Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 20, 2021

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 * 1156 – According to legend, Lalli slew Bishop Henry of Finland with an axe on the ice of Lake Köyliönjärvi in Köyliö.
 * 1843 – Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná, became the de facto first prime minister of the Empire of Brazil.
 * 1942 – The Holocaust: Reinhard Heydrich and other senior Nazi officials met at the Wannsee Conference near Berlin to discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question".
 * 1945 – World War II: Germany began the evacuation of at least 1.8 million people from East Prussia in anticipation of the advancing Soviet Red Army, an operation that took nearly two months to complete.
 * 1968 – The Houston Cougars upset the UCLA Bruins in what became known as the "Game of the Century", ending the Bruins' 47-game winning streak, and establishing college basketball as a sports commodity on American television.
 * 1990 – The Soviet Red Army violently cracked down on Azeri pro-independence demonstrations in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR.
 * 1992 – Air Inter Flight 148 crashed into the Vosges Mountains while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport near Strasbourg, France, resulting in 87 deaths.
 * 2009 – In Washington, D.C., more than one million people attended the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States.
 * 2018 – A group of Taliban gunmen attacked the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle that left at least 21 people dead.
 * Born/died this day: | Sebastian Münster |b|1488| Sebastian de Aparicio |b|1502| Myles Coverdale |d|1569| David Wilmot |b|1814| John Soane |d|1837| Agnes Mary Clerke |d|1907| Sarah Conlon |b|1926| Claudio Abbado |d|2014