Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 21
This is a list of selected January 21 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Feast day of Saint Agnes (Christianity); | many paragraphs without citations |
| ; Flag Day in Quebec | refimprove section |
| 1326 – King Edward II of England issued a royal charter confirming Adam de Brome's foundation of Oriel College, Oxford. | primary sources |
| 1525 – The Anabaptist Movement was born when founders Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, and George Blaurock re-baptized each other and other followers in Zürich, Switzerland, believing that the Christian religious practice of infant baptism is invalid because a child cannot commit to a religious faith. | unreferenced section |
| 1793 – French Revolution: After being found guilty of treason by the National Convention, King Louis XVI was guillotined in front of a cheering crowd at the Place de la Révolution in Paris. | refimprove section |
| 1840 – The French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville discovered Adélie Land, Antarctica. | refimprove |
| 1893 – The Bechuanaland Protectorate (modern Botswana, then a protectorate of the United Kingdom) formally annexed the Tati Concessions Land, a portion of Matabeleland that had been conceded to the British South Africa Company. | refimprove section |
| 1912 – Raymond Poincaré, who would pursue hardline anti-German policies, began his first term as Prime Minister of France. | refimprove section |
| 1915 – Ensign Robert Webster Cary and Fireman Second Class Telesforo Trinidad both earned the Medal of Honor for actions aboard the USS San Diego | Cary: unreferenced section; Trinidad: short |
| 1915 – The first Kiwanis service club was founded in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. | primary sources |
| 1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs became the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. | unreferenced section |
| 1941 – World War II: Sparked by the murder of a German officer the previous day, members of the Iron Guard began a rebellion and pogrom in Bucharest, Romania. | page numbers needed |
| 1948 – The Flag of Quebec, featuring a white cross and four fleurs-de-lis on a blue field, was adopted and flown for the first time over the Quebec Parliament Building in Quebec City. | refimprove section |
| 1963 – Following a period of chaos in Congo-Léopoldville and United Nations intervention, the secession of Katanga came to an end. | refimprove |
| 2008 – The Eyak language in Alaska became extinct after Marie Smith Jones, the language's last native speaker, died, an event that became a symbol in the fight against language extinction. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1968 – Cold War: A B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear weapons crashed onto sea ice near Thule Air Base, Greenland, causing localized radioactive contamination.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: The Vietnamese People's Army attacked Khe Sanh Combat Base, a U.S. Marines outpost in Quảng Trị Province, South Vietnam, starting the Battle of Khe Sanh.
- 1976 – The Concorde supersonic transports began scheduled commercial flights to London, Paris, Bahrain, and Rio de Janeiro.
- 1981 – The DeLorean Motor Company completed the first production car of the DMC DeLorean.
- 1997 – The U.S. House of Representatives voted 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
- 2011 – Demonstrations in Tirana against alleged corruption in the Albanian government led to the killings of three protesters by the Republican Guard.
- Born/died this day: | Anna Morandi Manzolini |b|1714| Chaim of Volozhin |b|1749| Augustin Robespierre |b|1763| Yemelyan Pugachev |d|1775| John C. Frémont |b|1813| Joseph Wolf |b|1820| Eusapia Palladino |b|1854| Trương Tấn Sang |b|1949| Frances Gertrude McGill |d|1959| Cecil B. DeMille |d|1959| Freda Utley |d|1978
Members of the First Dáil
- 763 – The Abbasid Caliphate crushed the Alid revolt when a rebel leader was mortally wounded in battle near Basra in present-day Iraq.
- 1789 – The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel, was published.
- 1919 – The First Dáil (members pictured) convened at the Mansion House in Dublin and adopted a declaration of independence calling for the establishment of the Irish Republic.
- 1972 – Tripura, formerly part of the independent Twipra Kingdom, became a state of India.
- 2017 – An estimated five million people participated in worldwide demonstrations to advocate for legislation and policies on human rights and other issues.
- Theodor Fliedner (b. 1800)
- Edith Tolkien (b. 1889)
- Vincent Lingiari (d. 1988)
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