Jan. 21 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1793, French King Louis XVI was executed in Paris, ending more than a thousand years of continuous French monarchy. In 1861, Mississippi Sen. Jefferson Davis resigned from the U.S. Senate 12 days before Mississippi seceded from the Union. He later became president of the Confederate States of America. In 1915, the English steamer Durward, traveling from Leith to Rotterdam, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine near the mouth of the Meuse. The

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