Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 21

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  Spire of Dublin
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  Flag of Quebec
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  Louis XVI of France
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  Louis XVI of France
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  Louis XVI of France
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  Louis XVI of France
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  Concorde
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  Concorde
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  DMC DeLorean
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  Raymond Poincaré
• Saint Agnes, c. 1531
  Saint Agnes, c. 1531
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  Sir Isaac Isaacs
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  Newt Gingrich
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  U.S. Army soldiers moving towards Khe Sanh Combat Base
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  Women's March participants in Porto, Portugal
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  Members of the First Dáil

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Blurb	Reason
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
1789 – The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel, was published.	Too much uncited
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 Template:USS	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
Anna Morandi Manzolini |b|1714|	Birthday not cited

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• 763 – The Abbasid Caliphate crushed the Alid revolt when a rebel leader was mortally wounded in battle near Basra in present-day Iraq.
• 1757 – French and Indian War: French regulars, Canadien militia and Indigenous forces ambushed Rogers' Rangers forces in the Battle on Snowshoes.
• 1968 – A [[Boeing B-52 Stratofortress|Template:Nowrap 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 at its factory in Northern Ireland.
• 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.
• 2003 - The Spire of Dublin was completed.
• 2011 – Demonstrations in Tirana against alleged corruption in the Albanian government led to the killings of four protesters by the Republican Guard.
• Born/died this day: | Augustin Robespierre |b|1763| Yemelyan Pugachev |d|1775| Theodor Fliedner |b|1800| John C. Frémont |b|1813| Joseph Wolf |b|1820| Phan Đình Phùng |b|1896| Edith Tolkien |b|1889| Cecil B. DeMille |d|1959| Yasunori Mitsuda |b|1972| Freda Utley |d|1978 | Vincent Lingiari |d|1988| IShowSpeed |b|2005

January 21: National Hugging Day (United States) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1793 – French Revolution: After being found guilty of high treason by the National Convention, Louis XVI was guillotined in Paris.
• 1919 – The First Dáil convened at the Mansion House in Dublin and adopted a declaration of independence calling for the establishment of the Irish Republic.
• 1951 – Mount Lamington, a volcano in Papua New Guinea, erupted (pictured) and killed more than 2,900 people.
• 1972 – Tripura, formerly part of the independent Twipra Kingdom, became a state of India.
• 2017 – Millions of people participated in the Women's March in Washington, D.C., and around the world to advocate for legislation and policies on human rights and other issues.