387 Historic Events for January 21
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| 1939 |
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US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
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| 1939 |
Birth |
Wolfman Jack, [Bob Smith], Bkln NY, DJ (Midnight Special)
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| 1940 |
Birth |
Jack Nicklaus, Columbus Ohio, golfer (Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76)
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| 1940 |
Birth |
Marquis of Tavistock, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
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| 1940 |
Event |
Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship
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| 1941 |
Birth |
Edwin Starr, [Charles Hatcher], US singer (War)
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| 1941 |
Event |
1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX
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| 1941 |
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Australia and Britain attack Tobruk Libya
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| 1941 |
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British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
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| 1941 |
Birth |
Placido Domingo, Madrid Spain, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Mme Butterfly)
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| 1941 |
Event |
1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
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| 1941 |
Birth |
Richie Havens, Bkln, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun)
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| 1942 |
Event |
Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
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| 1942 |
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Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
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| 1942 |
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Tito's partisans occupy Foca
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| 1942 |
Birth |
Mac Davis, Lubbock Tx, singer/actor (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40)
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| 1942 |
Event |
Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
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| 1942 |
Death |
Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72
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| 1943 |
Event |
Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk
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| 1943 |
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Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
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| 1943 |
Event |
Vice-admiral Cunningham appointed Brit adm of fleet
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| 1943 |
Death |
Otakar Sini, composer, dies at 61
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| 1944 |
Event |
447 German bombers attack London
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| 1944 |
Event |
649 British bombers attack Magdeburg
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| 1944 |
Death |
Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down
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