A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 21tst!

1189	Philip Augustus, Henry II of England and Frederick Barbarossa assemble the troops for the Third Crusade.
1648	In Maryland, the first woman lawyer in the colonies, Margaret Brent, is denied a vote in the Maryland Assembly.
1785	Chippewa, Delaware, Ottawa and Wyandot Indians sign the treaty of Fort McIntosh, ceding present-day Ohio to the United States.
1790	Joseph Guillotin proposes a new, more humane method of execution: a machine designed to cut off the condemned person’s head as painlessly as possible.
1793	The French King Louis XVI is guillotined for treason.
1861	Five Southerners resigned from the U.S. Senate, including Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, the future president of the Confederacy.
1910	Japan rejects the American proposal to neutralize ownership of the Manchurian Railway.
1915	The first Kiwanis Club was founded, in Detroit.
1919	The German Krupp plant begins producing guns under the U.S. armistice terms.
1921	J.D. Rockefeller pledges $1 million for the relief of Europe’s destitute.
1924	Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died of a stroke at age 53.
1930	An international arms control meeting opens in London.
1933	The League of Nations rejects Japanese terms for settlement with China.
1941	The United States lifts the ban on arms to the Soviet Union.
1942	In North Africa, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel launches a drive to push the British eastward. While the British benefited from radio-intercept-derived Ultra information, the Germans enjoyed an even speedier intelligence source.
1943	A Nazi daylight air raid kills 34 in a London school. When the anticipated invasion of Britain failed to materialize in 1940, Londoners relaxed, but soon they faced a frightening new threat.
1950	A federal jury in New York City found former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.
1951	Communist troops force the UN army out of Inchon, Korea after a 12-hour attack.
1954	The first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched at Groton, Conn.
1958	The Soviet Union calls for a ban on nuclear arms in Baghdad Pact countries.
1964	Carl T. Rowan is named the director of the United States Information Agency (USIA).
1968	In Vietnam, the Siege of Khe Sanh begins as North Vietnamese units surround U.S. Marines based on the hilltop headquarters.
1974	The U.S. Supreme Court decides that pregnant teachers can no longer be forced to take long leaves of absence.
1976	Leonid Brezhnev and Henry Kissinger meet to discuss Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT).
1976	The supersonic Concorde jet was put into service by Britain and France.
1977	President Jimmy Carter urges 65 degrees as the maximum heat in homes to ease the energy crisis. Jimmy Carter in 1977.
1977	President Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.
1993	Congressman Mike Espy of Mississippi is confirmed as Secretary of the Department of Agriculture.
1994	A jury in Manassas, Va., acquitted Lorena Bobbitt by reason of temporary insanity of maliciously wounding her husband, John, whom she’d accused of sexually assaulting her.
1997	Speaker Newt Gingrich was reprimanded and fined as the House voted for first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct.
1998	Pope John Paul II began his first visit to Cuba.
2003	The Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had surpassed blacks as America’s largest minority group.
2004	The recording industry sued 532 computer users it said were illegally distributing songs over the Internet.
2010	A bitterly divided Supreme Court, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, vastly increased the power of big business and labor unions to influence government decisions by freeing them to spend their millions directly to sway elections for president and Congress.
2010	Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards finally admitted fathering a child during an affair before his second White House bid.

Today in history facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, and HistoryOrb.com.