January 20th: This Day In History
Iran Hostage Crisis ends,1981
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Battle of Millstone, New Jersey, 1777
AUTOMOTIVE
GM takes an interest in Oakland Motor Car Corp.,1909
CIVIL WAR
Union General Burnside's troops get bogged down in mud, 1863
COLD WAR
Truman announces Point Four program, 1949
CRIME
Football player-turned-murderer born, 1974
DISASTER
Bullfight spectators die when bleachers collapse, 1980
GENERAL INTEREST
Hong Kong ceded to the British, 1841FDR inaugurated to fourth term, 1945John F. Kennedy inaugurated, 1961Terry Waite disappears,1987Arafat elected leader of Palestine, 1996
HOLLYWOOD
Actress Audrey Hepburn dies, 1993
LITERARY
Robert Frost reads at JFK's inauguration, 1961
MUSIC
Country star Jerry Lee Lewis rocks the Grand Ole Opry, 1973
OLD WEST
Ronald Reagan becomes president, 1981
PRESIDENTIAL
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is sworn in as president, 1937
SPORTS
President Carter calls for Olympics to be moved from Moscow, 1980
VIETNAM WAR
Richard Nixon takes office, 1969New communist offensive anticipated,1972
WORLD WAR I
Goeben and Breslau battle the Allies in the Aegean, 1918
WORLD WAR II
The Wannsee Conference, 1942
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