About January 20
January 20, 2025 is the 20th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 345 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 9 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.
- 1502 –The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored.
- 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”.
- 1788 –The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson.
- 1801 –John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1920 –The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
- 1929 –In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released.
- 1934 –Fujifilm, the photographic and electronics company, is founded in Tokyo, Japan.
- 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”.
- 1949 –Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
- 1959 –The first flight of the Vickers Vanguard.
- 1960 –Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
- 1969 –East Pakistani police kill student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman. The resulting outrage is in part responsible for the Bangladesh Liberation War.
- 1972 –Pakistan launched its Nuclear detterent program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
- 1992 –Air Inter Flight 148 crashes near Strasbourg, France, killing 82 passengers and five crew members.
- 1999 –The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use, aimed especially at Internet cafés.
- 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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