Today is Thursday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2010. There are 344 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On Jan. 21, 1910, shortly before 11 a.m., the Great Paris Flood began as the rain-swollen Seine River burst its banks, sending water into the French capital for more than a week.
ON THIS DATE
In 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.
In 1858, Felix Maria Zuloaga became president of Mexico upon the ouster of Ignacio Comonfort.
In 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and four other Southerners resigned from the U.S. Senate.
In 1915, the first Kiwanis Club was founded, in Detroit.
In 1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin died at age 53.
In 1954, the first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched at Groton, Conn. (However, the Nautilus did not make its first nuclear-powered run until nearly a year later.)
In 1968, in Greenland, an American B-52 bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed, killing one crew member and scattering radioactive material.
In 1970, the Boeing 747 went on its first commercial flight as Pan Am passengers traveled from New York to London.
In 1976, the supersonic Concorde jet was put into service by Britain and France.
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