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Events on January 20

• 1404 A charter on display in a monastery near Arnstadt in Thuringia is considered the first mention of the Thuringian bratwurst.
• 1885 The American LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents the first operational roller coaster.
• 1892 The first basketball game takes place under the rules of its inventor James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 1942 At the Großer Wannsee in Berlin, a conference convened by Reinhard Heydrich takes place, at which organizational questions concerning a “Final Solution to the Jewish question,” the Holocaust, are discussed. Adolf Eichmann is the rapporteur of the conference.
• 1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower hands over the office of President of the United States to John F. Kennedy.
• 1966 In Berlin-Köpenick, the football club 1. FC Union Berlin is founded after the FDGB chairman Herbert Warnke has advocated for a civilian association of workers.
• 1969 Two armed men break into an ammunition depot of the German armed forces in Lebach, Saarland, and commit the sensational murder of soldiers in Lebach. The perpetrators are later arrested following an appeal for information on the ZDF program Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst.
• 1981 With the release of the hostages held at the U.S. embassy, the 444-day hostage crisis in Tehran ends.
• 1995 The cable-stayed bridge Pont de Normandie, the bridge with the greatest span in Europe, is inaugurated between Le Havre and Honfleur near the mouth of the Seine.
• 2009 The Democrat Barack Obama, elected on November 4 of the previous year, is sworn in by Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts as the first African American President of the United States.
• 2013 In the first national referendum, the population votes in favor of retaining compulsory military service in Austria.
• 2021 The Democrat Joe Biden, elected on November 3 of the previous year, is sworn in as President of the United States.

Born on January 20

• 1865 Josef Fischer, German racing cyclist, first winner of Paris-Roubaix
• 1910 Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician
• 1920 Federico Fellini, Italian filmmaker and director
• 1920 DeForest Kelley, American actor
• 1930 Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut, second person on the Moon
• 1960 Will Wright, American computer game developer
• 1971 Gary Barlow, British singer and songwriter
• 1980 Felicitas Woll, German actress
• 1981 Owen Hargreaves, Canadian football player
• 2000 Mike Singer, German pop singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „20. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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