01-20-2011, 08:48 PM
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January 21st
1793 ~ King Louis XVI of France, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.
1924 ~ Death of Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the U.S.S.R.
1941 ~ Birthday of Plácido Domingo, tenor Opera Singer.
1950 ~ Death of George Orwell, Writer.
1950 ~ A federal jury in New York City found former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.
1954 ~ The USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear powered submarine, was launched.
1959 ~ Death of Cecil B. DeMille, Movie Director.
1968 ~ Start of the Battle of Khe Sanh.
1998 ~ Pope John Paul II began his first visit to Cuba.
2003 ~ The U.S. Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had surpassed blacks as America's largest minority group.
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