Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 21, 2021

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 * 1919 – The First Dáil convened at the Mansion House in Dublin and adopted a declaration of independence calling for the establishment of the Irish Republic.
 * 1968 – Vietnam War: The Vietnamese People's Army attacked Khe Sanh Combat Base, a U.S. Marines outpost in Quảng Trị Province, South Vietnam, starting the Battle of Khe Sanh.
 * 1972 – Tripura, part of the former independent Twipra Kingdom, became a full-fledged state in India.
 * 1976 – The Concorde supersonic transports began scheduled commercial flights to London, Paris, Bahrain, and Rio de Janeiro.
 * 1997 – The U.S. House of Representatives voted 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
 * 2017 – An estimated five million people worldwide participated in demonstrations to advocate legislation and policies regarding human rights and other issues.
 * Born/died this day: | Anna Morandi Manzolini |b|1714| Chaim of Volozhin |b|1749| Yemelyan Pugachev |d|1775| John C. Frémont |b|1813| Joseph Wolf |b|1820| Eusapia Palladino |b|1854| Edith Tolkien |b|1899| Frances Gertrude McGill |d|1959| Cecil B. DeMille |d|1959| Freda Utley |d|1978

January 21


 * 763 – The Abbasid Caliphate crushed the Alid revolt when a rebel leader was mortally wounded in battle near Basra in present-day Iraq.
 * 1789 – The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel, was published.
 * 1968 – Cold War: A B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear weapons crashed onto sea ice near Thule Air Base, Greenland, causing localized radioactive contamination.
 * 1981 – The DeLorean Motor Company completed the first production car of the DMC DeLorean (example pictured).
 * 2011 – Demonstrations in Tirana against alleged corruption in the Albanian government led to the killings of three protesters by the Republican Guard.