Historical Events In January - 21

1977  On January - 21 president Carter pardoned American Vietnam War-era draft evaders and ordered a case-by-case study of deserters.  

1977  On January - 21 president Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders  

1977  U.S. Presient Jimmy Carter provides a presidential pardon to most Vietnam War draft dodgers on January - 21.  

1977  On January - 21 john Vincent, composer, dies at 74  

1978  On January - 21 bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks  

1979  Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer) on January - 21.  

1979  On this day in history price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce  

1980  On this day in history canada expels three diplomats from the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa for spying; caught buying secret information from an American citizen in Ottawa.  

1980  Gold hits record $850 an ounce on January - 21.  

1980  Gold reaches intra-day historic high price of $870 in New York on this day in history.  

1981  Bernhard Goetz is assaulted for first time on a New York subway train on January - 21.  

1981  Allyn Joslyn, actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society), dies at 79 on January - 21.  

1983  On this day in history bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht  

1983  On this day in history in Regina Saskatchewan Joanne Wilson found murdered in her garage; ex-wife of politician Colin Thatcher, son of ex-Premier Ross Thatcher, who will be found guilty of first-degree murder  

1983  Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid on January - 21.  

1984  On January - 21 uS male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton  

1984  Jackie Wilson, US singer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), dies at 49 on this day in history.  

1985  -19ºF (-28ºC), Caesar's Head SC (state record) on January - 21.  

1985  -34ºF (-37ºC), Mt Mitchell NC (state record) on this day in history.  

1985  On January - 21 bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java  

1985  Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals on January - 21.  

1985  On January - 21 barbara Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills), dies of emphysema  

1986  100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38ºF (3ºC), Indiana on this day in history.  

1986  Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA on this day in history.  

1986  Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed on January - 21.  

1987  Archbishop's envoy Terry Waite disappears in Lebanon on January - 21.  

1987  BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to University of Mississippi on January - 21.  

1987  Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (7th Day), dies at 83 on January - 21.  

1988  US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children on January - 21.  

1988  Abraham Sofaer, actor (Naked Jungle, Elephant Walk), dies on January - 21.  

1989  On January - 21 a woman is assaulted & raped in the room of an Oklahoma football player  

1989  In St John's Newfoundland Tory Brian Peckford resigns after 10 years as Newfoundland Premier; replaced by Clyde Wells after election on this day in history.  

1990  On January - 21 bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director  

1990  On this day in history washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry said he would seek help but did not publicly concede he had used illegal drugs. He left the next day for a treatment program in Florida.  

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1337  On this day in history birth of charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80)  

1338  King Charles V of France (d. 1380) was born on this day in history.  

1571  John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam) was born on January - 21.  

1659  On January - 21 birth of adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect  

1721  James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794) was born on January - 21.  

1735  Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer was born on this day in history.  

1743  On this day in history birth of john Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)  

1746  On January - 21 birth of johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS]  

0304  On this day in history death of saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291)  

0879  Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies on this day in history.  

0917  Death of Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880) on this day in history.  

1118  Paschalis II, [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies on this day in history.  

1519  On this day in history death of vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)  

1527  Death of Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (c. 1489) on January - 21.  

1546  On January - 21 death of azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)  

1596  John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 on January - 21.