Interesting things that happened January 21st:

Birthdays on this date:

• In 1743 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton
• In 1813 John C. Fremont, mapmaker and explorer of Western US
• In 1815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anaesthesia
• In 1824 Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Second Corps, ANV
• In 1924 Benny Hill, comedian, actor (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
• In 1925 Telly Savalas, actor (Dirty Dozen, Kojak, Kelly's Heroes)
• In 1940 Jack Nicklaus, golfer
• In 1941 Placido Domingo, singer (tenor)
• In 1957 Geena Davis, actor (Thelma and Louise, A League of Their Own)

Events worth noting:

• + National Hugging Day
• In 1793 Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution.
• In 1908 New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public.
• In 1924 Vladimir Lenin dies of a brain hemorrhage at the age of fifty-four.
• In 1945 Allied forces succeed in forcing the German army back to its original line in Belgium's Ardennes Forest, ending the Battle of the Bulge.
• In 1954 Nautilus, first atomic powered submarine launched at Groton, Conn.
  + First gas turbine automobile exhibited - NY city
• In 1967 Ann Sheridan dies at age 51
• In 1976 First commercial flights on the supersonic Concorde.
• In 1979 Neptune temporarily becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).

And remember ...

• National Oatmeal Month
• International Get Over It Month