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.
- 1356 –Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scotland.
- 1502 –The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored.
- 1649 –Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other “high crimes”.
- 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.
- 1839 –In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
- 1841 –Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
- 1885 –L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
- 1934 –Fujifilm, the photographic and electronics company, is founded in Tokyo, Japan.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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