{"id":17895,"date":"2024-01-20T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T23:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=17895"},"modified":"2024-01-16T18:14:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T12:44:12","slug":"history-of-20-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-20-january\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 20 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>History of 20 January&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> &#8211; Iran released 52 Americans that had been held hostage for 444 days. The hostages were flown to Algeria and then to a U.S. base in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The release occurred minutes after the&nbsp;U.S. presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> &#8211; The most-watched Super Bowl game in history was seen by an estimated 115.9 million people. The San Francisco 49ers defeated the Miami Dolphins, 38-16. Super Bowl XIX marked the first time that TV commercials sold for a million dollars a minute.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> &#8211; The&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> &#8211; Britain and France announced their plans to build the Channel Tunnel.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> &#8211; New footage of the 1931 &#8220;Frankenstein&#8221; was found. The footage was originally deleted because it was considered to be too shocking.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> &#8211; Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite was kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon. He was there attempting to negotiate the release of Western hostages. He was not freed until November 1991.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> &#8211; Shannon Faulkner became the first woman to attend classes at The Citadel in&nbsp;South Carolina. Faulkner joined the cadet corps in August 1995 under court order but soon dropped out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong> &#8211; Yasser Arafat was elected president of the Palestinian Authority and his supporters won two thirds of the 80 seats in the Legislative Council.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; Bill Clinton was inaugurated for his second term as president of the&nbsp;United States.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; American researchers announced that they had cloned calves that may produce medicinal milk.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; In Chile, a judge agreed to hear a lawsuit that accused Chile&#8217;s former dictator Augusto Pinochet with genocide.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; The China News Service announced that the Chinese government was tightening restrictions on internet use. The rules were aimed at &#8216;Internet Bars.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; Greece and Turkey signed five accords aimed to build confidence between the two nations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; Michael Jordan (Washington Wizards) played his first game in Chicago as a visiting player. The Wizards beat the Bulls 77-69.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 A gang of thieves&nbsp;steal \u00a326.5 million&nbsp;worth of currency from the&nbsp;Donegall Square&nbsp;West headquarters of&nbsp;Northern Bank&nbsp;in&nbsp;Belfast,&nbsp;Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest&nbsp;bank robberies&nbsp;in British history.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2007<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Elizabeth II&nbsp;becomes the oldest monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing&nbsp;Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, seven months and 29 days.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2007<\/strong> \u2013 The&nbsp;<em>Portrait of Suzanne Bloch<\/em>&nbsp;(1904), by the Spanish artist&nbsp;Pablo Picasso, and&nbsp;<em>O Lavrador de Caf\u00e9<\/em>&nbsp;by Brazilian modernist painter&nbsp;C\u00e2ndido Portinari, are stolen from the&nbsp;S\u00e3o Paulo Museum of Art.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 The&nbsp;United States Space Force&nbsp;becomes the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces since 1947.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Royal Ivey, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Darya Pchelnik, Belarusian hammer thrower<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;James Shields, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Mohammad Asif, Pakistani cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;David Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;David Wright, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Jonah Hill, American actor, producer, and screenwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Darren Sammy, Saint Lucian cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Nikolaos Karabelas, Greek footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;JoJo, American singer and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Jillian Rose Reed, American actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Fabian Sch\u00e4r, Swiss footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Robeisy Ram\u00edrez, Cuban boxer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 20 January&nbsp; 1981 &#8211; Iran released 52 Americans that had been held hostage for 444 days. The hostages were flown to Algeria and then to a U.S. base in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The release occurred minutes after the&nbsp;U.S. presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan. 1985 &#8211; The most-watched Super Bowl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1015,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-17895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-20-january","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-4ED","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23401,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895\/revisions\/23401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}