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The following events took place on January 20. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 41 events. Showing 31 - 41.

• 1981

  Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
• 1986

  In the United States, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
• 1987

  Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon.
• 1990

  The Red Army crackdown on civil protests in Baku, Azerbaijan during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Also known as Black January.
• 1991

  Sudan’s government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country’s Muslim north and Christian south.
• 1992

  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.
• 1999

  The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use, aimed especially at Internet cafés.
• 2001

  President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
• 2006

  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.
• 2007

  A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1093 mi trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
• 2009

  A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.

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