TODAY’S HISTORY
1801
John Marshall appointed US chief justice
1807
Napoleon convenes great Sanhedrin, Paris
1840
Dutch King Willem II crowned
1869
Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before
US Congress
1887
US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
1914
The first group of Transvaal Indian women satyagrahis are
released from Pietermaritzburg Prison in South Africa after three months
imprisonment
1920
The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
1921
Republic of Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire
1925
The Soviet and Japan sign a convention resuming relations:
Russia agrees to limit revolutionary activity of the Third Communist International,
while Japan agrees to leave the Sakhalin
1936
Edward VIII succeeds British king George V
1937
1st US Presidential Inauguration day held on Jan 20th
1942
Japanese invade Burma
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
1949
US President Harry Truman announces his four point program
1952
British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone
1954
The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter
member radio stations.
1954
The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter
member radio stations.
1958
A group attempting the 1st surface crossing of Antarctic
join up at the South Pole
1961
Yugoslav ex-vice-president Milovan Djilas flees
1965
The US Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposes modified Apollo
flight to fly around Mars & return
1965
Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish
representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain
1969
Richard M Nixon inaugurated as US president
1972
Six oil exporting countries conclude meetings with Western
oil companies
1973
A car bomb explodes in Sackville
1979
1 million Iranians march in Tehran
1981
52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed
1981
Ronald Reagan inaugurated as 40th US President
1983
American gangster Roy DeMeo is found murdered in his car
trunk after disappearing a few days earlier
1988
Andre Hoffman skates world record 1,500m (1:52.06)
1989
George H. W. Bush inaugurated as 41st US President
1990
US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns
from space
1991
US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles
1996
Australia defeat Sri Lanka 2-0 to win cricket's World Series
Cup
1998
Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tuesday night programming
2008
NFC Championship Game: New York Giants beat Green Bay
Packers 23-20 (OT)
2009
Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the
United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American
president
2014
Credit cards of at least 20 million South Koreans are hacked
2017
Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the
United States of America
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
1716
King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1834
George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1880
Walter W. Bacon, American politician (d. 1962)
1893
Georg Åberg, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1896
Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
1903
Leon Ames, Portland Indiana, actor (Mr Ed, Father of the
Bride)
1908
Ian Peebles, cricketer (Scottish leg-spinner, England
1927-31)
1910
Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician
1914
Wensley Pithey, Cape Town South Africa, actor (Winston
Churchill-Ike)
1919
Stepan Lucky, composer
1920
Federico Fellini, Italian film director and scriptwriter
1926
David Eugene Tudor, composer, born in Philadelphi,
Pennsylvania
1926
Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist
1930
Edwin Aldrin, Astronaut
1932
Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player, born in Guelph,
Ontario (d. 2016)
1939
Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, Indian astronomer
1940
Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
1944
Isao Okano, Japan, middleweight judo (Olympic-gold-1964)
1950
Mahamane Ousmane, President of Niger
1956
Bill Maher, American comedian and political commentator
1964
Victoria Sellers, actress (Crime Zone, Warlords), born in
London, England
1969
Melissa Rivers, American TV hostess (MTV, CBS Morning News),
born in NYC, New York
1970
Anita St Rose, Miss Universe-Great Britain (1996)
1971
Brian Giles, American baseball player
1978
Joy Giovanni, American actress and glamour model
1981
Christine Bleakley, BBC Television Host
1983
Paula Taylor, English-Thai actress, model and presenter
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