January 21

On This Day In History
	1976: First commercial Concorde flight Generating a sonic boom as it traveled through the atmosphere at supersonic speed, the Concorde, a commercial aircraft built with funding from the British and French governments, began regular service on this day in 1976.
Concorde supersonic passenger transport, which first flew in 1969 and entered commercial service in ?
Biography Of The Day
	Plácido Domingo Plácido Domingo, an operatic tenor whose voice, physical stature, good looks, and dramatic ability made him one of the most popular tenors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, was born in Madrid this day in 1941.
Plácido Domingo
More Events On This Day In History
1996	1996 Cleanup of 1.8 million gallons (6.8 million litres) of oil began near Block Island National Wildlife Refuge, Rhode Island, two days after the barge North Cape had run aground and created a 12-mile (19-km) oil slick.
	1905 Fashion designer Christian Dior was born in Granville, France.
	1885 Leadbelly-an African American folk-blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose ability to perform a vast repertoire of songs, in conjunction with his notoriously violent life, made him a legend-is believed to have been born this day.
	1793 Louis XVI, the last Bourbon king of France, was executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
	1506 Swiss Guards first arrived at the Vatican as watchmen for the pope.