📜 This Day in History
January 21
- 763The Abbasid Caliphate crushed the Alid revolt when a rebel leader was mortally wounded in battle near Basra in present-day Iraq.
- 1793French Revolution: After being found guilty of high treason by the National Convention, Louis XVI was guillotined in Paris.
1951Mount Lamington, a volcano in Papua New Guinea, erupted and killed more than 2,900 people.- 1976Concorde, an Anglo-French supersonic airliner, began scheduled commercial flights to London, Paris, Bahrain, and Rio de Janeiro.
- 2011Demonstrations against alleged corruption in the Albanian government led to the killings of four protesters in Tirana by the Republican Guard.
- 2025A fire at a hotel at the Kartalkaya ski resort in Turkey's Bolu Province results in 78 people killed.
