Today is Tuesday, January twenty first, the twenty first day of 2025. There are 344 days left within the yr.
Today in history:
On January 21, 2020, the United States reported the primary known case of the 2019 novel coronavirus circulating in China. It said a Washington state resident who had returned from the epicenter of the outbreak the week before had been hospitalized near Seattle.
Also on this date:
In 1793, through the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was convicted of treason. executed by the guillotine.
In 1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin died on the age of 53.
In 1950, former State Department official Alger Hiss, accused of being a part of a communist spy ring, was found guilty in New York of lying to a grand jury. (Hiss, who maintained his innocence, served lower than 4 years in prison.)
In 1976, British Airways and Air France introduced scheduled passenger service with the supersonic Concorde aircraft.
In 1977, on his first full day in office, President Jimmy Carter pardoned nearly all Vietnam War draft evaders.
In 2010, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court significantly increased the influence of massive business and labor unions by allowing unlimited donations to political campaigns.
In 2017, the day after Donald Trump's first inauguration as president, an estimated 3 to five million people gathered at Women's March demonstrations across the United States to support civil rights and protest Trump's rhetoric and policies.
Today's birthdays:
- Golf Hall of Famer Jack Nicklaus is 85.
- Opera singer Plácido Domingo is 84.
- Singer-songwriter Billy Ocean is 75.
- Former US Attorney General Eric Holder is 74 years old.
- The artist Jeff Koons is 70.
- Actor and director Robby Benson is 69.
- Actress Geena Davis is 69.
- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., is 64.
- Basketball Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon is 62.
- Singer Emma Bunton (Spice Girls) is 49.
- Actor Luke Grimes is 41.
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