January 21 - Yum!

Yum!

Will tries out his sister's clementines. Mmmmm...

This Day In History

1789

The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.

1911

The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.

1919

Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin.

1954

The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut

1960

Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey, on board.

Famous Birthdays

1813

John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (d. 1890)

1824

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, American, Confederate army general (d. 1863)

1885

Umberto Nobile, Italian aeronautical engineer (d. 1978)

1905

Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)

1922

Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)

1932

John Chaney, American basketball coach
1938
Wolfman Jack, American disk jockey and actor (d. 1995)
1940
Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
1953
Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft