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What happened in history on this day: January 21?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On January 21 in ...
- 1986 - IBM announces the IBM RT Personal Computer, using RISC-based technology from IBM's "801" project of the mid-70s. It is one of the first commercially-available 32-bit RISC-based computers. The base configuration has 1 MB RAM, a 1.2 MB floppy, and 40 MB hard drive, for US$11,700.
- 2003 - U.S. District Judge J. Motz issues a preliminary injunction, ordering Microsoft to distribute Sun Microsystems' Java with Windows, and to cease distribution of its own implementation.
- 2003 - At the LinuxWorld show in New York, SuSE announces the SuSE Linux Office Desktop software, for US$129. It is SuSE Linux 8.1 with CodeWeavers' CrossOver Win32 API, allowing many Windows applications to run.
- 1924 - Disney ships the second Alice Comedy film, Alice Hunting in Africa, to M.J. Winkler Productions.
- 1930 - Ub Iwerks tells Roy Disney he wants to leave the Disney studio. Roy offers him $5000 for his 20 percent share of the company.
- 1932 - Disney completes the Mickey Mouse film The Duck Hunt. Pluto also appears.
- 1933 - The Mickey Mouse film The Mad Doctor is released to theaters. Pluto also appears.
- 1938 - Animation work begins on The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
- 1956 - The American Dairy Association Exhibit (Dairy Bar) food facility opens in Tomorrowland at Disneyland.
- 1960 - Disney releases the animated short film Goliath II to theaters. This is the first Disney film to be fully animated using the Xerox process for transfering pencil drawings directly to cels.
- 1960 - Disney releases the live-action short film Gala Day at Disneyland to theaters.
- 1960 - Buena Vista releases Disney's live-action feature film Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus to theaters. The film is based on the novel by James Otis Kaler.
- 1962 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring Sancho the Homing Steer, part one.
- 1968 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, entitled Disneyland - From the Pirates of the Caribbean to the World of Tomorrow.
- 1969 - The U.S. Forest Service announces formal approval of the Disney master plan for a Mineral King ski resort.
- 1973 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, entitled Fifty Happy Years.
- 1977 - Buena Vista Distribution generally releases the live-action feature film Freaky Friday to theaters in the US.
- 1982 - The CBS TV network airs the special Kraft Salutes Walt Disney World's 10th Anniversary.
- 1991 - The ABC TV network airs the special New Kids on the Block at Walt Disney World - Wildest Dreams.
- 1993 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US.
- A sports character is asked what he's going to do now; he replies "I'm going to Duff Gardens", a parody of paid promotions of sports players saying they're going to Disneyland.
- At Duff Gardens, there are many Disney parodies:
- the Seven Duffs (Seven Dwarfs),
- Beer Hall of Presidents (Hall of Presidents) complete with audio and animated President Lincoln standing and speaking,
- Little Land of Duff (It's a Small World) with little characters singing a similar song, and
- Main Street Electrical Parade with similar music.
- 1995 - The last show of the TV series The Crusaders airs.
- 1995 - The film Circle of Life: an Environmental Fable begins airing in the Harvest Theatre in The Land in Epcot Center at Walt Disney World. It includes characters Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa.
- 1997 - Buena Vista Pictures releases the Hollywood Pictures film Eddie on videocassette in the US for US$100.71, and laser disk for US$39.99.
- 1999 - St. Vincent issues 21 postage stamps for the 70th anniversary of Mickey Mouse, depicting Disney characters in winter sports: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck.
- 2001 - The Big Thunder Barbecue in Frontierland at Disneyland closes.
- 2003 - Disney releases the animated film 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch's London Adventure on DVD and videocassette.
- 2004 - Disney sells the downtown shops of Celebration in Walt Disney World to Lexin Capital.
- 2005 - The Disney Channel being airing the American Dragon: Jake Long TV series.
- 1963 - General Motors' Chairman Frederic Donner issues a policy memo, re-iterating the company's compliance with 1957 Automobile Manufacturers Association ban of company-sponsored racing. This officially cancels production plans for the Corvette Grand Sport, with only 5 of the intended 125 cars mostly built.
