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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2010

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1265 _ First English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester

1783 _ Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War

1807 _ Napoleon convenes the great Sanhedrin, Paris

1841 _ China cedes Hong Kong to the British

1892 _ First basketball game played (Massachusetts)

1921 _ Turkey declared in remnants of the Ottoman Empire

1925 _ USSR and Japan sign treaty of Peking

1939 _ Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews

1945 _ FDR sworn in for an unprecedented fourth term as President

1980 _ President Jimmy Carter announces U_S_ boycott of Olympics in Moscow