21 January 1908<\/h3>\n
The New York City authorities make it an offence for anyone owning or managing a \u201cpublic place\u201d to allow women to smoke in public. Two weeks later the Mayor of New York vetoes the ban.<\/p>\n
21 January 1932<\/h3>\n
Death at Ham, Wiltshire, of writer and critic Lytton Strachey, author of Eminent Victorians and a founder member of the Bloomsbury Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n Because of its pro-Soviet stance the Daily Worker was suppressed by order of British home secretary Herbert Morrison. The ban was lifted 18 months later after a campaign led by, among others, Hewlett Johnson, dean of Canterbury.<\/p>\n American film director, producer and screenwriter Cecil B DeMille dies of heart failure in Hollywood aged 77. Famous for his biblical epics, the last film he directed was The Ten Commandments<\/em>.<\/p>\n Browse more On this day in history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> By Lauren Good Published: Saturday, 21 January 2023 at 12:00 am 21 January 1663 Wiltshire antiquary John Aubrey was elected a member of the Royal Society. Although an early student of the stone circles at both Avebury and Stonehenge, Aubrey is best known for his collection of biographical essays, Brief Lives. 21 January 1908 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21578,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/01\/21-january-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/01\/21-january-on-this-day-in-history-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/01\/21-january-on-this-day-in-history-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/01\/21-january-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/01\/21-january-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/01\/21-january-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/01\/21-january-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Lauren Good Published: Saturday, 21 January 2023 at 12:00 am 21 January 1663 Wiltshire antiquary John Aubrey was elected a member of the Royal Society. Although an early student of the stone circles at both Avebury and Stonehenge, Aubrey is best known for his collection of biographical essays, Brief Lives. 21 January 1908 The…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/21577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}21 January 1941<\/h3>\n
21 January 1959<\/h3>\n
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