21 Jan
1903 The "Dick Act" creates the modern National Guard -- Learn More
1918 New York Philharmonic refuses to play music by living German composers
1943 Papua: Allied troops mop up Japanese remnants in the Sanananda area.
1954 USS 'Nautilus' (SSN-571) launched, Groton, Conn.
1968 B-52 bomber with nuclear weapons crashes in Greenland
BORN
1813 John C. Frémont, soldier, explorer, politician, d. 1890
1824 Thomas J "Stonewall" Jackson, Lt Gen, C.S.A., d. 1863 -- Learn More
1855 John M Browning, inventor of fine firearms, d. 1926
1918 Richard Winters, who led "The Band of Brothers," E, 506th Parachute Infantry, d. 2011
1919 Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, later Captain, RN, who flew 487 different types of aircraft, made 2,407 deck landings at sea and 2,721 take offs, d. 2016
1922 Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas. WW II "Voice of America" announcer, actor ("Battle of the Bulge"), d. 1994
DIED
1928 George Washington Goethals, 69, US Army engineer who built the Panama Canal
1903 The "Dick Act" creates the modern National Guard -- Learn More
1918 New York Philharmonic refuses to play music by living German composers
1943 Papua: Allied troops mop up Japanese remnants in the Sanananda area.
1954 USS 'Nautilus' (SSN-571) launched, Groton, Conn.
1968 B-52 bomber with nuclear weapons crashes in Greenland
BORN
1813 John C. Frémont, soldier, explorer, politician, d. 1890
1824 Thomas J "Stonewall" Jackson, Lt Gen, C.S.A., d. 1863 -- Learn More
1855 John M Browning, inventor of fine firearms, d. 1926
1918 Richard Winters, who led "The Band of Brothers," E, 506th Parachute Infantry, d. 2011
1919 Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, later Captain, RN, who flew 487 different types of aircraft, made 2,407 deck landings at sea and 2,721 take offs, d. 2016
1922 Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas. WW II "Voice of America" announcer, actor ("Battle of the Bulge"), d. 1994
DIED
1928 George Washington Goethals, 69, US Army engineer who built the Panama Canal