The Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War.

Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo’s central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.

Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.

The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell in 1908. The Boy Scout movement began in the early 20th century, shaped…

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly…

Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.

21 January 1981 – Production of the iconic DeLorean sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.

The British East India Company captures Aden.

World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.