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1911 : First Rally Monte Carlo On January 21, 1911, held the first Rally Monte Carlo which was established at the beginning to attract the jet set of Europe. Today it is a major sporting event.
1968 : Beginning of the Battle of Khe Sanh On January 21, 1968, Vietnam People's Army attacked the American base at Khe Sanh near the Laotian border in South Vietnam. The battle lasted 77 days.
1976 : First Concordes On January 21, 1976, the first commercial flights of Concorde took off : one from London to Bahrain, the other from Paris to Rio de Janeiro.

Quebec flag
On 21 January we commemorate the adoption of the Quebec flag in 1948.

Red Cloud
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Henri Duparc, Compositor francés (1848)
Karl Staaff, Primer ministro de Suecia (1860)
Cristóbal Balenciaga, Diseñador de moda española (1895)
Christian Dior, Diseñador de moda francés (1905)
Konrad Emil Bloch, Bioquímica, Premio Nobel de Medicina (1912)
Richard D. Winters, Héroe de la 2 ª Guerra Mundial americano (1918)
Telly Savalas, Actor (1922)
Paul Scofield, Actor (1922)
Benny Hill, Actor británico (1924)
Plácido Domingo, Tenor español (1941)
Michel Jonasz, Cantante (1947)
Billy Ocean, Cantante (1950)
Paul Allen, Co-fundador de Microsoft (1953)
Geena Davis, Actriz (1956)
Marie Trintignant, Actriz (1962)
Ulrica Messing, Político sueca (1968)
Ken Leung, Actor (1970)
Thomas Castaignede, Jugador de rugby francés (1975)
Emma Bunton, Cantante (Spice Girls) (1976)
Jackson Brundage, Actor (2001)

Ignazio Donati, Compositor italiano (1638)
Louis XVI, Rey de Francia (1793)
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Escritor (1814)
Vladimir Lenin, Político ruso (1924)
George Orwell, Escritor (1950)
Cecil B. DeMille, Director de cine (1959)
Blaise Cendrars, Escritor (1961)
Ann Sheridan, Actriz (1967)
Giannis Skaribas, Escritor (1984)
Maria Cioncan, Atleta rumana (2007)