On this day …
January 21, 2015
- In 1793, Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine.
- In 1861, future President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis resigned from the U.S. Senate.
- In 1950, American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury.
- In 1954, the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched in Groton, Conn.
- In 1968, the Battle of Khe Sanh, one of the most notorious of the Vietnam War, began.
- In 1976, commercial service of the Concorde began, with the routes London-to-Bahrain and Paris-to-Rio de Janeiro.
- In 1977, President Jimmy Carter pardoned most Americans who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War.
- In 1997, Newt Gingrich became the first Speaker of the House to be reprimanded for ethics violations.
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