- 2004 - In Scottsdale, Arizona, the Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction is held, over five days. 64 Corvettes are sold for US$5.1 million. 35 Corvettes sell for over US$50,000; thirteen sell for over US$100,000. Some notable Corvette sales:
- 1953 restored: US$195,000;
- 1954 white convertible, 265-ci 180-hp, all numbers matching: US$100,000;
- 1954 with C4 suspension and 327/350 engine: US$98,000;
- 1959 fuel-injected: US$110,000;
- 1962 red fuel-injected: US$94,000;
- 1963 Sebring Silver coupe, fuel-injected, 40,000 miles: US$137,500;
- 1966 red coupe, 427-ci 425-hp L72, 4-speed, side exhausts, owned by Survivor host Jeff Probst: US$72,500;
- 1967 Marina Blue convertible, 427-ci 425-hp L71: US$135,000;
- 1967 roadster with L89 aluminum heads: US$195,000;
- 1968 L88 coupe: US$157,000;
- 1972 LT-1 ZR-1 coupe: US$100,000;
- 1987 Callaway Sledgehammer Corvette (254.76-mph record setter): US$205,000;
- 1991 Callaway twin-turbo Speedster ZR-1: US$175,000.
- 1932 - Finland and the Soviet Union sign a five-year Pact of Non-Aggression.
- 1940 - The Blue Funnel Line ship Protesilaus is damaged by a mine off Swansea, England.
- 1941 - Australian infantry with 16 Matilda tanks attack Tobruk, Libya, forcing the surrender of 25,000-30,000 Italians and 87 tanks.
- 1942 - US Army Air Force bombs and sinks Japanese steamer Nana Maru between Borneo and Celebes.
- 1942 - German forces under Erwin Rommel in North Africa strike back at British forces.
- 1944 - US General Dwight Eisenhower accepts the revised plan for Operation Overlord, with five divisions landing on fifty miles of Normandy beaches. Americans are to land on the west, aiming for Chrebourg, Brest, and ports around the Loire estuary. British and Canadian forces are to land on the east near Caen, seizing Caen on the first day. D-Day is set for June 5.
- 1946 - In Prague, Czechoslovakia, the National Court convicts Czech General Otto Blaha and General Robert Richtermoc of war crimes, and hangs the two a few hours later. General Gustav Mohapl is sentenced to 25 years in prison for trying to get Czechs to fight with Germans on the Russian front.
- 1997 - In Prague, Czech Republic, Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl sign a document acknowledging wrongs each nation committed against each other bewteen 1938 and 1946.
- 1998 - Capcom releases the Resident Evil 2 video game for the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 in the US.
- 2000 - Enix releases the Dragon Warrior Monsters video game for the Game Boy Color in the US.
- 2005 - Columbia Pictures releases the film Are We There Yet? to theaters in the USA and Canada. The video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is played.
- 2009 - Electronic Arts releases the Skate 2 video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the USA.
- 1867 - Treasury Secretary Hugh McCulloch approves 5-cent pattern with rays removed from the reverse design (and other minor changes), which contributed to premature die deterioration.
- 1913 - The Philadelphia Mint makes patterns of Indian/Buffalo 5-cent coin.
- 1925 - The Philadelphia Mint begins striking Stone Mountain Memorial commemorative half dollars.
- 1887 - Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms in the USA.
- 1894 - Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 seconds.
- 1907 - Kenora Thistles sweep Montana Wanderers in two for the Stanley Cup of ice hockey.
- 1922 - First slalom ski race run, Mürren, Switzerland.
- 1939 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer.
- 1939 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee.
- 1948 - West Indies versus England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes and Jim Laker.
- 1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open.
- 1958 - Philadelphia Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City, New York (doesn't happen).
- 1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational.
- 1967 - AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-23.
- 1967 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming.
- 1967 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti.
- 1968 - AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24.
- 1968 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20.
- 1969 - 22nd NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 3-3 at Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
- 1973 - Third NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 33-28.
- 1975 - 28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montréal.
- 1979 - Super Bowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami, Florida; Most Valuable Player: Terry Bradshaw, quarterback.
- 1980 - Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89-foot 3-inch basketball field goal.
- 1984 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton.
- 1985 - Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals.
- 1986 - 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38 degrees F (3 degrees C), Indiana, USA.
