Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 20
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January 20: Tu Bishvat (Judaism, 2011)
- 1156 – According to legend, freeholder Lalli slew Bishop Henry of Finland with an axe on the ice of the lake Köyliönjärvi in Köyliö, Finland.
- 1843 – Honório Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná (pictured) became the de facto first prime minister of the Empire of Brazil.
- 1946 – Favouring stronger executive power than the draft constitution for the French Fourth Republic provided, Charles de Gaulle resigned as President of the Provisional Government.
- 1969 – Bengali student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman was shot and killed by East Pakistani police, one of the casus belli that led to the Bangladesh Liberation War.
- 2009 – In Washington, D.C., over 1 million people attended the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African American President of the United States.