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Wednesday, 21 January 2026
1971 Percy Holmes, cricketer (Yorks opener, 7 Tests for Eng 1921-32), dies. 
1975 Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die
1976 The unmanned NASA spacecraft Viking Two makes a successful Mars landing to begin its mission of sending color photos back to Earth.
1976 The US spacecraft Viking 2 successfully lands on Mars
1978 Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29.
1978 Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff.
1979 Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm results in the deaths of over 1000
1980 Barbara O'Neil, actress (Tower of London, Stella Dallas).
1981 David Brinkley ends 38 years with NBC News as anchor and commentator, only to jump ship to rival network ABC.
1982 Della Chiesa, Italian general/mafia fighter, murdered.
1984 In this year, 28 year old Chicagoan claims $40 million in Illinois state lottery
1984 Arthur Schwartz, producer (Inside USA with Chevrolet), dies at 83.
1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth.
1985 Joe Jones, drummer, dies at 73.
1987 Morton Feldman, US composer, dies at 61
1988 Heidi Ittermann was born!
1989 A Cuban jetliner crashes shortly after takeoff in Havana, killing 152 people.
1990 A Florida dentist dies of AIDS after allegedly infecting five of his patients with the AIDS virus.
1990 David Acer, Florida dentist, dies of AIDs after infecting 5 patients.
1991 Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94.
1992 Johannes van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Born 4/22/1884), dies
1993 Leon Liebgold, Pol/US actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83.
1994 China and Russia agree to a non-aggression pact.
1994 Billy Wright, English soccer player (World Champion 1950), dies at 70.
2005 William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, dies.
2006 Andre Agassi retires after his final tennis match against Benjamin Becker in the U.S. Open.
2006 In this year, Spain claims the 2006 FIBA World Championship.
2007 British troops withdraw from the Basra region of Iraq.
2012 3 people are killed and 19 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
2013 15 militants are killed by an Egyptian Army helicopter in Sinai Peninsula.
2017 Californian governor Jerry Brown issues state of emergency due to La Tuna brush fire near Los Angeles.
2017 1.4 ton WWII bomb defused in Frankfurt, Germany with 60000 people evacuated, the largest postwar.
2017 North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test
2018 Argentine President Mauricio Macri announces new austerity measures including closing half of all government ministries in televised address
