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January 21: Feast Day of Saint Agnes (Christianity); Flag Day in Quebec; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States (2013)
1525 – The Anabaptist Movement was born when founders Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, and George Blaurock re-baptized each other and other followers in Zürich, Switzerland, believing that the Christian religious practice of infant baptism is invalid because a child cannot commit to a religious faith.
1789 – The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel, was published.
1972 – Tripura, part of the former independent Twipra Kingdom, became a full-fledged state in India.
1976 – The Concorde supersonic transports (pictured) began scheduled commercial flights to London, Paris, Bahrain, and Rio de Janeiro.
2011 – A protest in Tirana to protest the alleged corruption of the Albanian government, led to the killings of three demonstrators by the Republican Guard.
More anniversaries: January 20 – January 21 – January 22
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