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Historical Events
on January 20th
- Lead Story
- 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
- Mud March begins,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
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