Notable Historical Events on January 20th
January 20th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
250 |
St Fabian ends his reign as Catholic Pope (236-50) |
820 |
Book of mother, published |
1045 |
Giovanni di Sabina elected Pope Sylvester III |
1156 |
According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland. |
1265 |
1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester |
1320 |
Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland |
1356 |
Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scots. |
1502 |
The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored. |
1503 |
Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) found (Spain) to deal with American affairs |
1513 |
Christian II succeeds Johan I as Danish/Norwegian king |
1523 |
Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway. |
1576 |
The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almansa. |
1613 |
Peace of Knarodends War of Kalmar between Denmark & Sweden |
1648 |
Cornerstone of Amsterdam townhall laid |
1667 |
Treaty of Andrussovo-ends 13 year war between Poland & Russia |
1778 |
1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass |
1781 |
1st edition of Pieter It Hoens "Post of Neder-Rhijn" published |
1783 |
Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War |
1785 |
Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Is), no takers |
1788 |
Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga |
1801 |
John Marshall appointed US chief justice |
1807 |
Napoleon convenes great Sanhedrin, Paris |
1809 |
1st US geology book published by William Maclure |
1839 |
In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance. |
1840 |
Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica |
1840 |
Dutch King Willem II crowned |
1841 |
China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War |
1850 |
Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England |
1860 |
Dutch troops conquer Watampone in Celebes |
1866 |
Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends |
1868 |
Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee |
1869 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before US Congress |
1870 |
"City of Boston" vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard |
1870 |
Hiram R. Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis |
1872 |
California Stock Exchange Board organized |
1879 |
British troops under Lord Chelmsford set camp at Isandlwana |
1883 |
Billy Barnes takes a hat-trick, England v Aust MCG |
1887 |
US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor |
1892 |
1st basketball game played (Mass) |
1905 |
The US begins supervision of the Dominican Republic's national and international debts, testing Roosevelt's 'Corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine |
1910 |
Ottawa Senators sweep Edmonton in 2 for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1910) |
1914 |
The first group of Transvaal Indian women satyagrahis are released from Pietermaritzburg Prison in South Africa after three months imprisonment |
1920 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws |
1920 |
The American Civil Liberties Union is founded. |
1921 |
British submarine K5 leaves with man & mouse |
1921 |
Dagestan ASSR forms in RSFSR |
1921 |
Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR |
1921 |
Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire |
1922 |
Arthur Honegger's ballet "Skating Rink" premieres, Paris |
1925 |
USSR & Japan sign treaty of Peking, Seychelles back to USSR |
1926 |
2nd German government of Luther begins |
1929 |
1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona" |
1930 |
1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit) |
1934 |
Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria |
1936 |
Edward VIII succeeds British king George V |
1937 |
-45°F (-43°C), Boca, California (state record) |
1937 |
1st US Presidential Inauguration day held on Jan 20th, (previously March 4th) |
1939 |
Charles Ives' 1st Sonate "Concord," premieres |
1941 |
Bela Bartok's 6th string quartet, premieres in NYC |
1942 |
Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain |
1942 |
Japanese invade Burma |
1942 |
Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin to organise the "final solution", the extermination of Europe's Jews |
1943 |
Lead SD, temp is 52°F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood SD records -16°F |
1943 |
Operation-Weiss: Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian & Croatian |
1944 |
RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin |
1945 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as US President |
1945 |
The Hungarian Provisional Government concludes an armistice with the USSR, US, and Britain, agree to pay reparations and to join the war against Germany |
1946 |
F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government |
1947 |
Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA |
1949 |
J. Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen |
1949 |
Pres Harry Truman announces his point 4 program |
1950 |
"Dance Me a Song" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 35 performances |
1950 |
Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands |
1952 |
British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone |
1952 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
1953 |
1st US telecast transmitted to Canada-from Buffalo NY |
1953 |
1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower) |
1954 |
-70°F (-57°C), Rogers Pass, Montana (US 48 state record) |
1954 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' "Concertino opus 94," premieres |
1954 |
The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations. |
1955 |
1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn |
1956 |
Buddy Holly records "Blue Days Black Night" in Nashville |
1957 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
1957 |
Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election |
1957 |
Morton Gould's "Declaration," premieres in Washington, DC |
1958 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
1958 |
KUED TV channel 7 in Salt Lake City, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1959 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' Moscow-Tsjerjomoesjki, premieres in Moscow |
1960 |
Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo |
1961 |
Arthur M Ramsay becomes archbishop of Canterbury |
1961 |
Francis Poulenc's "Gloria," premieres in Boston |
1961 |
Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration |
1961 |
Yugoslav ex-vice-president Milovan Djilas flees |
1962 |
"Kean" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 performances |
1964 |
"Meet The Beatles" album released in US |
1965 |
Beatles appear on Shindig (ABC-TV) |
1965 |
Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man" |
1965 |
JPL proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars & return |
1965 |
Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain |
1968 |
Houston ends UCLA's 47-game basketball winning streak, 71-69 |
1968 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
1968 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood |
1968 |
