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Notable anniversaries in history for today: January 21
- 700th: 1324 - Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai and Shingon.
- 250th: 1774 - Mustapha III sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at age 56.
- 200th: 1824 - Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa.
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson; Lieutenant-General second Corps (ANV, Confederacy).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Benny Hill in Southampton, England; comedian (Benny Hill Show).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Telly [Aristotle] Savalas in Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA; actor (Acapulco, Kojak).
- 100th: 1924 - Death of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin at age 54 of a stroke; Soviet premier.
- 100th: 1924 - Death of G.F.C. Smillie in Washington, D.C., USA; bank note engraver.
- 80th: 1944 - 447 German bombers attack London, England.
- 80th: 1944 - 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg.
- 80th: 1944 - Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer, dies at age 74.
- 80th: 1944 - US General Dwight Eisenhower accepts the revised plan for Operation Overlord, with five divisions landing on fifty miles of Normandy beaches. Americans are to land on the west, aiming for Cherbourg, Brest, and ports around the Loire estuary. British and Canadian forces are to land on the east near Caen, seizing Caen on the first day. D-Day is set for June 5.
- 70th: 1954 - First atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, launched on Thames River, christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower.
- 70th: 1954 - First gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City, New York).
- 60th: 1964 - Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Jerald Sowell; fullback (New York Jets).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Jerry Wunsch; tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Orpheus Roye; defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers).
- 50th: 1974 - Gold hits record US$161.31 an ounce in London, England.
- 50th: 1974 - Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author, dies at age 48.
- 50th: 1974 - Ken Viljoen, cricket player (played 27 Tests for South Africa 1930-47), dies.
- 50th: 1974 - Lewis L Strauss, head US Atomic Energy Commission (1953-58), dies at age 78.
- 50th: 1974 - Silver hits record US$3.97 an ounce in London, England.
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Jackie Wilson at age 49 (in a coma since 1975 heart attack); soul singer ("Night" (1960), "I Get the Sweetest Feeling", "Lonely Teardrops"), inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987).
- 40th: 1984 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton.
- 30th: 1994 - Basel al-Assad, Syrian President Assad's son, dies in car accident at age 31.
- 30th: 1994 - Dow Jones Industrial Average passes 3900 (record 3,914.20).
- 30th: 1994 - In Halmahera, Indonesia, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs. Seven people killed, 40 injured and 550 houses damaged in the Kau area.
- 25th: 1999 - In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4.3 t) of cocaine aboard, headed for Houston, Texas.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Charles Brown died at age 76 of congestive heart failure; rhythm and blues singer, pianist (Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - "Drifting Blues" (1946)).
- 20th: 2004 - Birth of Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway.
- 15th: 2009 - The U.S. Senate endorses former New York Senator and former first lady Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.
- 15th: 2009 - Israel completes its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Intermittent air strikes by both sides of the preceding war continue in the weeks to follow.
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