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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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: Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1992 –Air Inter Flight 148 crashes near Strasbourg, France, killing 82 passengers and five crew members.
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