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01/21/1925
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Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway writer
Type: Birth
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01/21/1926
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Camillo Golgi, Ital medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81
Type: Death
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01/21/1926
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Raf Reymen, Flemish actor
Type: Birth
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01/21/1926
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Paul Burke, New Orleans La, actor (Neal-Dynasty) [or Jul 21]
Type: Birth
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01/21/1926
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Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer
Type: Birth
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01/21/1926
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Steve Reeves, Glasgow Montana, actor (Hercules, Hercules Unchained)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1926
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Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties
Type: Event
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01/21/1927
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Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65
Type: Death
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01/21/1927
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1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
Type: Event
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01/21/1929
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Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London
Type: Event
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01/21/1930
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Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russia, cosmonaut
Type: Birth
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01/21/1931
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Felix Blumenfeld, composer, dies at 67
Type: Death
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01/21/1932
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Boris Shakhlin, Russia, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1956-60-64)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1932
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[Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at 51
Type: Death
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01/21/1932
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USSR and Finland stop non-attack treaty
Type: Event
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01/21/1933
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William Wrigley III, chewing gum mogul (Wrigleys)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1933
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Itzhak Fuks, Israeli El Al captain, crashed in Amsterdam
Type: Birth
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01/21/1935
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Ann Wedgeworth, Abilene Tx, actress (Tiger's Tale, Men's Club, Bogie)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1935
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WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)
Type: Event
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01/21/1935
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12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Wash (state record)
Type: Event
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01/21/1935
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Wilderness Society forms
Type: Event
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01/21/1938
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Dutch govt starts obligatory unemployment insurance
Type: Event
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01/21/1939
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George Kaufman and Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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01/21/1939
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US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
Type: Event
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01/21/1939
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Mary Ellen McAnally, Illinois, poet (Dance of the Zygotes)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1939
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US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
Type: Event
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01/21/1939
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Wolfman Jack, [Bob Smith], Bkln NY, DJ (Midnight Special)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1940
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Jack Nicklaus, Columbus Ohio, golfer (Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1940
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Marquis of Tavistock, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
Type: Birth
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01/21/1940
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Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship
Type: Event
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01/21/1941
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Edwin Starr, [Charles Hatcher], US singer (War)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1941
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1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX
Type: Event
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01/21/1941
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Australia and Britain attack Tobruk Libya
Type: Event
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01/21/1941
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British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
Type: Event
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01/21/1941
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Placido Domingo, Madrid Spain, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Mme Butterfly)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1941
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1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
Type: Event
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01/21/1941
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Richie Havens, Bkln, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1942
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Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
Type: Event
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01/21/1942
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Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
Type: Event
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01/21/1942
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Tito's partisans occupy Foca
Type: Event
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01/21/1942
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Mac Davis, Lubbock Tx, singer/actor (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1942
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Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
Type: Event
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01/21/1942
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Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72
Type: Death
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01/21/1943
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Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk
Type: Event
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01/21/1943
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Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
Type: Event
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01/21/1943
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Vice-admiral Cunningham appointed Brit adm of fleet
Type: Event
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01/21/1943
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Otakar Sini, composer, dies at 61
Type: Death
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01/21/1944
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447 German bombers attack London
Type: Event
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01/21/1944
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649 British bombers attack Magdeburg
Type: Event
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01/21/1944
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Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down
Type: Death
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