On this day: January 21

January 21: Feast Day of Saint Agnes (Christianity); Flag Day in Quebec

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• 763 – The Abbasid Caliphate crushed the Alid Revolt when one of the rebellion leaders was mortally wounded in battle near Basra in what is now Iraq.
• 1840 – The French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville discovered Adélie Land, Antarctica.
• 1912 – Raymond Poincaré, who would pursue hardline anti-German policies, began his first term as Prime Minister of France.
• 1963 – Following a period of chaos in Congo-Léopoldville and United Nations intervention, the secession of Katanga came to an end.
• 1976 – The Concorde supersonic transports (pictured) began scheduled commercial flights to London, Paris, Bahrain, and Rio de Janeiro.

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