January 20
Birthdays:
Sophie, Countess of Wessex {Great Britain} 1965
Crown Princess Mathilde of Belgium, Duchess of Brabant {Belgium} 1973
Carlos Klynstra {Netherlands & Bourbon-Parma} 1997
Prince Tassilo Preslavski of Bulgaria {Bulgaria} 2002
Wedding Anniversaries:
King Simeon II of Bulgaria & Dona Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela 1962 [civil]
Deaths:
King George V of the United Kingdom, Emperor of India 1936
Today is also...
- The beginning of the zodiac sign Aquarius
- Tu B'shvat in the Jewish faith
- Saint Agnes Eve in Catholicism
- The anniversary of presidential inaugurations since 1937, when FDR was sworn in for his 2nd term (his last inauguration was 1945). Other notable inaugurations have included JFK (1961), Reagan (1981), and most recently Obama (2009).
- The day in 1986 when Martin Luther King, Jr. day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time
Some events of longo ago that also happened on Januray 20th:
1320 Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes King of Poland
1356 Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scotland
1523 Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark & Norway
1649 Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other "high crimes"
1936 Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom
BIRTHS
225 Gordian III, Roman Emperor
1292 Elisabeth of Bohemia
1358 Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile
1554 King Sebastian of Portugal
1716 King Charles III of Spain
DEATHS
250 Pope Fabian
1191 Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia
1479 King John II of Aragon
1612 Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
1666 Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France
1819 King Charles IV of Spain
1848 Christian VIII of Denmark
1891 David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii
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