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January 21

1919 The German Krupp plant begins producing guns under the U.S. armistice terms.

1921 J.D. Rockefeller pledges $1 million for the relief of Europe's destitute.

1941 The United States lifts the ban on selling arms to the Soviet Union.

1942 In North Africa, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel launches a drive to push the British eastward. While the British benefited from radio-intercept-derived Ultra information, the Germans enjoyed an even speedier intelligence source.

1974 The U.S. Supreme Court decides that pregnant teachers can no longer be forced to take long leaves of absence.

1976 Leonid Brezhnev and Henry Kissinger meet to discuss Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT).

1977 President Carter urges 65 degrees as the maximum heat in homes to ease the energy crisis.


Born on January 21

1824 Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate General.


JOTD

A British doctor says: "In Britain, medicine is so advanced that we cut off a man's liver, put it in another man, and in 6 weeks, he is looking for a job."... The German doctor says: "That's nothing, in Germany we took part of a brain, put it in another man, and in 4 weeks he is looking for a job."
The Russian doctor says: "Gentlemen, we took half a heart from a man, put it in another's chest, and in 2 weeks he is looking for a job."
The American doctor laughs: "You are all behind us. A few months ago, we took a man with no brain, no heart, and no liver and made him President.
Now, the whole country is looking for a job!"