On Jan. 21, 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed by guillotine.

In 1915, the first Kiwanis Club, dedicated to community service, was founded in Detroit.

In 1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin died at age 53.

In 1976, British Airways and Air France inaugurated scheduled passenger service on the supersonic Concorde jet.

In 1977, on his first full day in office, President Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.

In 2017, an estimated 3 million to 5 million people rallied at Women’s March demonstrations across the U.S. to support civil rights.

In 2020, the United States reported its first known case of the 2019 novel coronavirus circulating in China.