Today in History - History - January 21st

1990John McEnroe becomes 1st ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open

1903Harry Houdini escapes from Halvemaansteeg police station in Amsterdam

1987B.B. King is inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"

199653th Golden Globes: Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta

1861Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign (U.S Civil War)

1989Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer

1950T. S. Eliot's "Cocktail Party," premieres in NYC

1983President Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid

1962Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational

1987BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to U of Mississippi

1905Christian Dior, Normandy France, fashion designer (New Look)

1976Emma Lee Bunton, "Baby Spice", Finchley London, vocalist (Spice Girls)

1940Jack Nicklaus, Columbus Ohio, golfer (Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76)

1824Thomas Jackson ["Stonewall"], Clarksburg, Virginia, Lt Gen 2nd Corps (ANV, Confed), (d. 1863)

1924Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian Revolutionary leader and Premier, dies of a stroke at 53

1926Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and medical researcher (Nobel Prize in Medicine-1906), dies at 81