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Notable anniversaries in history for today: January 20
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Tom Baker; actor (Angels Die Hard, Vault of Horror).
- 90th: 1934 - Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Eddie Shah; English publisher (Today, Post).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Isao Okano in Japan; middleweight judo (Olympics-gold-1964).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Lieven Soete; Dutch publicist (Molotov-Ribbentrop pact).
- 80th: 1944 - British Royal Air Force drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin, Germany.
- 80th: 1944 - The Soviet Red Army captures Novgorod.
- 80th: 1944 - The German siege of Leningrad is lifted.
- 70th: 1954 - -70 degrees F (-57 degrees C), Rogers Pass, Montana (state 48 record).
- 70th: 1954 - Fred Root, cricket player (England pace bowler in three Tests vs Australia 1926), dies.
- 70th: 1954 - Warren Bardsley, cricket player (41 Tests for Australia, 2469 runs), dies.
- 70th: 1954 - The General Motors' Motorama show goes on display at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Chevrolet shows the Corvette Nomad prototype, with Corvette front and station wagon back. Chevrolet also shows a cherry red Corvair prototype, a two-seat fastback coupe with a Corvette front end. The name is a combination of "Corvette" and "Bel Air". Oldsmobile shows the F-88 two-seater convertible with fiberglass body. Pontiac shows the Bonneville Special, a two-seater with fiberglass body, straight 8-cylinder engine, mostly clear roof, similar headlights to Corvette.
- 60th: 1964 - "Meet The Beatles" album released in US.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Ozzie Guillen in Oculare del Tuy, Venezuela; shortstop (Chicago White Sox).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Roger Smith in Freeport, Bahamas; tennis doubles player.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Ron Harper; NBA guard (Chicago Bulls).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Victoria Sellers in London, England; actress (Crime Zone, Warlords).
- 50th: 1974 - 4th NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-13.
- 50th: 1974 - 7th ABA All-Star Game: East 128 beats West 112 at Virginia.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Calvin Harrison in Orlando, Florida, USA; 200m/400m runner.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Rae Carruth; wide receiver (Carolina Panthers).
- 50th: 1974 - Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic, dies at age 77.
- 50th: 1974 - Essex Community College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball.
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Peter John [Johnny] Weissmuller at age 79 after a series of strokes in Acapulco, Mexico; Austrian-born swimmer and actor (Tarzan, Jungle Jim).
- 40th: 1984 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners.
- 30th: 1994 - Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan Vice-President (1963-66), dies at about age 81.
- 30th: 1994 - Matt Busby, Scottish soccer coach (Manchester United), dies at age 84 (born 1909).
- 25th: 1999 - The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafes.
- 20th: 2004 - Cargo vessel Rocknes capsizes off Bergen, Norway, spilling several thousand litres of oil and bunker fuel along the coastline.
- 15th: 2009 - Italian carmaker Fiat and American carmaker Chrysler agree to a global strategic alliance. Fiat will get a 35 percent stake in Chrysler, which will get access to Fiat's fuel-efficient vehicle technologies.
- 15th: 2009 - Israeli troops complete their pullout from Gaza, ending their 22-day offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
- 15th: 2009 - The Bank of Canada cuts borrowing costs to a record low to one percent. The previous record low was 1.12 percent in 1958.
- 15th: 2009 - Barack Hussein Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Stéphanos II Ghattas, Egyptian Patriarch of Alexandria (born 1920).
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