01-20-2006, 06:30 AM
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January 20th
1892 ~ The first official basketball game was played, at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1907 ~ Death of Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian Chemist and inventor of the Periodic table.
1930 ~ Birthday of Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut.
1937 ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in for a second term as U.S. President. This was the first inauguration scheduled on January 20, following adoption of the 20th Amendment. Previous inaugurations were scheduled on March 4.
1942 ~ Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decided the "final solution to the Jewish problem".
1961 ~ John F. Kennedy sworn in as U.S. President.
1967 ~ The first pulsar is discovered, followed shortly by the one in the Crab Nebula.
1984 ~ Death of Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic swimming gold medalist & Actor (Tarzan).
1991 ~ Sudan's government imposed Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
1993 ~ Death of Audrey Hepburn, actress.
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