It happened on this day, January 21
Events:
1189 – English kings Richard I and French king Philip II begin to mobilize their armies eastward as part of the Third Crusade.
1793 – King Louis XVI is executed by French revolutionaries by guillotine.
1864 – The Tauranga Campaign begins during the Maori Wars in New Zealand.
1899 – Foundation of the Opel automobile company.
1915 – The first post office opens in Kuwait, at the home of the British commissioner.
1917 – An earthquake in Indonesia kills around 15,000 people.
1930 – Discovery of the planet Pluto.
1954 – Launch of the American submarine “Nautilus”, the first submarine in history to enter service.
1976 – The first Concorde flight takes off between Paris and Rio de Janeiro.
1978 – The Saudi British Bank, known as “SABB”, is established, but its actual activity begins on July 1 of the same year.
2000 – Lunar eclipse, January 2000.
2007 – Libya announces plans to lay off 400,000 civil servants, representing a third of the workforce, in a move to cut spending.
2009 – US President Barack Obama calls for a temporary halt to the trials of terrorist suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay for a period of 120 days.
2012 – The Yemeni House of Representatives approves a bill granting full immunity to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and that this immunity applies to officials who worked with him in civilian, military and security institutions in relation to acts politically motivated, and does not apply to terrorist acts. The approval of this law comes within the framework of the implementation of the provisions of the initiative of the Gulf countries to resolve the Yemeni crisis.
2014 – A bomb attack targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut.
2016 – 41 people were killed and 66 injured following a train derailment in India.
2019 – Dozens of members of the Afghan National Security Forces were killed in an attack claimed by the Taliban on a military compound in the town of Maidan Shahr.
2020 – Announcement of the formation of the seventy-sixth Lebanese government after independence, which will be the first government in Lebanon's history composed of academics and specialists, after the resignation of the previous government following widespread protests.
2021 – Two suicide attacks took place in Al-Tayaran Square and Al-Bab Al-Sharqi, near Al-Bala Market, on the Rusafa side of Baghdad, Iraq.
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Births:
1813 – John Fremont, American soldier and explorer.
1827 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician.
1869 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk.
1889 – Naguib Al-Rihani, Egyptian actor.
1890 – Hassan Al-Baroudi, Egyptian actor.
1901 – Ricardo Zamora, Spanish football goalkeeper.
1904 – Puk van Heel, Dutch footballer.
1905 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer.
1912 – Conrad Bloch, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1964.
1923 – Pahinho, Spanish footballer.
1928 – Gene Sharp, American professor of political science.
1933 – Joseph Ashback, American physician.
1941 – Sattam bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Emir of the Riyadh region.
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** Nabila Obaid, Egyptian actress.
1951 – Eric Holder, Attorney General and Attorney General of the United States.
1953 – Paul Allen, American businessman.
1954 – Phil Thompson, English footballer.
1955 – Jeff Koons, American artist.
1956 – Geena Davis, American actress.
1963 – Hakeem Olajuwon, American basketball player of Nigerian origin.
1972 – Muhammad Abu Obaid, Palestinian journalist.
** Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer.
1975 – Nicky Butt, English footballer.
1976 – Emma Bunton, English singer.
1977 – Phil Neville, English footballer.
** Hussein Abdul Ghani, Saudi footballer.
1980 – Dave Kitson, English footballer.
** Nana Mizeki, Japanese actress.
1981 – Michel Tello, Brazilian singer
1982 – Simon Rolfs, German footballer.
** Nicolas Maillot, French tennis player
** Dean Whitehead, English footballer.
1983 – Maurits Folz, German footballer. 1987 – Aida Haj Ali, Swedish politician.
1988 – Yasmine Sabry, Egyptian actress.
1989 – Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Armenian footballer.
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Death:
1519 – Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish discoverer, governor and conquistador.
1609 – Joseph Escaleger, French orientalist.
1774 – Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan.
1775 – Emelyan Pugachev, Russian revolutionary.
1793 – Louis XVI, king of France.
1795 – Samuel Wallis, English explorer.
1814 – Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French novelist.
1831 – Achim von Arnim, German poet.
1870 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer.
1872 – Franz Grillbarzer, Austrian writer.
1896 – Ali Al-Laithi, Egyptian poet.
1901 – Elisha Gray, American inventor.
1914 – Abu al-Fadl al-Galpayakani, Iranian religious writer and Bahá'í scholar.
1924 – Vladimir Lenin, first president of the Soviet Union.
1926 – Camillo Golgi, Italian doctor who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1906.
1938 – Georges Méliès, French filmmaker.
1950 – George Orwell, British writer.
1955 – Archie Hahn, United States Olympic track and field athlete.
1969 – Mary Mounib, Egyptian actress.
1982 – Zozo Madi, Egyptian actress.
1985 – James Beard, American chef and food writer.
1993 – Abd al-Razzaq Hussein al-Khalidi, Syrian Muslim scholar and poet.
1994 – Basil al-Assad, son of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
2002 – Peggy Lee, American jazz and pop singer.
2006 – Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo.
2008 – Mary Smith-Jones, the last speaker of the Eyak language.
2009 – Ahmed Al-Sabahi, Egyptian politician and leader of the Umma Party.
2012 – Saud Al-Nasser Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti politician and diplomat.
2014 – Farouk Naguib, Egyptian actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪Flag Day in Quebec.
⏪ Wellington's Birthday in New Zealand.
