January 21

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
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 Zurich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.	The Get Up Kids	Coming Clean	Four Minute Mile
2	1789	The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.	Kind of Like Spitting	Passionate	Bridges Worth Burning
3	1793	After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.	Morrissey	Margaret On the Guillotine	Viva Hate
4	1861	American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.	Hey Mercedes	Quit	Everynight Fire Works
5	1908	New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.	Braid	My Baby Smokes	Age of Octeen
6	1931	Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.	Mirah and the Black Cat Orchestra	Story of Isaac	To All We Stretch the Open Arm
7	1954	The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.	Apples in Stereo	Submarine Dream	The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone
8	1960	Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.	Kojima Mayumi	My Monkey No Satogaeri	Me and My Monkey On the Moon
9	1968	A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.	The B-52's	Party Out of Bounds	Wild Planet
10	1971	The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts.	Curved Air	U.H.F.	Air Cut
11	1977	President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.	Dodgin Bullets	Tomorrow the World Will Change Forever	Earn Your Respect
12	1981	Production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.	John Vanderslice	Time Travel is Lonely	Time Travel is Lonely
13	2004	NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.	Brainiac	Flash Ram	Electro-Shock for President

(Historical facts about January 21 are from Wikipedia.)