Sunday, January 20, 2019

On This Day in History

January 20, 2019

Historical Events

1265  First English Parliament summoned other than by royal command (in this instance by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester) mets in Westminster Hall
1841  China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War
1921  Republic of Turkey declared out of remnants of Ottoman Empire
1942  Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin to organise the "final solution", the extermination of Europe's Jews
1945  Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President
1981  Ronald Reagan inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America
2009  Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president
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