History for January 20 - On-This-Day.com
Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763, Lead Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter) 1889, George Burns 1896
DeForest Kelley 1920, Federico Fellini 1920, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin 1930
1942 - Nazi officials held the Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their "final solution" that called for exterminating Europe's Jews.
1981 - Iran released 52 Americans that had been held hostage for 444 days. The hostages were flown to Algeria and then to a U.S. base in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The release occurred minutes after the U.S. presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.
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