Historical Events In January - 21

1925  On this day in history albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe pres  

1925  Lola Flores, Cadiz Spain, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona) on January - 21.  

1926  On January - 21 belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties  

1926  On January - 21 franco Evangelisti, Italian composer  

1926  Camillo Golgi, Ital medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81 on January - 21.  

1927  The first national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago) on this day in history.  

1927  On January - 21 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)  

1927  Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65 on January - 21.  

1929  On this day in history robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London  

1931  On this day in history felix Blumenfeld, composer, dies at 67  

1932  USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty on January - 21.  

1932  On this day in history [Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at 51  

1935  The Wilderness Society founded on this day in history.  

1935  On this day in history 12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Wash (state record)  

1938  Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance on this day in history.  

1938  Dutch govt starts obligatory unemployment insurance on January - 21.  

1939  On January - 21 uS female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer  

1939  On January - 21 uS male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee  

1939  George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in NYC on January - 21.  

1940  Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship on this day in history.  

1941  Anti-Jewish riots take place in Rumania. Gangs of Rumanian Legionnaires hunt for Jews, loot and beat Jews in the street, desecrate 25 synagogues, destroy hundreds of homes and shops, and butcher hundreds of Jews on this day in history.  

1941  Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya on January - 21.  

1941  On January - 21 british communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned  

1941  On this day in history the birth of Placido Domingo, Spanish tenor  

1941  On this day in history the first anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria  

1941  On this day in history the first commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport TX  

1941  On this day in history 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria  

1942  Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal on this day in history.  

1942  Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump" on January - 21.  

1942  Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain on this day in history.  

1942  Tito's partisans occupy Foca on January - 21.  

1942  On January - 21 unified partisan organization is established in the Vilna ghetto. Resistance organization set upon Kovno ghetto.  

1942  Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72 on January - 21.  

1943  Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad on January - 21.  

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1337  Charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80) was born on this day in history.  

1338  On this day in history birth of king Charles V of France (d. 1380)  

1571  On this day in history birth of john I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam)  

1659  On this day in history birth of adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect  

1721  On this day in history birth of james Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)  

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

1743  On January - 21 birth of john Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)  

1746  Johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS] was born on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history paschalis II, [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies  

1519  Death of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475) on January - 21.  

1527  On this day in history death of juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (c. 1489)  

1546  On this day in history death of azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)  

1596  John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 on this day in history.