Also on This Day, January 20 AMERICAN REVOLUTION Battle of Millstone, New Jersey, 1777 AUTOMOTIVE GM takes an interest in Oakland Motor Car Corp., 1909 CIVIL WAR Union General Burnsides troops get bogged down in mud, 1863 COLD WAR Truman announces Point Four program, 1949 CRIME Football player-turned-murderer born, 1974 DISASTER Bullfight spectators die when bleachers collapse, 1980 GENERAL INTEREST Hong Kong ceded to the British, 1841 FDR inaugurated to fourth term, 1945 John F. Kennedy inaugurated, 1961 Terry Waite disappears, 1987 Arafat elected leader of Palestine, 1996 HOLLYWOOD Actress Audrey Hepburn dies, 1993 LITERARY Robert Frost reads at JFKs inauguration, 1961 MUSIC Country star Jerry Lee Lewis rocks the Grand Ole Opry, 1973 OLD WEST Ronald Reagan becomes president, 1981 PRESIDENTIAL Franklin Delano Roosevelt is sworn in as president, 1937 SPORTS President Carter calls for Olympics to be moved from Moscow, 1980 VIETNAM WAR Richard Nixon takes office, 1969 New communist offensive anticipated, 1972 WORLD WAR I Goeben and Breslau battle the Allies in the Aegean, 1918 WORLD WAR II The Wannsee Conference, 1942
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