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
- 1265 –In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting held by Simon de Montfort in the Palace of Westminster, now also known colloquially as the “Houses of Parliament”.
- 1356 –Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scotland.
- 1523 –Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
- 1783 –The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence).
- 1839 –In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
- 1841 –Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
- 1920 –The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
- 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.
- 1929 –In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1990 –On Black Saturday, the Red Army kills Azerbaijani civilians in Baku.
- 1991 –Sudan’s government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country’s Muslim north and Christian south.
- 1999 –The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use, aimed especially at Internet cafés.
- 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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