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Birthdates which occurred on January 21:
1338 Charles V (the Wise) king of France (1364-80)
1571 John I Pontanus physicist/historian (Amsterdam)
1735 Johann Gottfried Eckard composer
1743 John Fitch inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)
1792 Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma Fries story teller (Rhymes & Tales)
1813 John C Frémont [Pathfinder], map maker/explorer/Governor (AZ)
1815 Horace Wells dentist (pioneered use of medical anesthesia)
1821 John Cabell Breckinridge (D) 14th US Vice Pressident (1857-61)/Major-General (Confederacy)
1824 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson Lieutenant-General 2nd Corps (ANV, Confederacy)
1829 Oscar II Frederik King of Sweden (1872-1907)/Norway (-1905)/poet
1840 Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake pioneer English woman physician
1855 John M Browning US, weapons manufacturer
1884 Katie Sandwina Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter
1884 Roger Nash Baldwin founder (American Civil Liberties Union)
1897 J Carrol Naish New York City NY, actor (Charlie Chan-Adventures of Charlie Chan)
1905 Christian Dior Normandy France, fashion designer (long-skirted look)
1906 John Putz journalist
1908 Bengt Strömgren Göteborg Sweden, astrophysicist (studied gas cloud)
1912 Konrad Bloch Germany, biochemist (studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964)
1921 Barney Clark 1st to receive a permanent artificial heart
1922 Paul Scofield Hurst England, actor (Man for All Seasons, Train)
1924 Benny Hill Southampton England, comedian (Benny Hill Show)
1924 Telly [Aristotle] Savalas Garden City Long Island NY, actor (Acapulco, Kojak)(Who loves ya baby)
1926 Steve Reeves Glasgow MT, actor (Hercules, Hercules Unchained)
1933 William Wrigley III chewing gum mogul (Wrigleys)
1939 Wolfman Jack [Bob Smith], Brooklyn NY, DJ (Midnight Special)
1940 Jack Nicklaus Columbus OH, golfer (Player of Year 1967,72,73,75,76)
1942 Mac Davis Lubbock TX, singer/actor(Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40)
1947 Jill Eikenberry New Haven CT, actress (Ann Kelsey-LA Law, Manhattan Project)
1957 Geena (Virginia) Davis Wareham MA, actress (Beetlejuice, The Fly)
1975 Anette Oldenborg Miss Denmark-Universe (1996)

Deaths which occurred on January 21:
0879 Boudouin with the Iron Arm Earl of Flanders, dies
1118 Paschalis II [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies
1596 John Ligarius German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66
1665 Pierre de Fermat French mathematician (Fermat theorem), dies at 63
1774 Mustapha III sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56
1793 Louis XVI French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38
1883 Jacopo Tomadini composer, dies at 62
1892 John Couch Adams English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies
1924 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 54
1950 George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies from tuberculosis in London at 46
1974 Lewis L Strauss head US Atomic Energy Commission (1953-58), dies at 78
1984 Jackie Wilson US singer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), dies at 49
1985 Barbara Cowsill rocker (Cowsills), dies of emphysema
1991 Howard "Red" Grange football's galloping ghost, dies at 87
1992 William T "Champion Jack" Dupree US boxer/pianist, dies at 81
1997 Colonel Tom Parker manager (Elvis Presley), dies at 87
2001 Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist convicted three decades after the fact for assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers, died in Jackson, Miss., at age 80.