- 1989 - Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's second all time scorer.
- 1990 - 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh.
- 1990 - Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director.
- 1990 - John McEnroe becomes the first ever expelled from the Australian Open for throwing a tantrum and swearing at an official.
- 1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic.
- 1996 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament.
- 1996 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo.
- 2005 - Roger Clemens agrees to one-year, US$18 million deal with the Houston Astros, making Clemens the most expensive pitcher in major league history.
- 2007 - Yokozuna Asashoryu wins the Emperor's Cup at the New Year's Grand Sumo Tournament (Hatsu Basho) in Tokyo, Japan.
- 2022 - At Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington, USA, NHL regular season game: Saint Louis Blues beats Seattle Kraken by score 5-0.
- 2022 - At Honda Center in Anaheim, California, USA, NHL regular season game: Anaheim Ducks beats Tampa Bay Lightning by score 5-1.
- 2022 - At Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, NHL regular season game: Florida Panthers beats Vancouver Canucks by score 2-1.
- 2022 - At United Center in Chicago, Illinois, USA, NHL regular season game: Minnesota Wild beats Chicago Blackhawks by score 5-1.
- 2022 - At UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, USA, NHL regular season game: New York Islanders beats Arizona Coyotes by score 4-0.
- 2022 - At Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan, USA, NHL regular season game: Dallas Stars beats Detroit Red Wings by score 5-4.
- 2022 - At Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, USA, NHL regular season game: Pittsburgh Penguins beats Columbus Blue Jackets by score 5-2.
- 2022 - At PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, NHL regular season game: Carolina Hurricanes beats New York Rangers by score 6-3.
- 1960 - Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km.
- 1985 - -19 degrees F (-28 degrees C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record).
- 1985 - -34 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Mount Mitchell, North Carolina (state record).
- 1789 - First American novel is published, The Power of Sympathy by W.H. Brown.
- 1853 - Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester Massachusetts.
- 1861 - Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and four other southern senators resign from the US Senate.
- 1880 - First US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1887 - Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms in the USA.
- 1908 - New York City, New York regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public.
- 1915 - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- 1927 - First national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago Illinois).
- 1941 - First commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, in Freeport, Texas.
- 1942 - Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal.
- 1944 - US General Dwight Eisenhower accepts the revised plan for Operation Overlord, with five divisions landing on fifty miles of Normandy beaches. Americans are to land on the west, aiming for Cherbourg, Brest, and ports around the Loire estuary. British and Canadian forces are to land on the east near Caen, seizing Caen on the first day. D-Day is set for June 5.
- 1949 - First inaugural parade televised (US President Harry Truman).
- 1950 - New York jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.
- 1953 - John Foster Dulles appointed as US Secretary of State.
- 1953 - George Humphrey takes office as Treasury Secretary.
- 1954 - First atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, launched on Thames River, christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower.
- 1954 - First gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City, New York).
- 1960 - Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km.
- 1961 - C. Douglas Dillon takes office as US Treasury Secretary.
- 1964 - Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency.
- 1968 - US B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland.
- 1977 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter grants an unconditional pardon to hundreds of thousands of men who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War.
- 1981 - The first De Lorean DMC-12 automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.
- 1983 - US President Ronald Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid.
- 1985 - -19 degrees F (-28 degrees C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record).
- 1985 - -34 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Mount Mitchell, North Carolina (state record).
- 1986 - Allison J Brown, age 17 of Oklahoma, crowned fourth Miss Teen USA.
- 1987 - BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to University of Mississippi.
- 1988 - US accepts immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children.
- 1996 - 53th Golden Globes: Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta.
- 1997 - Newt Gingrich becomes the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
- 1999 - In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4.3 t) of cocaine aboard, headed for Houston, Texas.
- 2005 - Disk jockey Dave Plotkin sets a record for the world's longest continuous broadcast by a single jock, staying on the air for 110 hours. Plotkin broadcast from Rollins College's WPRK-FM in Winter Park, Florida, USA.
- 2007 - New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announces plans to run for President in 2008.
- 2009 - The U.S. Senate endorses former New York Senator and former first lady Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.
Other history:
- 1954 - First atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, launched on Thames River, christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower.
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