1265: First English Parliament summoned other than by royal command (in this instance by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester) mets in Westminster Hall
1841: China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War
1921: Republic of Turkey declared out of remnants of Ottoman Empire
1942: Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee Conference in Berlin to organize the “final solution”, the extermination of Europe’s Jews
1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President
1981: Ronald Reagan inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America
2009: Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States’ first African-American president
Πηγή: Onthisday.com
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