January 21st is national hugging day and hug your puppy day. You can never get enough hugs. As you observe this, it would be great if you read a few significant events of January 21, that made it to history.
Here is a list!
- 1846 – 1st edition of Charles Dickens’ “Daily News”.
- 1911 – 1st Monte Carlo Rally took place.
- 1915 – Kiwanis International was founded in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1934 – Parisian baker and “student of medieval life” Henri Littière appeared in court, charged with forcing his adulterous wife Juliette to wear a chastity belt.
- 1949 – 1st inaugural parade was televised under Harry Truman’s leadership.
- 1958 – The American Secretary of State Dulles made a trip to Baghdad to reassure the Baghdad Pact Nations that they have American Support.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begun at their Air Base.
- 1976 – The First Concorde’s with commercial passengers took off From London’s Heathrow Airport to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf and Paris Orly Airport to Rio de Janeiro.
- 1977 – Italy legalized abortion.
- 1978 – The soundtrack album to “Saturday Night Fever” hit at #1 and topped for 24 weeks.
- 1984 – US male Figure Skating championship was won by Scott Hamilton.
- 1984 – Yes single, Owner Of A Lonely Heart hit #1 in the US and stayed on top for 2 weeks.
- 1990 – John McEnroe became the 1st ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open
- 1991 – CBS News correspondent Bob Simon and four TV crew were captured and held hostage for 40 days by Iraqis in the Persian Gulf.
- 1996 – An overloaded ferry sank in an unexpected storm in Indonesia, killing 340 people.
- 1997 – Dutch/American talent manager Colonel Tom Parker died on this day.
- 1998 – Pope John Paul II visited Cuba, being the first time any Pope visited the country.
- 2008 – Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, with US markets recording huge losses. European and Asian stocks were also affected.
- 2010 – Toyota started to recall about 2.3 million cars in the U.S.
- 2011 – Actress Jaime Pressly (35) divorced entertainment lawyer Simran Singh (33) due to irreconcilable differences after more than 1 year of marriage.