Friday 21 January 2011

On This Day - 21st January


1824 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson born
1922 - Paul Scofield born
1924 - Telly Savalas born
1925 - Benny Hill born
1939 - Wolfman Jack born
1940 - Jack Nicklaus born
1941 - Placido Domingo born
1942 - Mac Davis born
1947 - Jill Eikenberry born
1950 - The British writer George Orwell dies after a three-year battle against tuberculosis
1956 - Robby Benson born
1957 - Geena Davis born
1963 - Hakeem Olajuwon born
1966 - The Monte Carlo rally ends in uproar over the disqualification of the British cars expected to fill the first four places
1976 - Emma Lee Bunton born
1981 - The 52 American hostages held at the US embassy in Tehran for more than 14 months arrive in West Germany on their way home to the United States and Izabella Miko born
1992 - Libya has been served with a resolution to hand over intelligence agents accused of two airliner bombings
1997 - More than 80 people are named as child abusers in statements to the North Wales inquiry

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