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 organize 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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