About January 21
January 21, 2021 is the 21st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 344 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 22 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 21
- 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.
- 1643 –Abel Tasman becomes the first European to reach Tonga.
- 1720 –Sweden and Prussia sign 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 of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
- 1840 –Jules Dumont d'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
- 1893 –The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
- 1899 –Opel manufactures its first automobile.
- 1915 –Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1925 –Albania declares itself a republic.
- 1954 –The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
- 1958 –The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashes, killing the pilot and winch-operator.
- 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.
- 1966 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 1976 –Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
- 2000 –Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutierrez, 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.
- 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.
- 2005 –In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government’s new taxes erupts into riots.
- 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 11 September 2001, and Asian stocks drop as much as 14%.
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