SomeFacts | January 21

On this day - January 21

763 — Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids ...

1525 — The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, ...

1535 — Following the Affair of the Placards, the French king leads an ...

1720 — Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.

1749 — The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a ...

1774 — Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph ...

1789 — The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph ...

1793 — After being found guilty of treason by the French National ...

1824 — The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast during ...

1854 — The RMS Tayleur sinks off Lambay Island on her maiden voyage ...

1893 — The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is ...

1908 — New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal ...

1911 — The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.

1915 — Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.

1919 — A revolutionary Irish parliament is founded and declares the ...

1925 — Albania declares itself a republic.

1931 — Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born ...

1932 — Finland and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty.

1941 — Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, ...

1942 — The Jewish resistance organization, Fareynikte Partizaner ...

1945 — The Trade Union Council of Transcarpathian Ukraine is founded ...

1948 — The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time ...

1950 — American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is ...

1951 — The catastrophic eruption of Mount Lamington in Papua New ...

1954 — The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is ...

1960 — A coal mine collapses at Holly Country, South Africa, killing ...

1960 — Avianca Flight 671 crashes at Montego Bay, Jamaica airport, ...

1960 — Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops ...

1963 — The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad ends operation.

1968 — A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the ...

1968 — Vietnam War, Battle of Khe Sanh: One of the most publicized ...

1971 — The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest ...

1976 — Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain ...

1980 — Iran Air Flight 291 crashes in the Alborz Mountains while on ...

1981 — Production of the DeLorean sports car begins in Dunmurry, ...

1985 — Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 crashes near Reno–Tahoe ...

1986 — Conservative protestors attack a mock shanty town that had ...

1997 — The U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand ...

1999 — War on drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American ...

2000 — Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous ...

2003 — A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Mexican state of ...

2004 — NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication ...

2005 — In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new ...

2009 — Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip, officially ending a ...

2011 — Anti-government demonstrations take place in Tirana, Albania. ...

2014 — Rojava conflict: The Jazira Canton declares its autonomy from ...

2017 — Over 400 cities across America and 160+ countries worldwide ...

2023 — Huu Can Tran, 72, opens fire in a dance studio in Monterey ...

2025 — A fire at the Grand Kartal Hotel in the Kartalkaya ski resort ...