January 21, 1909 (Thursday)
- Japan and Russia rejected U.S. Secretary of State Knox's proposal for railways in Manchuria to be neutral.
- Heavy rains fell in France, Germany and Italy, and the Seine River flooded Paris.
- Born: Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer, in Tetovo (d. 2004)
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“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
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