Today in History 1265 - The first Parliament of England summoned other than by royal command (in this instance by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester) met in Westminster Hall 1502 - The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored. 1513 - Christian II succeeds Johan I as Danish/Norwegian king 1523 - Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway. 1778 - 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass 1785 - Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Island), no takers 1801 - John Marshall appointed US chief justice 1841 - China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War 1850 - Investigator, first ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England 1869 - Womens Rights Activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before US Congress 1887 - US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor 1892 - 1st basketball game played (Mass) 1914 - The first group of Transvaal Indian women satyagrahis are released from Pietermaritzburg Prison in South Africa after three months imprisonment 1920 - The American Civil Liberties Union is founded. 1921 - Republic of Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire 1930 - 1st radio broadcast of Lone Ranger (WXYZ-Detroit) 1936 - Edward VIII succeeds British king George V 1937 - 1st US Presidential Inauguration day held on Jan 20th, (previously March 4th) 1942 - Japanese invade Burma 1942 - Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin to organise the final solution, the extermination of Europes Jews 1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President 1949 - US President Harry Truman announces his four point program 48 state record) 1958 - A group attempting the 1st surface crossing of Antarctic join up at the South Pole 1965 - Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain 1969 - Richard M Nixon inaugurated as US president 1977 - George H W Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA 1979 - 1 million Iranians march in Tehran in a show of support for the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, fundamentalist Muslim leader 1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow 1981 - 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed 1981 - Ronald Reagan inaugurated as 40th US President 1986 - 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr 1987 - Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon 1989 - George H W Bush inaugurated as 41st US President & Dan Quayle becomes 44th Vice President 1991 - Sudans government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the countrys Muslim north and Christian south. 1993 - Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd US President 2002 - Photographs showing al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects shackled and masked are published by the United States military 2009 - Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States first African-American president
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