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January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... 2016 – Mrinalini Sarabhai, a 1992-Padma Bhushan award winner Indian classical dancer ...
Health Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa The World Health Organisation confirms a second new case of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone. (AFP via Yahoo! News) International relations Burundian unrest (2015–2018) Two former Presidents of Burundi call for the United Nations Security Council to authorise the use of peacekeeping troops in Burundi to prevent a potential civil war. (Reuters) Law and ...
January 21: Feast Day of Saint Agnes (Christianity); Flag Day in Quebec Concorde 763 – The Abbasid Caliphate crushed the Alid Revolt when one of the rebellion leaders was mortally wounded in battle near Basra in what is now Iraq.
January 2016 United States blizzard This potentially record storm, which is predicted to generate blizzard conditions through a third day on Sunday, has caused at least 10 deaths, knocked out power to hundreds of thousands, led to more than 8,300 canceled flights, stranded many travelers on major highways and, with up to 70 mph winds, produced ...
January 21. Grandma Day. International Sweatpants Day. Mariachi Day. ... January 15 to 21: National Healthy Weight Week. January 15 to 23: International Snowmobile Safety Week.
Since 1937, it has taken place at noon Eastern time on January 20, the first day of the new term, except in 1957, 1985, and 2013, when January 20 fell on a Sunday. In those years, the presidential oath of office was administered on that day privately and then again in a public ceremony the next day, on Monday, January 21.
2016 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.
The January 2016 United States blizzard produced up to 3 ft (91 cm) of snow in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States during January 22–24, 2016. A weather system, evolving from a shortwave trough that formed in the Pacific Northwest on January 19, consolidated into a defined low-pressure area on January 21 over Texas.