What happened on 21 January?

8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1924 Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union Three decades of collectivisation, famine, the Great Purge, victory over Germany and the opening of the Cold War.
2. 1919 Irish War of Independence Guerrilla campaign against British rule in Ireland.
3. 1793 Execution of Louis XVI Citizen Louis Capet beheaded in the Place de la Révolution after the National Convention narrowly votes for death.
4. 1919 The First Dáil declares Irish independence Sinn Féin's elected members constitute themselves as Dáil Éireann in Dublin's Mansion House and declare the Irish Republic. The same afternoon, volunteers at Soloheadbeg kill two p
5. 1942 Hopper's Nighthawks Late-night diner scene; emblem of American urban loneliness.
6. 1924 Death of Lenin The Bolshevik leader dies, opening the succession struggle that Stalin would win over Trotsky.
7. 1976 Concorde enters service British-French supersonic airliner begins commercial flights.
8. 1968 Battle of Khe Sanh A 77-day siege of a US Marine combat base, one of the longest and most publicised battles of the war.