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The Really Small Bad Day Almanac: January 21

1535: In Paris, the government of Francis I continues to burn French Protestants at the stake for placing anti-Catholic posters around Paris and other French cities on the night of Oct. 17, 1534.
1793: Louis XVI is guillotined after the French Revolutionary government judges him guilty of treason.
1960: At Montego Bay, Jamaica, 37 people die in the crash of an Avianca jetliner.
1961: More than 400 workers die in the collapse of a mine in Coalbrook, Free State, South Africa.
2003: Twenty-nine people die in an earthquake in the Mexican state of Colima.

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