TODAY HISTORY LESSON: JANUARY 20
0820 Book of mother, published
1265 First English Parliament summoned other than by royal command (in this instance by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester) mets in Westminster Hall
1327 Edward II of England is deposed by his eldest son, Edward III.
1616 The French explorer Samuel de Champlain arrives to winter in a Huron Indian village after being wounded in a battle with Iroquois in New France.
1778 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge MA
1801 John Marshall was appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
1841 China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War
1885 LaMarcus A. Thompson of Coney Island patented the roller coaster.
1908 The Sullivan Ordinance bars women from smoking in public facilities in the United States.
1934 Fujifilm is founded
1941 Hitler meets with Mussolini and offers aid in Albania and Greece.
1942 Nazi officials meet in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to decide the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.”
1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for his fourth term.
1946 France’s Charles DeGaulle hands in his resignation.
1949 President Truman announces his point 4 program
1949 J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen
1965 Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain
1969 The killing of a student activist sets the stage for the Bangladesh Liberation War
1977 President Jimmy Carter is sworn in and then surprises the nation as he walks from the U.S. Capitol to the White House.
1980 President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow
1981 Ronald Reagan is sworn in as president at the same time 52 American hostages are released from their captors in Tehran, Iran.
1986 New footage of the 1931 “Frankenstein” was found. The footage was originally deleted because it was considered to be too shocking.
1987 Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite was kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon. He was there attempting to negotiate the release of Western hostages. He was not freed until November 1991.
1994 Shannon Faulkner became the first woman to attend classes at The Citadel in South Carolina. Faulkner joined the cadet corps in August 1995 under court order but soon dropped out
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars’ orbit
1999 The China News Service announced that the Chinese government was tightening restrictions on internet use. The rules were aimed at ‘Internet Bars.’
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
