This site was created to easily navigate collection of various events in history. History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past. It is important to know dates and events in the past.

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January 21st, 2008	Event	Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%.
January 21st, 2008	Event	The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last native speaker dies.
January 21st, 2008	Death	Pam Barrett, Canadian politician (born in 1953)
January 21st, 2008	Death	Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language (born in 1918)
January 21st, 2007	Event	Awashima Marine Park in Japan catches a video tape of the rare frilled shark.
January 21st, 2007	Death	Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (born in 1977)
January 21st, 2007	Death	U;Nee, Korean pop artist (born in 1981)
January 21st, 2006	Death	Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (born in 1944)
January 21st, 2005	Event	In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government s new taxes erupts into riots.
January 21st, 2005	Death	Theun de Vries, Dutch writer (born in 1907)

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