Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 36 performances |
1982 |
NY Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak |
1983 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht |
1983 |
President Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid |
1984 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
1985 |
-19°F (-28°C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record) |
1985 |
-34°F (-37°C), Mt Mitchell, North Carolina (state record) |
1985 |
Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java |
1985 |
Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals |
1986 |
100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38°F (3°C), Indiana |
1986 |
Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA |
1986 |
Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed |
1987 |
BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to U of Mississippi |
1987 |
B.B. King is inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" |
1987 |
Muddy Waters is inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" |
1988 |
US accepts immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children |
1989 |
A woman is assaulted & raped in room of an Oklahoma football player |
1989 |
Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer |
1990 |
41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh |
1990 |
Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association exec director |
1990 |
John McEnroe becomes 1st ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open |
1990 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic |
1991 |
CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf |
1992 |
Bill Cowher becomes the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, becoming only the second head coach of the team since 1970 (Chuck Noll) |
1993 |
Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77 |
1993 |
Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder |
1994 |
Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20) |
1994 |
Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane when she cut off her husband's penis |
1995 |
52th Golden Globes: Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange |
1996 |
53th Golden Globes: Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta |
1996 |
Karrie Webb wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament |
1996 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo |
1998 |
Pope John Paul II visits Cuba |
1999 |
In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the US Coast Guard intercepts a ship carrying 4,300 kg of cocaine. |
2002 |
The Canadian Dollar sets all-time low against the US Dollar (US$0.6179). |
2004 |
Canada: The residence of reporter Juliet O'Neill is searched by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar. |
2004 |
NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies with Flash Memory management and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6. |
2005 |
In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots. |
2007 |
Awashima Marine Park in Japan catches a video tape of the rare frilled shark. |
2008 |
Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%. |
2008 |
The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last native speaker dies. |
2013 |
30 people are killed in a car bombing in Salamiyeh, Syria |
2013 |
41 people are injured after two trains collide in Vienna, Austria |
2013 |
18 people are killed and 24 are injured after a bus falls down a ravine in Yungas, Bolivia |
2013 |
1 person is killed and 15 are injured by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Indonesia |
2013 |
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Netherlands' Minister of Finance, becomes the President of the Euro Group |
2016 |
Putin 'Probably Approved' Litvinenko Poisoning, British Inquiry Says |
2016 |
Explosion in Egypt kills at least 6, including police officers |
2018 |
US Senate to continue working to end government shutdown |
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