20 January In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, January 20 is the day number 20 in a given year. January 20 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1156	According to legend, freeholder Lalli slew Bishop Henry of Finland with an axe on the ice of the lake Köyliönjärvi in Köyliö, Finland.
1265	Summoned by Simon de Montfort, the first English Parliament held its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster.
1576	León in Guanajuato, Mexico, was founded by order of ViceroyMartín Enríquez de Almanza of New Spain.
1785	Tây Son forces of Vietnam annihilated an invading Siamese Army who were attempting to restore Nguy?n Ánh to the throne.
1817	Raja Ram Mohan Roy established the Hindu College now Presidency University in Calcutta, Kolkata).
1821	Peter Eye Island in Antarctica was first noticed by Fabian Gottlieb von Belsinghozen, founded by President Monroe to Columbia College in the District of Columbia.
1841	In the First Opium War, China handed over Hong Kong to Britain.
1843	Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná, became thede facto first prime minister of the Empire of Brazil.
1843	Royal Academy Technical Hague Court) opened in Delft.
1869	Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first woman to testify from the United States Congress.
1892	Basketball was played for the first time.
1894	German inventor and music expert Odolf Sachs died at the age of 75.
1930	Aldrin stepped on the moon, he was the second person to go to the moon.
1938	Queen Farida of Cairo was married by King Farooq Safinj Zulfisar of Egypt.
1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt became the US President for the fourth time.
1945	World War II-Germany began the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, an operation which took nearly two months to complete.
1946	French President Charles de Goule resigned from his post.
1946	Favouring stronger executive power than the draft constitution for the French Fourth Republic provided, Charles de Gaulle resigned as President of the Provisional Government.
1958	The search party met at the South Pole with a mission to cross the Antarctic. It was the first attempt to cross the Antarctic from the surface.
1965	Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as President of the United States.
1968	The Houston Cougars upset the UCLA Bruins in what became knownas the 'Game of the Century', ending the Bruins' 47-game winning streak,and establishing college basketball as a sports commodity on Americantelevision.
1969	Richard Nixon was sworn in as the 37th President of the United States.
1969	Bengali student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman was shot and killed by East Pakistani police, one of the casus belli that led to the Bangladesh Liberation War.
1972	Arunachal Pradesh became a union territory and Meghalaya a state.
1974	The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon made its first flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1988	Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the greatest activist of Pashtun independence and called Frontier Gandhi, died.
1990	The Soviet Red Army violently cracked down on Azeri pro-independence demonstrations in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR.
1992	Air Inter Flight 148 crash into the Vosges Mountains while cycling to land at Strasbourg Airport near Strasbourg, France,resulting in 87 deaths.
1993	Bill Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States.
1997	The newly discovered comet Hale-Bopp crossed Mars orbit at 6:00 PM.
1997	Pakistan defeated West Indies 2-0 thereby winning one-day Australian series.
1998	Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tuesday night programming.
2001	US President George W. Bush succeeded in getting the presidency after a tough fight with Ale Gore in the presidential election. It was the most powerful electoral battle in the history of America.
2001	George Bush sworn in as the 43rd President of U.S.
2002	Photographs of inmates of Cuban US military base Guantanamo Bay in prison became public for the first time. There was a lot of controversy about it.
2005	Famous Bollywood actress Parveen Bobby of the 70s and 80s passed away.
2007	A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958, and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
2009	Barack Obama took over as America's 44th President.
2009	Barack Obama sworn in as the 44th President of U.S.
2009	In Washington, D.C., over 1 million people attended the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African American President of the United States.
2010	6.1 magnitude aftershock stroked Haiti just after heavy earthquake.
2011	Scientists have claimed that 2010 was the warmest ever recorded in 200 years.
2012	Around 2000 Malawi women protested against attacks on women wearing trousers by unemployed youths and street vendors.
2013	US President Barack Obama inaugurated the Blue Room of the White House, this is the 2nd term in his office.
2014	The social security numbers and credit card details were stolen in South Korea by an IT contractor.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1820	Indiana University Bloomington was established as Indiana State Seminary renamed Indiana College, 1846).
1990	The conflict between Indian soldiers and Muslim separatists began in Kashmir.
2008	Bollywood actor Devananda was awarded the 'Lifetime Achievement Award ' for his contribution to Indian cinema.

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1927	Qurratulain Hyder / Journalist / India
1940	Krishnam Raju / Politician / India
1982	Ruchi Sanghvi / Engineer / India

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