Daily Calendar for Wednesday, January 21, 2026

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Ethan Allen (patriot) – 1738
John Fitch (inventor) – 1743
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (Confederate Army general, born in Clarksburg, West Virginia) – 1824
Christian Dior (fashion designer) – 1905
Lincoln Alexander (First Black member of Canadian Parliament; was born in Toronto, Canada) – 1922
Jack Nicklaus (golfer) – 1940
Plácido Domingo (tenor) – 1941
Billy Ocean (singer) – 1950
Robby Benson (actor) – 1956
Geena Davis (actress) – 1956
Hakeem Olajuwon (basketball player) – 1963
Jacob Smith (actor) – 1990

First American novel, The Power of Sympathy, published in Boston. – 1789
Louis XVI of France was beheaded – 1793
New York City’s Sullivan Ordinance made it illegal for women to smoke in public places – 1908
Kiwanis International founded – 1915
The Wilderness Society, which would become America’s foremost advocate for wilderness preservation, was founded in Washington, D.C. – 1935
Song Over the Rainbow, by Arlen and Harburg, copyrighted – 1939
First commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater began, in Freeport, Texas – 1941
U.S.S. Nautilus, world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, was launched – 1954
President Jimmy Carter issued a pardon for Vietnam War draft evaders – 1977
Pittsburgh Steelers won their third Super Bowl – 1979
Aretha Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – 1987

Sacramento, California, had a high of only 19 degrees F – 1854
Deadly avalanche occurred at Twin Lakes in Colorado – 1962
Caesars Head, South Carolina, experienced a cold temperature of -19 degrees F – 1985
As much as 3.5 inches of snow fell in Tokyo, Japan – 2006
A 3-day, 81-tornado outbreak in the Southeast United States began – 2017