This day in History - January 21

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