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20 Jan 2025
Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States of America.
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20 Jan 2025
Chinese start up DeepSeek launches AI model R1, with capabilities similar to other AI models but at a fraction of the cost, prompting experts to call it a "Sputnik moment".
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20 Jan 2025
Donald Trump Pulls US From World Health Organization.
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20 Jan 2023
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the Moon, married Anca Faur on his 93rd birthday.
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20 Jan 2017
Jacob Sartorius released his debut album, "The Last Text EP."
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20 Jan 2009
The USA's first African-American President, Barack Obama, conducted his first address.
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20 Jan 2008
The first episode of Breaking Bad premiered on AMC.
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20 Jan 1996
NASA mission STS-72 landed at the Kennedy Space Center after eight days in space.
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20 Jan 1992
Air Inter Flight 148 crashed in the Vosges Mountains in France while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport.
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20 Jan 1982
Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat that a fan threw onto the stage during a performance in Des Moines, Iowa.
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20 Jan 1981
US hostages were released in Iran after 444 days.
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20 Jan 1980
In a letter and on television, President Jimmy Carter announced that the Olympics should not take place in Moscow, Russia.
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20 Jan 1971
Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' single was released.
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20 Jan 1969
The killing of a student activist sets the stage for the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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20 Jan 1965
The classic song 'Mr. Tambourine Man' was recorded by The Byrds.
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20 Jan 1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first and last US President to serve four terms.
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20 Jan 1942
Nazi officials meet to organize the extermination of Jews.
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20 Jan 1934
Fujifilm is founded.
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20 Jan 1929
'In Old Arizona' became the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors.
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20 Jan 1869
Feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the first woman to testify before Congress.
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20 Jan 1809
The US published its first book on Geology – 'Observations on the Geology of the United States' by William Maclure.
