Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 20

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 * 1265 – Simon de Montfort summoned local representatives to the Palace of Westminster to attend a parliament, considered the forerunner of the House of Commons of England.
 * 1356 – Edward Balliol, whose father John was briefly King of Scotland, gave up his claim to the throne in exchange for an English pension.
 * 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.
 * 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 while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport, France, resulting in 87 deaths.
 * 2009 – In Washington, D.C., Barack Obama was inaugurated (pictured) 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: | Wulfstan |d|1095| Sebastian Münster |b|1488| Sebastian de Aparicio |b|1502| Jean-Jacques Barthélemy |b|1716| Carl Linnaeus the Younger |b|1741| Nathaniel Parker Willis |b|1806|d|1867 |John Soane |d|1837| Agnes Mary Clerke |d|1907| Sarah Conlon |b|1926| Kirsty Gallacher |b|1976| Naomi Parker Fraley |d|2018