January 20 in History

• January 20 is the 20th day of the year. There are 346 days remaining until the end of the year.
• 1265 – In Westminster, the first English Parliament conducted its first meeting.
• 1783 – Great Britain signed a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War.
• 1885 – L. A. Thompson patented the roller coaster.
• 1887 – The US Senate allowed the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
• 1892 – At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game was played.
• 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union was founded.
• 1929 – In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, was released.
• 1934 – Fujifilm was founded in Tokyo, Japan.
• 1942 – At the Wannsee Conference, senior Nazi officials discussed the implementation of the “final solution” to the “Jewish Question.”
• 1986 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
• 1999 – The China News Service announced new government restrictions on Internet use, use, aimed especially at Internet cafes.