January 20
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January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 345 days remaining until the end of the year (346 in leap years).
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Births [change]
- 225 – Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
- 1292 - Elisabeth of Bohemia (d. 1330)
- 1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
- 1488 – Sebastian Muenster, German humanist and teacher (d. 1552)
- 1554 – King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
- 1703 - Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish composer and violinist (d. 1741)
- 1716 – King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
- 1732 - Richard Henry Lee, American statesman (d. 1794)
- 1761 - Giovanni Domenico Perotti, Italian composer (d. 1825)
- 1775 – Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist (d. 1836)
- 1783 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
- 1798 – Anson Jones, President of Texas (d. 1858)
- 1812 – Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
- 1834 - George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
- 1855 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
- 1867 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
- 1873 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer (d. 1950)
- 1876 - Josef Hofmann, Polish inventor, composer and pianist (d. 1957)
- 1878 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (d. 1968)
- 1880 - Walter W. Bacon, 60th Governor of Delaware (d. 1962)
- 1889 - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation executive (d. 1969)
- 1891 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 1967)
- 1894 - Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)
- 1895 - Gabor Szego, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1985)
- 1896 – George Burns, American actor and comedian (d. 1996)
- 1896 - Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
- 1898 – U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947)
- 1899 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese television pioneer (d. 1990)
- 1899 – Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (d. 1972)
- 1902 – Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1907 - Paul Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
- 1910 – Joy Adamson, Austrian-Czech conservationist (d. 1980)
- 1913 - Cleon Skousen, American author and political theorist (d. 2006)
- 1915 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
- 1920 – Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
- 1920 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1920 – Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (d. 2006)
- 1923 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
- 1924 - Slim Whitman, American singer
- 1926 - Vitaly Vorotnikov, Soviet politician (d. 2012)
- 1926 – Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1926 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer
- 1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American Apollo 11 astronaut
- 1931 – David Lee, American physicist
- 1931 - Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist
- 1932 - Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1934 – Tom Baker, British actor
- 1936 – Frances Shand Kydd (d. 2004), mother of Diana, Princess of Wales
- 1940 - Mande Sidibe, Prime Minister of Mali (d. 2009)
- 1941 - Pierre Lalonde, Canadian singer and television presenter
- 1945 - Eric Stewart, British musician and songwriter
- 1945 – Christopher Martin-Jenkins, British sportscaster and cricket journalist (d. 2013)
- 1946 – David Lynch, American film director
- 1946 - Vladimir Merta, Czech singer-songwriter, journalist and writer
- 1947 - Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist
- 1948 - Mel Pritchard, English musician
- 1949 – Göran Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden
- 1950 – Mahamane Ousmane, former President of Niger
- 1950 - Liza Goddard, British actress
- 1951 – Ian Hill, British musician
- 1952 – Paul Stanley, American musician
- 1952 - Ute Hommola, German athlete
- 1954 - Rudy la Scala, Venezuelan singer-songwriter
- 1955 - McKeeva Bush, Cayman Islands politician
- 1956 - Bill Maher, American author, comedian and political activist
- 1960 - Apa Sherpa, Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer
- 1963 - James Denton, American actor
- 1964 - Ozzie Guillen, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1965 – Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer
- 1965 – Greg Kriesel, American musician
- 1965 – Heather Small, British singer
- 1965 – Sophie, Countess of Wessex
- 1966 – Rainn Wilson, American actor
- 1966 - Stacey Dash, American actress
- 1969 – Nicky Wire, British musician
- 1970 - Skeet Ulrich, American actor
- 1971 – Gary Barlow, British singer (Take That)
- 1971 – Derrick Green, American singer
- 1971 - Wakanohana Masaru, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1972 - Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina
- 1973 – Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant, Belgian royal
- 1973 – Josh Weston, American gay porn actor (d. 2012)
- 1977 – Sid Wilson, American musician (Slipknot)
- 1978 – Sonja Kesselschlaeger, German athlete
- 1979 – Will Young, British singer
- 1979 – Rob Bourdon, American musician (Linkin Park)
- 1981 – Owen Hargreaves, English footballer
- 1981 - Freddy Guzman, Dominican baseball player
- 1982 - Joe Swash, English actor
- 1983 – Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
- 1984 – Olivia Hallinan, English actress
- 1984 - Lil Scrappy, American rapper
- 1985 - Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress
- 1987 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2011)
- 1991 - Polona Hercog, Slovenian tennis player
- 1999 - Shannon Tavarez, American actress (d. 2010)
Deaths [change]
- 250 - Pope Fabian
- 1156 - Bishop Henry, Patron Saint of Finland
- 1191 - Fredrick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
- 1479 – King John II of Aragon (b. 1397)
- 1568 - Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator
- 1612 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552)
- 1666 – Anna of Austria (b. 1601)
- 1770 - Charles Yorke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)
- 1819 – King Charles IV of Spain (b. 1748)
- 1841 – Minh Mang, Vietnamese Emperor (b. 1791)
- 1848 – King Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)
- 1859 – Bettina von Arnim, German writer (b. 1785)
- 1891 – King David Kalakaua of Hawaii (b. 1836)
- 1892 – John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1819)
- 1900 – John Ruskin, English art critic (b. 1819)
- 1913 - Jose Guadalupe Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852)
- 1936 – King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
- 1940 - Omar Bundy, American general (b. 1861)
- 1957 – James Brendan Connolly, American athlete (b. 1865)
- 1971 - Minanogawa Tozo, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1903)
- 1973 – Amilcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissau politician (b. 1924)
- 1979 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (b. 1925)
- 1983 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
- 1984 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
- 1990 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)
- 1993 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born actress (b. 1929)
- 1994 – Matt Busby, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1909)
- 1996 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. 1927)
- 1998 – Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
- 2003 - Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b. 1903)
- 2005 – Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Miriam Rothschild, English conservationist (b. 1908)
- 2009 – Stephanos II Ghattas, Patriarch of the Egyptian Coptic Church (b. 1920)
- 2012 - Jiri Raska, Czech ski jumper (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Etta James, American singer (b. 1938)
Events [change]
- 250 - Emperor Decius begins widespread persecution of Christians in Rome
- 1265 – The English Parliament conducts its first meeting.