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 EGAN JAMES T. JR.---MOUNTAINSIDE NJ.
1967 BAUGH WILLIAM J.---PIQUA OH.
[03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 1998]
1967 CONLEY EUGENE O.---AKRON OH.
1967 HOGAN JERRY FRANKS---TUSCALOOSA AL.
1967 KERNS ARTHUR W.---EL PASO TX.
1967 SPOON DONALD R.---MOUND CITY MO.
[03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1968 COALSTON ECHOL W. JR.---MEMPHIS TN.
1968 ELLIOTT JERRY W.---GREENVILLE MS.
1968 HILL BILLY D.---FALLON NV.
1968 KIMSEY WILLIAM A. JR.---RELIANCE TN.
1968 RAMSAY CHARLES J.---NEWARK NJ.
[RADIO CONTACT LOST]
1973 CHRISTOPHERSEN KEITH A.---SOUTH ST. PAUL MN.
[OVERBOARD CVA61 SEARCH NEG]
1973 PARKER CHARLES L. JR.---SAN DIEGO CA.
[OVERBOARD CVA61 SEARCH NEG]
1973 WIEHR RICHARD D.---MANKATO MN.
[OVERBOARD CAV61 SEARCH NEG]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
1077 German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
1189 Philip II, Henry II & Richard Lion-Hearted initiate 3rd Crusade
1276 Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocent V
1324 Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai & Shingon
1604 Tsar Ivan IV defeats the False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar
1664 Count Miklós of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army
1677 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
1789 1st American novel, WH Brown's "The Power of Sympathy", is published
1793 Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)
1799 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
1818 Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
1824 Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
1827 Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing
1830 Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported
1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester MA
1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign
1880 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis TN
1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1903 "Wizard of Oz" premieres in New York City NY
1903 Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
1908 New York City NY regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
1913 Aristide Briand forms French government
1915 Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
1919 Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland
1922 1st slalom ski race run, Mürren, Switzerland
1925 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe President
1927 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1935 The Wilderness Society is founded
1941 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport TX
1941 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
1941 Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya
1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1942 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
1942 Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
1942 Tito's partisans occupy Foca
1944 447 German bombers attack London
1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg
1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
1950 New York jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury
1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
1952 Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State
1954 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City NY)
1954 1st atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, launched on Thames River, christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower
1956 "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden New York City NY after 849 performances
1958 KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1961 KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls ID (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 Snow falls in San Francisco
1968 US B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland
1976 Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France
1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1977 Italy legalizes abortion
1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
1979 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce
1981 Bernhard Goetz is assaulted for 1st time on a New York subway train
1983 Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid
1985 -19ºF (-28ºC), Caesar's Head SC (state record)
1985 -34ºF (-37ºC), Mt Mitchell NC (state record)
1985 Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals
1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38ºF (3ºC), Indiana(No Comment)
1987 Archbishop's envoy Terry Waite disappears in Lebanon
1987 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to University of Mississippi
1988 US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
1990 John McEnroe becomes the 1st ever expelled from the Australian Open for throwing a tantrum & swearing at an official
1991 CBS News correspondent Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf
1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane for chopping off spouse's penis
1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Dominican Republic : Nuestra Senora de Altagracia Day
China : Chinese New Year-The Year of the Rat-Sexageney begins (1996/4694)
Mexico : Santa Ines' Day
US : Pizza Week (Day 4)
US : National Hugging Day
National Volunteer Blood Donor Month

Religious Observances
Baha'i : World Religion Day (Sultan 3)
Christian : Commemoration of St Meinrad
Roman Catholic : Feast of St Meinrad
Roman Catholic, Anglican : Memorial of St Agnes, virgin/martyr at Rome

Religious History
1525 History's first Anabaptist baptismal service took place in Zurich, Switzerland, when Conrad Grebel (re-)baptized George Blaurock.
1549 Parliament passed the first of four British Acts of Uniformity, this first requiring the exclusive use of the Book of Common Prayer (later called the First Prayer Book of Edward VI) in all public services of the Anglican Church.
1738 English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in his journal: 'I desire to have no greater portion than the prayers of the poor.'
1772 Pioneer Methodist bishop Frances Asbury wrote in his journal: 'Though a stranger in a strange land, God has taken care of me.'
1986 Charismatic Bible Ministries was founded in Oklahoma. A fraternal fellowship of charismatic organizations, CBM held its first major conference in June 1986 in Tulsa.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable."

Question Of the day...
How do they get the "Keep off the Grass" sign on the grass?

Murphys Law of the day...First Law of Revision)
Information necessitating a change of design will be conveyed to the designer after -- and only after -- the plans are complete.
(Often called the "Now they tell us!" Law.)

Astounding Fact #873,117...
The Dodge brothers Horace and John were Jewish, that's why the first Dodge emblem had a star of David in it.