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763 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa. [1]1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
Daniel McCallum (21 January 1815 – 27 December 1878) was a Scottish-born American railroad engineer, general manager of the New York and Erie Railroad, and a brevet major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is known as one of the early pioneers of management; in 1855, he designed an illustrative organization chart of ...
January 21. Members of the First Dáil. 763 – The Abbasid Caliphate crushed the Alid revolt when a rebel leader was mortally wounded in battle near Basra in present-day Iraq. 1789 – The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel, was published.
In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Day is the first day of the calendar year, 1 January.Most solar calendars (like the Gregorian and Julian) begin the year regularly at or near the northern winter solstice, while cultures and religions that observe a lunisolar or lunar calendar celebrate their Lunar New Year at less fixed points relative to the solar year.
On 16 July 2005, the English Wikipedia began the practice of including the day's "featured pictures" on the Main Page. On 19 March 2006, following a vote, the Main Page of the English-language Wikipedia featured its first redesign in nearly two years. On 13 May 2010, the site released a new interface.
On this day. January 21: Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States (2019) The First Dáil Éireann. 763 – The Abbasid Caliphate crushed the Alid revolt when one of the rebel leaders was mortally wounded in battle near Basra, in what is now Iraq. 1789 – The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first ...
Wikipedia's 23rd Birthday Celebration:Tadau Kinouliton Wikipedia kumo-23 2024 (Monday, Jan 15th 2024 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (MYT), in Kent Campus Teacher Education Institute, Tuaran, Sabah, Malaysia). Wikipedia Day 2024 Celebration: Dhaka, Bangladesh at Khilgaon. (Monday Jan 15) Online celebration of Wikipedia Day 2024 with the @pprendre Network ...
Macarius of Egypt ( Western Christianity) Maurus and Placidus ( Order of Saint Benedict) Paul the Hermit. January 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Earliest day on which Martin Luther King Jr. Day can fall (the 15th being his birthday), while January 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday in January.