Today is Friday, January 20, the 20th day of 2012. There are 346 days left in the year.
820 ― Book of mother, published
1265 ― First English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester
1841 ― China cedes Hong Kong to the British
1921 ― Turkey declared in remnants of the Ottoman Empire
1934 ― Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria
1939 ― Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews
1945 ― FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented fourth-term as president
1989 ― Reagan becomes first president elected in a ``0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
1980 ― President Jimmy Carter announces U.S. boycott of Olympics in Moscow
1998 ― Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mamas & Papas, Eagles