- 1320 - Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes King of Poland.
- 1356 – Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scotland.
- 1523 – Christian III is forced to abdicate the thrones of Denmark and Norway.
- 1576 - The city of Leon in Mexico is founded.
- 1649 – King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland goes on trial for treason and 'high crimes'.
- 1778 - James Cook lands on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i.
- 1788 - The third and main part of the First Fleet of convicts from Great Britain arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides to move the convict colony slightly further along the coast to Port Jackson, present-day Sydney, Australia.
- 1801 – John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1839 – Battle of Yungay: Chile defeats Peru and Bolivia.
- 1840 – Jules Dumont D'Urville's expedition to Antarctica discovers Adelie Land.
- 1841 – Hong Kong comes under British control.
- 1855 - LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents the roller coaster.
- 1887 - Off the Brazilian coast, British immigrant ship Kapunda collides with the barque Ada Melmore, causing it to sink within 5 minutes, killing 297 of the 313 people on board, including all women and children.
- 1887 - The United States Senate allows the United States Navy to lease Pearl Harbor, Hawaii as a naval base.
- 1892 - The first basketball game under rules invented by James Naismith takes place in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- 1920 - The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
- 1921 – Turkey's first Constitution is adopted.
- 1929 - In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released.
- 1934 – The Photography and Electronics Company Fujifilm is founded in Tokyo.
- 1936 – King George V of the United Kingdom dies. His son, Edward VIII succeeds him.
- 1937 – At his second inauguration, Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first US President to be inaugurated on January 20.
- 1942 – Senior Nazi officials meet at the Wannsee Conference, to plan the Holocaust.
- 1945 – World War II: Hungary agrees to an Armistice with the Allies.
- 1945 - World War II: Germany begins with the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia.
- 1949 – Harry S. Truman proposes Point Four program to help the world's less developed areas.
- 1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President of the United States; he is the first President from the Republican Party since Herbert Hoover left office in 1933.
- 1960 - Hendrik Verwoerd announces a vote on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
- 1961 – John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as President of the United States.
- 1969 - Richard Nixon becomes President of the United States.
- 1972 - Pakistan launches its nuclear weapons program.
- 1977 - Jimmy Carter becomes President of the United States.
- 1980 – Jimmy Carter announces that the US will not participate at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
- 1981 – The Iran hostage crisis ends within minutes of Ronald Reagan becoming US President.
- 1986 – In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is marked as a federal holiday for the first time.
- 1987 – Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon.
- 1989 – George H. W. Bush becomes President of the United States.
- 1990 – Soviet forces kill civilians in Baku, Azerbaijan.
- 1991 - Sudan's government imposes Islamic law around the country, worsening the civil war between the mainly Muslim North and mainly Christian South, which would become South Sudan in 2011.
- 1992 - Air Inter Flight 148 crashes near Strasbourg, France, killing 87 people.
- 1993 – Bill Clinton becomes President of the United States, as the first President from the Democrats since Jimmy Carter left office in 1981.
- 1996 – Yasser Arafat is elected Palestinian President.
- 1999 - The China News Service announces new government limits on internet use.
- 2001 – In a coup in the Philippines, Joseph Estrada is replaced as President by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
- 2001 – George W. Bush becomes President of the United States.
- 2006 - People report seeing a Bottlenose Whale in the Thames in London. It dies late the next day after failed attempts to lead it back to the sea.
- 2007 - A three-man team, only on skis and kites completes a 1759-kilometer (1093-mile) journey to the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, becoming the first people to do this without mechanical help.
- 2009 – Barack Obama becomes the first African American President of the United States.
- 2013 - Barack Obama starts his second term as President of the United States, becoming the third US President in a row to serve two terms in office.
Presidents of the United States inaugurated on January 20 [change]
- 1937 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1945 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1949 – Harry S. Truman
- 1953 – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1957 – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1961 – John F. Kennedy
- 1965 – Lyndon B. Johnson
- 1969 – Richard Nixon
- 1973 – Richard Nixon
- 1977 – Jimmy Carter
- 1981 – Ronald Reagan
- 1985 – Ronald Reagan
- 1989 – George H. W. Bush
- 1993 – Bill Clinton
- 1997 – Bill Clinton
- 2001 – George W. Bush
- 2005 – George W. Bush
- 2009 – Barack Obama
- 2013 - Barack Obama
