1/20/2023 2:20:00 AM Today In History - January 20
Reprinted By Permission From OnThisDay.com
Today in History in 1870 Hiram R. Revels was elected to fill the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis as U.S. Senator for Mississippi (Revels once lived in Lincolnton, N.C.); and it was Inauguration Day for Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945), John F. Kennedy (1961), Richard Nixon (1969), Ronald Reagan (1981), Bill Clinton (1993) and in 2009 Barack Obama.
Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:
Historical Events
1265 - The first Parliament of England summoned other than by royal command (in this instance by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester) met in Westminster Hall
1801 - John Marshall appointed US chief justice
1841 - China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War
1870 - Hiram R. Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis as US Senator for Mississippi
1887 - US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
1936 - Edward VIII succeeds British king George V
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 4th term as US President
1961 - Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration
1961 - The Democrat J.F. Kennedy is inaugurated as President of the United States, the youngest ever sworn in
1969 - Richard M Nixon inaugurated as US president
1981 - Ronald Reagan inaugurated as 40th US President
1989 - Reagan becomes 1st president elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
1993 - Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd US President
2009 - Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president
Famous Birthdays
1888 - Lead Belly, Louisiana, blues 12 string guitarist (Rock Island Line), (d. 1949)
1896 - George Burns, [Nathan Birnbaum], actor/comedian (Oh God), born in NYC, New York
1920 - DeForest Kelley, actor (Dr McCoy-Star Trek), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1926 - Patricia Neal, Packard Ky, actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses), (d. 2010)
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