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Events on January 21

• 1899 Adam Opel's sons buy Friedrich Lutzmann's factory, appoint him as director and begin building Opel cars.
• 1911 The first Monte Carlo Rally, initiated by Albert I., begins. A total of 20 participants set off toward Monaco from Geneva, Paris, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Berlin, Vienna and Brussels.
• 1921 The Charlie Chaplin film The Kid premieres in New York City.
• 1944 The Steinbock company is founded, and the German Luftwaffe intensifies its air raids on England.
• 1953 With its version of Peter and the Wolf, The Augsburg Puppet Theatre goes on air for the first time on German television.
• 1954 The first atomic-powered submarine, the Nautilus, is launched in the United States.
• 1976 At the same time, two Concordes take off from Paris and London for the first commercial flights of the supersonic aircraft.
• 2001 Jutta Kleinschmidt wins the Dakar Rally as the first woman.
• 2005 Football referee Robert Hoyzer resigns from his post after allegations emerge that he influenced the outcomes of football matches he officiated in order to make profits from football betting.
• 2008 During the trading day, the DAX loses 523.98 points, or 7.2 percent, partly because of growing fears of a recession in the United States, representing the largest percentage loss since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 (at the time, with a decline of 8.5 percent).
• 2012 As the youngest circumnavigator to date, the 16-year-old Laura Dekker reaches the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten with her sailboat “Guppy”.
• 2025 President Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht.

Born on January 21

• 1901 Clärenore Stinnes, German racing driver and circumnavigator
• 1901 Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer
• 1912 Konrad Bloch, German biochemist and Nobel laureate
• 1922 Telly Savalas, American actor
• 1930 Günter Lamprecht, German actor
• 1940 Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
• 1941 Plácido Domingo, Spanish opera singer
• 1950 Silke Maier-Witt, German nurse, psychologist and RAF terrorist
• 1950 Billy Ocean, Pop singer from Trinidad
• 1981 Dany Heatley, Canadian ice hockey player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „21. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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