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, 1841

FDR inaugurated to fourth term, 1945

John F. Kennedy inaugurated, 1961

Terry Waite disappears,1987

Arafat 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, 1969

New communist offensive anticipated,1972

WORLD WAR I

Goeben and Breslau battle the Allies in the Aegean, 1918

WORLD WAR II

The Wannsee Conference, 1942