Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 21

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 * 763 – The Abbasid Caliphate crushed the Alid revolt when a rebel leader was mortally wounded in battle near Basra in present-day Iraq.
 * 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, formerly part of the independent Twipra Kingdom, became a state of India.
 * 1976 – The Concorde supersonic transports began scheduled commercial flights to London, Paris, Bahrain, and Rio de Janeiro.
 * 1981 – The DeLorean Motor Company completed the first production car of the DMC DeLorean at its factory in Northern Ireland.
 * 2017 – Millions of people participated in the worldwide Women's March, to advocate for legislation and policies on human rights and other issues.
 * Born/died this day: |  Augustin Robespierre |b|1763| Yemelyan Pugachev |d|1775| Theodor Fliedner |b|1800| John C. Frémont |b|1813| Joseph Wolf |b|1820|  Phan Đình Phùng |b|1896|  Edith Tolkien |b|1889|   Cecil B. DeMille |d|1959|  Yasunori Mitsuda |b|1972| Freda Utley |d|1978 | Vincent Lingiari |d|1988

January 21: World Religion Day (2024)


 * 1757 – French and Indian War: French regulars, Canadien militia and Indigenous forces ambushed Rogers' Rangers forces in the Battle on Snowshoes.
 * 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 – A B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear weapons crashed onto sea ice near Thule Air Base, Greenland, causing localized radioactive contamination.
 * 1997 – The U.S. House of Representatives voted 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich (pictured) for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
 * 2011 – Demonstrations in Tirana against alleged corruption in the Albanian government led to the killings of four protesters by the Republican Guard.