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January 21, today in history

memorabilia

13th century

1276: Northon V becomes 186th Pope.

18th century

1793: King Louis XVI of France is sent to the guillotine by the National Convention for treason.

19th century

1862: The German automobile manufacturing company Opel AG is founded as a factory for sewing machines, and it is not until 37 years later that the production of cars begins.

1900: Canadian troops depart for South Africa to participate in the Boer War.

20th century

1922: The first steeplechase in history is held in Müllen, Switzerland.

1927: Pago replaces the krone as the currency of Hungary.

1930 Domingos Oliveira becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.

1937: The University of the Anti-Japanese Red Army was renamed the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University.

In 1949:

Chiang Kai-shek announced his retirement from The President of the Republic of China, and was represented by Li Zongren.

During the Battle of Pingjin, Fu Zuoyi negotiated with the People's Liberation Army an agreement on the peaceful settlement of the Peiping issue.

In 1951:

The eruption of Lamington Volcano in the northern province of Papua New Guinea killed nearly 3,000 people.

1954: The world's first nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus, is launched in New London County, Connecticut.

1964: The Hukou Mutiny in Taiwan.

In 1968:

Blue House Incident: North Korean agents attempt to attack President Park Chung-hee of the Republic of Korea.

A U.S. B-52 bomber carrying a hydrogen bomb crashed in Greenland, causing widespread radioactive contamination.

1976: Concorde supersonic aircraft enter commercial flights for the first time, with British Airways flying first from London to Bahrain and Air France from Paris to Rio de Janeiro.

1985: The government of the People's Republic of China designates September 10 as Teachers' Day every year.

1989: The Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party renounces its constitutionally guaranteed status as the sole leading party.

1996: Beijing West Railway Station was officially put into operation.

2000: Madrid, Spain, is attacked by two ETA car bombs.

21st century

2001: Arroyo, the new president of the Philippines, forms a new government.

2009: Steven Chu takes over as U.S. Secretary of Energy, the first Minister of Asian Descent and the first Nobel Laureate to serve as a Cabinet Minister.

2005: Riots in Belize turn into riots in the capital, Belmopan.

born

1337: Charles V, King of the Valois dynasty of France (d. 1381)

1810: Ma Gong, first Assistant Secretary of Hong Kong (died 1888)

1869: Rasputin, Russian mystic (died 1916)

1885 - Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese Army General (died 1948)

1896: Binchen, Hong Kong Manager of The Lee Bank, President of the Hong Kong Jockey Club of the Crown (died 1972)

1932: Zhang Lu, Chinese and Hong Kong singer (died 2009)

1940 Jack Nicklaus, American professional golfer

1941: Placido Domingo, tenor of Spanish opera

1944: Liu Sifen, Chinese writer and painter

1948: Wen Shiren, Taiwanese entrepreneur (died 2003)

1950: Gary Locke, Chinese-American politician

1952: Lau Wai Ching, Hong Kong politician

1953: Paul Allen, American entrepreneur (died 2018)

1960: Akira Nagano, Japanese manga artist

1963: Olajuwon, African-American basketball player

1963: Lee Chan Wing, Hong Kong host

1967: Goro Miyazaki, Japanese urban design consultant and animation director

1968: Chen Qifeng, Taiwanese baseball coach

1969: Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist

1971: Chen Songling, Hong Kong singer and artist

1972: Yasunori Mitsuda, Nihon Otsaku artist, composer

1974 Koji Yano, Japanese enjo

1975 : Beiter, English footballer

1976 Igors Stepanovs, Latvian footballer

1980: Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actor and singer

1980: Amanda Strang, Hong Kong model

1981: Wu Hanxiong, Chinese fencer

1981: Chung Shin-tong, member of the Hong Kong girl idol group Twins

1981: Andy, member of the Korean boy idol group Shinigami

1985: Sasha Bevovalova, Russian supermodel

1985: Yuki Hara, Japanese female voice actress

1985: Takata Yamamura, lead singer of the Japanese band Flumpol

1986: Susa Singh Rajput, Indian actor

1988: Ashton Eaton, winner of the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in ten mixed sports

1991: Cho So-heung, South Korean actress

1994: Laura Robson, British tennis player

1994: Kang Seung-yoon, captain of the Korean boy idol group WINNER

1994: Kim Yee-rin, Korean singer

1997: Zhang Qiongyu, member of the Chinese girl idol group GNZ48

1997: Lui Jue-an, member of the Hong Kong boy band MIRARROR

2004: Ingrid Alessandra, Princess of Norway

die

1793: Louis XVI, King of France (born 1754)

1862 – Borgina Niemskova, Czech novelist and feminist, holds austrian Imperial citizenship (born 1820)

1892 : John Cauchy Adams, English mathematician, astronomer, one of the discoverers of Neptune (born 1819)

1919: Lee Hee, 26th monarch of Lee Joseon (b. 1852)

1924: Lenin, Statesman of the Soviet Union (born 1870)

1950: George Orwell, British writer (born 1903)

2000: He Yingjie, Entrepreneur of Hong Kong, China (born 1911)

2006: Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo, 61 years old (born 1944)

2006: Zeng Qiukun, the second Chinese aristocrat in the United Kingdom (born in 1940)

2015: Chen Shunchen, Japanese-Taiwanese writer (b. 1924)

2018: Yao Ming, Chinese composer (b. 1947)

2019: Imeriano Sana, Argentine professional footballer (born 1990)