01-20-2005, 06:28 AM
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January 20th
1892 ~ At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game was played.
1907 ~ Death of Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic table.
1930 ~ Birthday of Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut.
1937 ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. This was the first inauguration scheduled on January 20, following adoption of the 20th Amendment. Previous inaugurations were scheduled on March 4.
1942 ~ World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decided the "final solution to the Jewish problem".
1969 ~ The first pulsar is discovered, in the Crab Nebula.
1984 ~ Death of Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic swimming gold medalist & Actor (Tarzan).
1991 ~ Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
1993 ~ Death of Audrey Hepburn, actress.
2005 ~ George W. Bush inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
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