Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 1, 2021


 * 1068 – Having been pardoned by Eudokia Makrembolitissa, the regent of the Byzantine Empire, for attempting to usurp the throne, Romanos VI Diogenes married her to become Byzantine emperor.
 * 1818 – Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a novel by the British author Mary Shelley, was first published anonymously in London.
 * 1892 – The immigration station on Ellis Island (pictured) in New York Harbor opened, processing almost 12 million immigrants to the United States over the course of its existence.
 * 1957 – The revised Thai criminal code came into force, strengthening the law on lèse-majesté in Thailand to include insult, and treating it as a crime against national security.
 * 2011 – A suicide bombing took place outside a Coptic Orthodox church in Alexandria, Egypt, following a New Year service, killing 23 people.