January 21

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[edit] Events

• 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
• 1287 - The treaty of San Agayz is signed. Minorca is conquered by King Alfons III of Aragon.
• 1525 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
• 1720 - Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
• 1924 - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
• 1977 - President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.

[edit] Births

• 1338 - King Charles V of France (d. 1380)
• 1824 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate Army general (d. 1863)

[edit] Deaths

• 304 - Saint Agnes (martyred)
• 1793 - King Louis XVI of France (executed) (b. 1754)
• 1950 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (b. 1903)
• 2001 - Byron De La Beckwith, White assassin (b. 1920)