January 20th

The January 20th is the 20th Jour of the Année of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 345 days before the end of the year.

Every 4 years, it is this day that the Inauguration Day is held (the 21 if 20 tomb one Sunday), the nomination of the president of the United States according to his election of November.

Events

1 with 1900

  • 1144 : Geoffroy Plantagenêt, count d' Anjou and of the Maine is established duke of Normandy to Rouen.

  • 1265 : The English Parliament meets for the first time.
  • 1531 : Foundation of the town of Sao Sebastiao of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro).
  • 1309 : In the bubble “ Vita perennis gloria ”, fulminated this day, the pope Clément V recognizes the authentic character of the relics of Saint Gaudens, martyr of the Visigoths about the year 475, and grants many indulgences to encourage the pilgrimages with the sanctuary.
  • 1320 : Ladislas I {{er}} the Brief is crowned king de Pologne with Cracow.
  • 1503 : with Seville: Foundation of the “Put of Contratación” , which will have the role, inter alia, to supervise the activities and especially the expenditure of Christophe Colomb.
  • 1613 : Northern Europe: the peace of Knäred puts an end to the war between the Sweden and the Denmark. Knäred
  • 1783 : The England sign respectively with the France and the Spain of the preliminaries of peace.
  • 1790 : The count Maximilien-Auguste Bleickard d' Helmstatt (1728 - 1802), appointed of the nobility for the Bailliage of Sarreguemines, attached to the Old Mode and refusing to follow the reforming majority, gives his resignation of the constituent Assembly.
  • 1793 : Assassination of Louis-Michel Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, appointed Convention, because he had voted the death of Louis XVI.
  • 1819 : Francfort-sur-le-Main: Karl von Stein founds the Société of History of Germany , which will publish the collection of the Monumenta Germanea historica .
  • 1831 : The Conference of London allots the totality of the Luxembourg, the part of the Limbourg in the east of the Meuse and Maastricht with the king of the Netherlands and decides that the Belgium will be a perpetually neutral State under the guarantee of the five powers (the United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, France, Prussia, Russia).
  • 1839 : The Chile gains the battles of Yungay against the federation Peru - Uruguay, which is dissolved.
  • 1841 : Hong-Kong becomes British.
  • 1848 : Denmark: Frederic VII succeeds his father Christian VIII.
  • 1884 : Construction of the Russian first mechanical Mountains and in circuit, with Coney Island, close to New York.
  • 1887 : The New Zealand appendix the islands Kermadec.
  • 1892 :

20th century

  • 1910 : France: After one long period of Rain, the France is under water: floods in Seine-et-Marne, in the East, the Loiret, in Normandy, in the the Alps, in Brittany and with Paris, where the the Seine overflowed. The Parisian ones improvise bridges of boards and fit boots. This day, one goes to the Gare Saint-Lazare for the pleasure in boat and of the boats transport the deputies.

