^B{^#!16!21 January^N! Feast day of St Agnes, St Fructuosus of Tarragona, St Patroclus of Troyes, St Alban or Bartholomew Roe, St Epiphanius of Pavia, and St Meinrad.
^B{1793^B} Louis XVI, King of France, was guillotined in Place de la RΘvolution. ^B{1846^B} The first issue of the ^I{Daily News^I}, edited by Charles Dickens, was published. ^B{1911^B} The first Monte Carlo automobile rally was held; it was won seven days later by French racer Henri Rougier. ^B{1941^B} The British communist newspaper, the ^I{Daily Worker^I}, was banned due to wartime restrictions. ^B{1954^B} The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS ^I{Nautilus^I}, was launched. ^B{1976^B} Concorde inaugurated its commercial service with simultaneous take-offs, from Paris to Rio de Janeiro and from London to Bahrain.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}John Charles Fremont, US explorer, ^B{1813^B}; Thomas Jonathan ('Stonewall') Jackson, US Confederate general, ^B{1824^B}; Christian Dior, French couturier, ^B{1905^B}; Benny Hill, English comedian, ^B{1924^B}; Jack Nicklaus, US golfer, ^B{1940^B}; Placido Domingo, Spanish operatic tenor, ^B{1941^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Elisha Gray, US inventor, ^B{1901^B}; V I Lenin, Russian leader, ^B{1924^B}; Lytton Strachey, English critic and biographer, ^B{1932^B}; George Orwell, British novelist, ^B{1950^B}; Cecil B De Mille, US film director, ^B{1959^B}.
