History Quiz / On this Day... 01/20

During the First Opium War, China cedes the island of Hong Kong to the British with the signing of the Chuenpi Convention, an agreement seeking an end to the first Anglo-Chinese conflict.

Union General Ambrose Burnside’s Army of the Potomac begins an offensive against General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia that quickly bogs down as several days of heavy rain turn the roads of Virginia into a muddy quagmire.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the second time as president, beginning the second of four terms in the office.

Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the “Final Solution” of the “Jewish question.”

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only president to be elected to three terms in office, is inaugurated to his fourth—and final—term.

On the newly renovated east front of the United States Capitol, John Fitzgerald Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States.

Richard Nixon is inaugurated as president of the United States and says, “After a period of confrontation [in Vietnam], we are entering an era of negotiation.”

Marvin Gaye's hit single 'What's Going On?' released

Country star Jerry Lee Lewis rocks the Grand Ole Opry

Rae Carruth, the pro football player convicted of hiring someone to kill his pregnant girlfriend, was born

President Carter calls for Olympics to be moved from Moscow

Ronald Reagan, former Western movie actor and host of television’s popular “Death Valley Days” is sworn in as the 40th president of the United States.

Actress Audrey Hepburn dies

Yasser Arafat is elected president of the Palestinian National Council with 88.1 percent of the popular vote, becoming the first democratically elected leader of the Palestinian people in history.

On a freezing day in Washington, D.C., Barack Hussein Obama is sworn in as the 44th U.S. president.

In the culmination of his extraordinary rise to power over a tumultuous election year, Donald John Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States in Washington, D.C.

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