The 21st of JANUARY HiSTORY TiMELiNE
1720 – Sweden and Prussia signed the Treaty of Stockholm. It was one of two treaties signed to end the Great Northern War.
1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally took place. Albert I, Prince of Monaco commanded The Automobile Club de Monaco to start planning a car rally in 1909.
1925 – Albania declared itself a republic.
1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs was sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
1954 – USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine was launched by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of USA, in Groton, Connecticut.
1960 – Little Joe 1B Mercury spacecraft was launched from Virginia with a monkey on board. Miss Sam the Rheses monkey survived the 8 minute flight from Wallops Island in good condition.
1960 – Avianca Flight 671 crashed and burned on landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica airport. 37 people died, and 9 people survived the crash.
1960 – A coal mine collapsed at Holly Country, South Africa, causing the death of 435 miners.
1968 – Vietnam War started with the Battle of Khe Sanh.
1971 – The Emley Moor transmitting station in the UK began transmitting UHF broadcasts. It is the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, with a total tower height of 330 metres (1084 feet). Google Street View
1976 – Commercial service of Concorde began with the commencement the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio route.
1981 – DeLorean sports car production began began in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.
1999 – The War on Drugs had one of the largest drug busts in American history when the United States Coast Guard intercepted a ship with cocaine on board, with a weight over 4,300 kilograms (9500 pounds).
2003 – 7.6 magnitude earthquake shook the state of Colima, in Mexico, and killed 29 people, and also caused approximately 10,000 homeless people.
2004 – The Mars Rover Spirit : NASA’s MER-A ceased communication with mission control. The problem was the management of its flash memory, but was later fixed remotely from Earth on 6th February.
2017 – A large-scale women’s march in over 400 cities around the World began on Donald Trump’s first day as President of the United States.
2018 – Rocket Lab’s Electron became the first rocket to reach orbit using an electric pump-fed engine.
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Today in History video for January 21st features: 1793: King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine | 1924: Vladimir Lenin died | 1950: Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury | 1977: President of the United States Jimmy Carter pardoned American Vietnam War draft evaders | 1976: Commercial service of Concorde began | Count Bassie recorded “One O’Clock Jump”…
Special Days on the 21st January
National Hugging Day is an annual event in USA, created by Kevin Zaborney on the 21st January 1986, in Clio, Michigan.
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