January 21<\/p>\n
1525 \u2013 The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded in Zurich, Switzerland when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and others baptize each other in the home of Manz’s mother.<\/p>\n
1789 \u2013 The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth<\/em> by William Hill Brown, is printed in Boston.<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013 Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.<\/p>\n 1915 \u2013 Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury in connection with him being charged with spying for the Soviets since the 1930s.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus<\/em>, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by 1st Lady Mamie Eisenhower<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 Little Joe 1B<\/em>, a Mercury spacecraft, is launched from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board, testing the launch escape system.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 US Marine Corps and Army troops defending the\u00a0 Khe Sanh Combat Base in northwestern Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb Province, Vietnam are brought under siege by forces of the North Vietnam Army, while near Thule Air Base in\u00a0 Greenland, a B-52 bomber crashes, contaminating the area after its payload of nuclear bombs rupture. One of the 4 bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.<\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 Commercial service of the Concorde<\/em> airliner begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 Galaxy Airlines Flight 203, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes near Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada, killing 70 of the 71 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 The U.S. House of Representatives votes 395\u201328 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 21 1525 \u2013 The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded in Zurich, Switzerland when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and others baptize each other in the home of Manz’s mother. 1789 \u2013 The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth by William Hill Brown, is printed … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64062"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89441,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64062\/revisions\/89441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}