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Today in History ~ January 20
Inauguration Day
Events1265 - 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester
1783 - Hostilities officially cease in Revolutionary War
1788 - Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga
1800 - Napoleon I's sister Carolina marries King Joachim Murat of Naples
1801 - John Marshall appointed US chief justice
1807 - Napoleon convenes great Sanhedrin, Paris
1809 - 1st US geology book published by William Maclure
1841 - China cedes Hong Kong to British [H]
1887 - US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
1921 - Turkey founded from remnants of Ottoman Empire
1930 - 1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit)
1939 - Hitler proclaims to German parliament his intention to exterminate all European Jews
1942 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
1942 - Japanese invade Burma
1942 - Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "Final Solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews. It was presided over by SS-Gen Reinhard Heydrich and the minutes were taken by Adolf Eichmann.
1944 - RAF drops 2300 1-ton bombs on Berlin
1945 - FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as president [H]
1956 - Buddy Holly records "Blue Days Black Night" in Nashville
1961 - Francis Poulenc's "Gloria," premieres in Boston
1961 - Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration [H]
1965 - Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man"
1965 - Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain
1969 - Richard M Nixon inaugurated as president
1978 - Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie"
1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow
1981 - Ronald Reagan inaugurated as president
1981 - 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed
1986 - 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr
1989 - Reagan becomes 1st pres elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive.
1989 - George Bush inaugurated as president
1990 - 62 civilians were killed and more than 200 wounded when the Soviet army stormed into the city of Baku to end what Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called fratricidal killing between Muslim Azerbaijanis and Christian Armenians.
1993 - William J. Clinton is inaugurated for his first term as U.S. president. That night, he picked up a saxophone and jammed at five of the 12 inaugural balls he and his wife, Hillary, attended.
1998 - Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tuesday night programming
Birthdays Today
1586 - Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Fontana d'Israel)
1732 - Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence)
1763 - Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot
1889 - Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) (singer, blues 12 string guitarist)
1891 - Mischa Elman, Talnoye, Ukraine, US violinist
1896 - George Burns, [Nathan Birnbaum], NYC, actor/comedian (Oh God)
1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, composer
1906 - Aristotle Onassis (Greek shipping magnate: 2nd husband of Jaqueline Kennedy)
1910 - Joy Adamson (Gessner) (naturalist, writer)
1920 - Federico Fellini (director, screenwriter: Oscar-winning Best foreign-language [Italian] films: LaStrada [1956], The Nights of Cabiria [1957], 8 1/2 [1963], Amarcord [1974])
1922 - Ray Anthony (Antonini) (bandleader: themes from Dragnet, Peter Gunn; Bunny Hop, Dancing in the Dark, Melody of Love; host of 1950s TV show; film: Daddy Long Legs, ex of Mamie Van Doren)
1926 - Patricia Neal (Academy Award-winning actress: Hud [1963]; All Quiet on the Western Front, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Heidi, In Harm's Way)
1928 - Lionel Hebert (golfer: PGA Champion [1957])
1928 - Martin Landau, Bkln, NY actor (Mission Impossible, Tucker, Space 1999)
1930 - Buzz (Edwin) Aldrin Jr. (astronout: Apollo 11: second man to walk on the moon)
1931 - Fireball (Edward) Roberts (stock car driver: Daytona 500 winner [1962])
1934 - Arte Johnson (comedian: Laugh-In: 'veddddddy interesting.' and the Dirty Old Man; actor: Love at First Bite, Evil Toons)
1934 - Camilo Pascual (baseball: pitcher: one of the best curve balls: Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins [1954-67]: AL strikeout leader, 202 in 18 games [1963])
1935 - Buddy Blake (record executive)
1935 - Milt Plum (football)
1937 - Dorothy Provine (actress: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
1939 - Murle Lindstrom Breer (golfer)
1940 - Carol Heise (skater: five women's world titles for figure skating [1956-60])
1945 - Eric Stewart (guitarist: group: Mindbenders: Game of Love; Hotlegs then 10CC: Donna, I'm Not in Love, The Things We Do for Love)
1946 - David Lynch (director: Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Dune, The Elephant Man)
1947 - George Grantham (drummer: group: Poco: Crazy Eyes, A Good Feelin' to Know)
1949 - Ivana Trump, former wife of Donald
1952 - Paul Stanley (Eisen) (singer: formed group: Kiss: 'the clown': Rock and Roll All Nite)
1955 - Joe Doherty, Ireland, IRA activist (jailed in US)
1958 - Lorenzo Lamas (actor: Falcon Crest, Renegade, SnakeEater, Bad Blood)
Famous deaths
0820 - Abu Abdallah Mibn Idris al-Sjafi'i, Islamic (Book of Mother), dies
1612 - Rudolf II von Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1576-1612), dies at 59
1936 - George V, King of Britain (1910-36), dies at 70
1943 - Giacomo Benvenuti, composer, dies at 57
1947 - Josh Gibson, Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35
1948 - Mohandes Gandhi, India pacifist leader, assassinated
1984 - Johnny Weissmuller, US swimmer (Olympics-5 gold-1924, 28), movie actor (Tarzan), dies at 79
1988 - Philippe de Rothschild, Bordeaux Vineyard manager, dies in Paris at 86
1997 - Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor of Titanic, dies at 100
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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