• For full details of graphics available/in preparation, see Menu -> Planners
 On this day January 03-09, 2021 (week 01) infographic
Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries on each day for the week.
GN40854EN
EN AR ES

HISTORY

On this day January 03-09, 2021 (week 01)

January 3, 2021 - January 9, 2021 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries for each day of the week. This week features the Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, the capture of Seoul, the British explorer James Clark Ross, U.S. president George W. Bush, the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, Pan Am, and U.S. singer Joan Baez.

EDITORS: The On this Day series of graphics started almost 25 years ago in 1996. It offers a print graphic for every day of the year in English, Spanish or Arabic. A digital version is also available that auto-updates providing a fresh image for your website every day of the year (English only - see link below).

The print graphics for each week are downloadable together as a set, and made available two weeks at a time, a week before the first day of the first set.

The digital version GN40881 includes data for every day of the year but may be updated as and if necessary during the year

If you want to search for alternative events or anniversaries you can use the On this day database (see links below or via the online Menu).


January 3, 2020: Iranian army officer Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, was killed in a targeted U.S. airstrike near Baghdad airport

January 4, 1951: North Korean and Chinese troops captured the South Korean capital Seoul. The city changed hands four times during the three-year Korean War

January 5, 1841: An expedition led by British explorer James Clark Ross was the first to enter Antarctic pack ice. The Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf were later named after him

January 6, 2001: Congress confirmed George W. Bush as the winner of the most drawn- out presidential election in U.S. history

January 7, 1927: The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, famous for its on-court clowning, played its first game on the road. The team was founded in Chicago in 1926

January 8, 1991: Pan Am, one of America’s oldest airlines, filed for bankruptcy

January 9, 1941: Joan Baez, U.S. singer, civil rights protester, and confirmed pacifist, was born. She helped launch the anti-Vietnam war movement of the 1960s

Sources
PUBLISHED: 30/12/2020; DESIGN: Phil Bainbridge; PICTURE RESEARCH: Julie Mullins; EVENT SELECTION: Fiona Roberts and Susan Shepherd; PROOFING: Julie Mullins; TECHNICAL CONSTRUCTION: Fiona Roberts;; STORY: Julie Mullins; PICTURES: Newscom, Getty, Associated Press
Advertisement