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
- 250 –Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian is martyred.
- 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”.
- 1320 –Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
- 1356 –Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scotland.
- 1502 –The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored.
- 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).
- 1885 –L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
- 1920 –The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
- 1934 –Fujifilm, the photographic and electronics company, is founded in Tokyo, Japan.
- 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: Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.
- 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.
- 1986 –Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
- 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.
- 2007 –A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1093 mi trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
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