  • 1925 : Signature of an alliance enters the Soviet Union and the Japan.
  • 1942 : Conference of Wannsee, the Nazi S adopt the final solution.
  • 1944 : Institution of Course of exception to judge the “terrorists”.
  • 1946 : Resignation of the general de Gaulle, chief of the Provisional government of the French Republic.
  • 1949 : In his traditional speech on the state of the Union, the president of the the United States, Harry Truman, pronounces for the first time the expression “underdeveloped” in connection with the countries which did not reach the industrial stage yet.
  • 1958 :
    • Algiers revolts.
    • the Soviet Union threat the Greece of economic sanctions, if it accepts the installation of missiles of NATO on its territory.
  • 1960 : Beginning of the Roundtable of Brussels: A conference on the Belgian Congo, joined together with Brussels, decides on a whole independence for the territory.
  • 1961 : John F. Kennedy becomes the 38 ème President of the the United States and known as: “Do not ask what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country”.
  • 1968 : The Iraqi president Abdul Rahman Arif is reversed and a new government is set up at Baghdad by Ahmad Hassan Al-Bakr.
  • 1976 : Palestinian militia massacre hundreds of inhabitants Lebanon Christian boards of the town of Damour during the Guerre of Lebanon
  • 1977:
  • 1981 :
    • Ronald Reagan succeeds Jimmy Carter like 40 ème president of the the United States.
    • Teheran has released the 52 American hostages prisoners for 444 days in the American embassy. The hostages had been stopped the November 4th 1979 when Iran iens had seized the American embassy with Teheran.
    • Tom Robin Edelston, artist of flying trapezoid, carries out a double somersault with triple bores caught up with without problem by John Zimmermann.
    • Metge and Giroux gains their third Paris-Dakar in Range Rover whereas Hubert Auriol gains the race motor bike over BMW.
  • 1983 : Jacky Ickx and Claude Brasseur gains the fifth Paris-Dakar.
  • 1984 : Victoire of Rene Metge at the time of the sixth Paris-Dakar. Gaston Rahier, in motor bike, as much.
  • 1985 : The Israeli forces begin their fold of the Lebanon.
  • 1986 : British the French Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and president François Mitterrand agree that a double railway tunnel will connect the towns of Dover and of Calais in 1993. One of the tunnels will be reserved for the high-speed trains, the other with the rail-bound transport of the cars and the buses. The construction of these underground tunnels already was the two project object, one in the years 1870 and the other in the years 1970, both cancelled for political reasons and economic.
  • 1987 :
    • Claude Béland, a 55 year old lawyer, is elected with the head of the Mouvement Desjardins.
    • the Britannique Terry Waite is kidnapped with Beirut, where it was within the framework of a mission for the Church Anglican. The Organization of revolutionary Justice will recognize removal, showing Waite to be a spy with the pay of the United States. The prisoner will be finally released the November 18th 1991.
    • the Iran iens launch a Ground-to-ground missile on Baghdad and tackle with the rocket an oil complex with Al Basra.
  • 1989 : George Bush lends oath like 41e president of the the United States.
  • 1990 : Ben Johnson, athlete Canadian of origin Jamaïcaine, is private of all its titles and records by the Canadian Fédération of athletics due to doping.
  • 1992 : A Airbus A320 of Air Inter transporting 96 people is crushed on the Mont Sainte-Odile, close to Strasbourg in France making 87 dead.
  • 1993 : Nomination of Bill Clinton like 42ème president of the the United States.
  • 1995 : Inauguration of the bridge of Normandy, which crosses of only one jump the estuary of the Seine between Le Havre and Honfleur. The work, supplemented after 7 years of work, comprises a 2 kilometers long roadway and a central span of 856 meters, world records in the category of the bridges stayed girder.
  • 1996 :
    • First visit of State of a French president, Jacques Chirac, with the the Holy See since that which had carried out the Général de Gaulle in 1959.
    • election of Yasser Arafat to the first general elections Palestinian, intended to appoint a president and the eighty eight members of the Council of Palestinian Autonomy.
  • 1997 :
    • the Zaire declares the war with the rebels in the east of the country to take again the territories lost along its Eastern border.
    • the US president William Jefferson Clinton lends oath to Washington for a second and last four years mandate.
  • 1998 : Re-election of Václav Havel with the head of the Czech Republic.
  • 1999 :
    • with Ambon, in Indonesia, twenty died during confrontations between catholics and Moslems.
    • with Buenos Aires, arrest of the former president of the Argentinian dictatorship, the general Reynaldo Bignone.

21e century

  • 2000 : with Rennes, reopening of the Parlement of Brittany destroys by a fire in February 1994.

  • 2001 :
  • 2005 : Nomination of George W. Bush for its second mandate of president, following his victory vis-a-vis John Kerry in November 2004.
  • 2006 : For the first time since the beginning of the scientific observations in 1913, a whale is seen in the the Thames with London. Measuring 5 to 6 meters length and weighing several tons, the Mammifère belonged to the protected space of the Baleines to nozzle communes. The idlers were numerous to be pressed along the banks to follow the attempts of the rescue which will have unfortunately been vain, the succumbing animal of convulsions the following day.
  • 2007 : Avian flu: 62e died in Indonesia, 11th death in Egypt.

Births

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Death

Celebrations

  • Festival of the Sebastien, Bastien, Fabien and Fabienne

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Euthyme Large the († 473), abbot in Palestine.
  • Sebastien of Rome († 287), Roman martyr.
  • Fabien (+ 250), pope.

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Euthyme of the Caves of Kiev (14th century), recluse.
  • Zacharie de Patras († 1782), néo-martyr.

See too

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