WHAT HAPPENED ON 20. JANUARY
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A German officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers. (20. January 1941)

World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". (20. January 1942)

World War II: Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies. (20. January 1945)

World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months. (20. January 1945)

Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President. (20. January 1949)

The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations. (20. January 1954)

The first flight of the Vickers Vanguard. (20. January 1959)

Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic. (20. January 1960)

East Pakistani police kill student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman. The resulting outrage is in part responsible for the Bangladesh Liberation War. (20. January 1969)

Pakistan launched its Nuclear weapons program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. (20. January 1972)

Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U.S. President, Iran releases 52 American hostages. (20. January 1981)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time. (20. January 1986)

Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon. (20. January 1987)

On Black Saturday, the Red Army kills Azerbaijani civilians in Baku. (20. January 1990)

Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south. (20. January 1991)

Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France killing 87 of the 96 people on board. A design flaw in the computer mode selection system resulted in the crew selecting the wrong rate of descent. (20. January 1992)

The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use, aimed especially at Internet cafés. (20. January 1999)

Philippine president Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. (20. January 2001)

Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913. (20. January 2006)

A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance. (20. January 2007)