About January 20
January 20, 2024 is the 20th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 346 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 21 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
January 20: More About This Day
In the ancient astronomy, it was the cusp day between Capricorn and Aquarius. In some years it is Aquarius, but others Capricorn. It depends on the year.
What Happened On January 20
- 1320 –Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
- 1356 –Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scotland.
- 1576 –The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
- 1649 –Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other “high crimes”.
- 1885 –L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
- 1887 –The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
- 1921 –The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
- 1936 –Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom.
- 1941 –A Nazi officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.
- 1942 –World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”.
- 1945 –World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months.
- 1954 –The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
- 1972 –Pakistan launched its Nuclear detterent program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
- 1981 –Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U.S. President, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
- 1986 –Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
- 1987 –Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon.
- 1991 –Sudan’s government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country’s Muslim north and Christian south.
- 1992 –Air Inter Flight 148 crashes near Strasbourg, France, killing 82 passengers and five crew members.
- 2001 –Philippine president Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
- 2006 –Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913.
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