Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 20

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  Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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  Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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  Władysław I of Poland
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  Simon de Montfort
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  Palace of Westminster
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  Palace of Westminster
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  Charles de Gaulle
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  Reinhard Heydrich
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  Honório Carneiro Leão
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  German refugees
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  2009 inauguration of Barack Obama
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  Icelandic financial crisis protesters
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  Roller coasters

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Army Day in Mali	refimprove
; Inauguration Day in the United States (2025)	too many citations needed
1320 – After reuniting Poland, [[Władysław I Łokietek|Template:Nowrap Łokietek]] was crowned king in Kraków.	refimprove
1523 – Christian II was forced to abdicate as both king of Denmark and king of Norway.	refimprove section
1576 – León in Guanajuato, Mexico, was founded by order of Viceroy Martín Enríquez de Almanza of New Spain.	refimprove section
1785 – Tây Sơn forces of Vietnam annihilated an invading Siamese army who were attempting to restore Nguyễn Ánh to the throne.	refimprove section
1839 – Chilean troops decisively defeated the forces of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation at the Battle of Yungay in the Ancash Region of Peru, effectively ending the War of the Confederation.	refimprove/unreferenced sections
1877 – The Constantinople Conference concluded with the Great Powers declaring the need for political reforms, which the Ottoman Empire refused to undertake, later resulting in the Russo-Turkish War.	Date uncited
1885 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson, sometimes called the "Father of the Gravity Ride", patented the roller coaster (pictured).	per this report at ERRORS, no references for patents on this date.
1921 – The first Turkish Constitution was ratified by the Grand National Assembly, enshrining the principle of national sovereignty.	refimprove
1946 – Favouring stronger executive power than the draft constitution for the French Fourth Republic provided, Charles de Gaulle resigned as president of the Provisional Government.	refimprove sections
1980 – The United States announced it would boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow unless the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan within one month.	unreferenced section
1981 – Iran hostage crisis: Iran released the final 52 American hostages after 444 days in captivity.	appears on November 4
2001 – As a result of the EDSA Revolution of 2001, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo succeeded into the presidency after her predecessor, Joseph Estrada, resigned from office.	refimprove section
Myles Coverdale |d|1569|	Too much uncited
Naomi Parker Fraley |d|2018|	Tone tag in section

Eligible

• 1156 – According to legend, Lalli slew Bishop Henry of Finland with an axe on the ice of Lake Köyliönjärvi in Köyliö.
• 1356 – Edward Balliol, whose father John was briefly King of Scotland, gave up his claim to the throne in exchange for an English pension.
• 1843 – Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná, became the de facto first prime minister of the Empire of Brazil.
• 1942 – The Holocaust: Reinhard Heydrich and other senior Nazi officials met at the Wannsee Conference near Berlin to discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question".
• 1968 – The Houston Cougars upset the UCLA Bruins in what became known as the "Game of the Century", ending the Bruins' 47-game winning streak, and establishing college basketball as a sports commodity on American television.
• 1969 – Bengali student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman was shot and killed by East Pakistani police, an event that led to the Bangladesh Liberation War.
• 1990 – The Soviet Red Army violently cracked down on Azeri pro-independence demonstrations in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR.
• 1992 – Air Inter Flight 148 crashed into the Vosges while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport, France, resulting in 87 deaths.
• 2009 – In Washington, D.C., Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first African American president of the United States.
• 2009 – During a national financial crisis, thousands of people protested (pictured) at the Icelandic parliament in Reykjavík.

• Born/died this day: | Li Jitao |d|924| Wulfstan |d|1095| Sebastian de Aparicio |b|1502| Jean-Jacques Barthélemy |b|1716| Carl Linnaeus the Younger |b|1741| David Wilmot |b|1814| Nathaniel Parker Willis |b|1806|d|1867 |John Soane |d|1837| Chandra Khonnokyoong |b|1909| Sarah Conlon |b|1926| Kirsty Gallacher |b|1976| Claudio Abbado |d|2014|

Notes

• Decian persecution appears on January 3, so Pope Fabian should not appear in the same year

January 20: Day of Nationwide Sorrow in Azerbaijan (1990); Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States (2025) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1265 – Simon de Montfort summoned local representatives to the Palace of Westminster to attend a parliament, now considered to be the forerunner of the House of Commons of England.
• 1945 – World War II: In an operation that took nearly two months to complete, Germany began the evacuation of at least 1.8 million people from East Prussia in anticipation of the advancing Soviet Red Army.
• 2018 – A group of Taliban gunmen attacked and took hostages at the Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle that left at least 21 people dead.