This day in history...

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1969 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins the Rolling Stones

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1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2937 Gibbs, #2938 Hopi & #3160 Angerhofer

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1990 Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium

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1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen

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1892 The Baptist Young People's Union held its first national convention in Detroit.The founding of the BYP Union was inspired by the earlier work of Francis E. Clark, aCongregational pastor who founded the first 'modern' youth fellowship in 1881.

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1990 Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premiers on ABC-TV

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1987 Molly Yard elected new pres of Natl Org for Women

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1947 "Caribbean Carnival" closes at International NYC after 11 performances

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1991 Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant
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1913 Conclusion of the 2nd Balkan War

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1981 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends

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1991 Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida

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1988 Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to NYC

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On Jan. 21, 1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 54.

On Jan. 21 , 1905, Christian Dior , French fashion designer and creator of the ''New Look'' in 1947 , was born. Following his death on Oct. 24 , 1957, his obituary appeared in The Times.



On January 21, 1865, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about public safety.

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1793 France's King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.


1861 Five Southerners resigned from the U.S. Senate, including Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, the future president of the Confederacy.


1915 The first Kiwanis Club was founded, in Detroit.


1942 Count Basie and His Orchestra recorded "One O'Clock Jump" in New York City for Okeh Records.


1950 A federal jury in New York City found former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.


1950 Author George Orwell died in London.


1954 The first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched at Groton, Conn.


1976 The supersonic Concorde jet was put into service by Britain and France.


1977 President Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.


1994 A jury in Manassas, Va., acquitted Lorena Bobbitt by reason of temporary insanity of maliciously wounding her husband, John, whom she'd accused of sexually assaulting her.


1997 Speaker Newt Gingrich was fined as the House voted for first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct.


1998 Pope John Paul II began his first visit to Cuba.


2003 The Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had surpassed blacks as America's largest minority group.


2004 The recording industry sued 532 computer users it said were illegally distributing songs over the Internet.


2009 The Senate confirmed Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state

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This day in History......20 years ago my nephew was born in Athens Ohio......

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• Jun 23, 1992 Teflon Don sentenced to life Jun 24, 1997 U.S. Air Force reports on Roswell Jun 25, 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn Jun 26, 1948 U.S. begins Berlin Airlift Jun 27, 1950 Truman orders U.S. forces to Korea Jun 28, 1953 Workers assemble first Corvette in Flint, Michigan Jun 29, 1995 U.S. space shuttle docks with Russian space station