January 20<\/p>\n
250 \u2013 Pope Fabian is martyred during the persecution of Roman emperor Decius for failing to perform sacrifices to the Roman gods.<\/p>\n
1265 \u2013 The first English parliament to include commoner representatives of the major towns holds its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster<\/p>\n
1567 \u2013 Portuguese forces under the command of Est\u00e1cio de S\u00e1 drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n
1649 \u2013 The trial of Charles I of England at the High Court of Justice begins<\/p>\n
1783 \u2013 Great Britain signs preliminary articles of peace with France, setting the stage for the official end of the Revolutionary War later in the year.<\/p>\n
1887 \u2013 The U.S. Senate ratifies a treaty allowing the U.S. Navy to lease Pearl Harbor Hawaii as a naval base.<\/p>\n
1909 \u2013 Automaker General Motors buys into the Oakland Motor Car Company, at\u00a0Pontiac, Michigan, which later becomes GM’s Pontiac division.<\/p>\n
1929 \u2013 The first full length talking motion picture, In Old Arizona<\/em>, is released.<\/p>\n 1937 \u2013 Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 At a conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, Nazi officials discuss the implementation of the “Final Solution to the Jewish question”.<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 John F. Kennedy is inaugurated the 35th President of the United States of America, the youngest man to date elected to that office.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 20 minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America, Iran releases 52 American hostages.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 Joe Biden becomes the oldest person, at age 78, to take the oath of office of the President of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 20 250 \u2013 Pope Fabian is martyred during the persecution of Roman emperor Decius for failing to perform sacrifices to the Roman gods. 1265 \u2013 The first English parliament to include commoner representatives of the major towns holds its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster 1567 \u2013 Portuguese forces under the command of … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64023"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89425,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64023\/revisions\/89425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}