January 20
People born on this day are Aquarius.
- 1973
Amílcar Cabral, leader of the independence movement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, is assassinated in Conakry, Guinea.
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China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam.
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Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
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In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
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Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Lesotho, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Justin Lekhanya.
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Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
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Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France, killing 87 of the 96 people on board.
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President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent four-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
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A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.
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A group of four or five gunmen attack The Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle. The attack kills 40 people and injures many others.
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Syrian civil war: The Government of Turkey announces the initiation of the Afrin offensive and begins shelling Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positions in Afrin Region.
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2003J. J. McCarthy, American football player
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2003Antonia Ružić, Croatian tennis player
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2002Arnaud Kalimuendo, French footballer
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2000Tyler Herro, American basketball player
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1995Joey Badass, American rapper and actor
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1995Calum Chambers, English footballer
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1995José María Giménez, Uruguayan footballer
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1995Sergi Samper, Spanish footballer
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1995Kim So-hee, South Korean singer
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1994Hampus Lindholm, Swedish ice hockey player
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1994Lucas Piazon, Brazilian footballer
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1993Lorenzo Crisetig, Italian footballer
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