The Houston Cougars defeat the UCLA Bruins 71-69 to win the Game of the Century. |
1969 |
Richard M Nixon inaugurated as president |
1969 |
U of Az reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula) |
1970 |
20th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 142-135 at Philadelphia |
1970 |
23rd NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 4-1 at St Louis |
1970 |
Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano |
1971 |
Ard Schenk skates world record 1000m (1:18.8) |
1971 |
John Lennon meets Yoko Ono's parents in Japan |
1972 |
Six oil exporting countries conclude meetings with Western oil companies; an agreement is reached to raise the posted price of crude by 8.49 percent to offset the loss in value of oil concessions attributable to the decline in value of the US. dollar |
1973 |
A car bomb explodes in Sackville Place, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, killing 1 person and injuring 17 (no organisation claimed responsibility) |
1974 |
24th NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-13 |
1974 |
7th ABA All-Star Game: East 128 beats West 112 at Virginia |
1974 |
A college basketball game ends 210-67 |
1974 |
Essex Comm College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball |
1975 |
25th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-10 |
1975 |
Terrence McNally's "Ritz," premieres in NYC |
1976 |
29th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-5 at Phila |
1977 |
George H W Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA |
1977 |
Mr Knoche, serves as acting director of CIA |
1978 |
Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie" |
1979 |
1 million Iranians march in Tehran in a show of support for the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, fundamentalist Muslim leader |
1980 |
President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow |
1980 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
1980 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
1980 |
Super Bowl XIV: Pittsburgh Steelers beat LA Rams, 31-19 in Pasadena, MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB |
1981 |
52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed |
1981 |
Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), ends term as 12th director of CIA |
1981 |
Frank C Carlucci, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
1981 |
Islander Glenn Resch's 25th & last shut-out opponent-Flames 5-0 |
1981 |
Ronald Reagan inaugurated as 40th US President |
1982 |
7 miners killed in an explosion in Craynor Ky |
1982 |
Honduras constitution goes into effect |
1982 |
Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament |
1982 |
Darryl Sittler is traded by the Toronto Maple Leafs to the Philadelphia Flyers |
1983 |
American gangster Roy DeMeo is found murdered in his car trunk after disappearing a few days earlier |
1984 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
1985 |
Cold front strikes US, at least 40 die (-27°F (-33°C) in Chicago) |
1985 |
Super Bowl XIX: SF 49ers beat Miami Dolphins, 38-16 in Stanford Super Bowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB |
1986 |
1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr |
1986 |
Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Canal) |
1986 |
Milt coup in Lesotho under gen-mjr Lekhanya & premier Leabua Jonathan |
1987 |
Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon |
1987 |
Rhino Records 1st #1-Billy Vera & Beaters' "At This Moment" |
1987 |
8th ACE Cable Awards: Ted Turner wins the Golden CableACE |
1987 |
Bank robber Robert Alan Litchfield is arrested at Lake Tahoe |
1988 |
Andre Hoffman skates world record 1500m (1:52.06) |
1988 |
Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham |
1989 |
George H W Bush inaugurated as 41st US President & Dan Quayle becomes 44th Vice President |
1989 |
Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket |
1989 |
Reagan becomes 1st pres elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive |
1990 |
47th Golden Globes: Born on 4th of July, Driving Miss Daisy win |
1990 |
US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns from space |
1990 |
Black January - crackdown of Azerbaijani pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku. |
1991 |
"Black & Blue" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 829 performances |
1991 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Pantages Theatre, LA |
1991 |
"Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC or 45 performances |
1991 |
"Shogun - The Musical" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 72 perfs |
1991 |
13th UCP Telethon |
1991 |
Buffalo Bills beat LA Raiders 51-3 for AFC title |
1991 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic |
1991 |
US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles |
1991 |
Matt Barr's field goal with no time left gives NY Giant 15-13 Victory over defending champs SF 49ers, for NFC title |
1991 |
Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south. |
1992 |
Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
1992 |
Score begins selling international soccer cards |
1993 |
Adm Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA |
1993 |
Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd US President |
1995 |
"Love! Valor! Compassion!" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 276 perfs |
1995 |
1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike |
1995 |
Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record) |
1996 |
46th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at Fleet Center Boston |
1996 |
Australia defeat Sri Lanka 2-0 to win World Series Cup |
1996 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan |
1996 |
WPAT FM NYC radio station switches to English-Spanish format |
1997 |
Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars' orbit |
1997 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in New Orleans LA on KKND 106.7 FM |
1997 |
Pakistan defeat West Indies 2-0 to win Aust one-day Series |
1998 |
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mama & Papas & Eagles |
1998 |
Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tueday night programming |
1999 |
The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafés. |
2001 |
President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in the EDSA II Revolution and succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. |
2009 |
Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president |
2009 |
Joe Biden assumes the office of the Vice President of the United States |
2013 |
Austria votes to maintain compulsory military service in a referendum |
2013 |
The San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens win the NFC and AFC championship games to reach Super Bowl XLVII |
2014 |
Credit cards of at least 20 million South Koreans are hacked |
2016 |
Pakistan University Attack Kills at Least 19, Official Says |
2017 |
El Chapo, Mexican Drug Kingpin, Extradited to the US |
2017 |
Obama grants 330 more commutations, bringing total to a record 1715 |
2017 |
Oakland Raiders: NFL team apply to move to Las Vegas in 2020 |
2018 |
US government shutdown begins as spending bill fails in Senate |
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