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Tuesday, 20 January 2026
1988 Mike Tyson threatens a TV reporter in NJ. 
1988 Christine Norden, actress (Little Shop of Horroers, Night Beat), dies
1989 Hurricane Hugo bashes Charleston, SC, with winds of up to 135 miles per hour, causing an estimated $8 billion in damage.
1989 Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki
1989 F Fischer, German war criminal (4, Two of Breda), dies.
1991 Armenia votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union
1991 Angelo "Little Moe" Rossitto, dwarf actor (Carousel), dies at 83.
1992 Billy Williams, actor (Adv of Kit Carson), dies at 76 of brain tumor
1993 The inaugural ever meeting between the Pope and the Israeli Chief Rabii takes place.
1993 Fernand Ledoux, Belgian/French actor (L'Homme de Londres), dies at 96
1994 Arthur Krim, US director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies
1995 Irven Spence, animator, dies at 86
1996 John F. Kennedy, Jr. marries Carolyn Bessette on Cumberland Island, GA.
1996 John Stachniewski, scholar/teacher, dies at 42.
1997 A volcanic avalanche buries Montserrat's airport and flows into the Atlantic Ocean 5.5km away.
1997 Tommy Cecil, ferryman, dies at 51
1999 A powerful earthquake shakes Taiwan, killing nearly 2500 people.
2005 Popular P2P client WinMX is confirmed to be offline.
2007 The Supreme Court of Chile rules that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori must be extradited to Peru so Fujimori can face charges of corruption and human rights abuse.
2012 In this year, Japanese Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda, claims a leadership ballot.
2013 6 people are killed in military and insurgent conflict in Zamboanga City, Philippines.
2017 Discovery of the inaugural brainless animal that sleeps, the jellyfish Cassiopea, research published in "Current Biology" by Caltech scientists.
2017 Andre Ward, unified light heavyweight champion and world’s top pound-for-pound boxer, announces his retirement
2018 Fossil of Dickinsonia, “the Holy Grail of palaeontology†proven to be oldest known animal fossil, 558 million years old from White Sea, Russia.
2019 U.S. President Donald Trump approves deployment of several hundred troops and military equipment to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates following the September 14 attack on Saudi oil refineries. Both Saudi Arabia and Iran vow to defend themselves.
2020 WHO Director Tedros Ghebreyesus says countries representing 2/3 of the world's population have joined its COVAX vaccine-distribution initiative to deliver 2 billion doses by end 2021
2020 Microsoft agrees to buy video game holding company ZeniMax Media, including Bethesda Softworks and their following subsidiaries for US$7.5 billion, in what is the biggest and most expensive takeover in the history of the video game industry.
2023 Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch at 92 announces he is retiring from the boards of Fox and News Corporation, leaving his son Lachlan in charge [1].
2023 King Charles III is recorded as becoming the inaugural British monarch to make a speech from France’s senate chamber on a three day trip to the country [1]
2023 Rupert Murdoch announces his retirement and passes his businesses on to his son Lachlan. Murdoch led News Corp and Fox, and formerly Sky Group
2024 Farm Aid held in Saratoga Springs, New York; performers include Willie Nelson , John Mellencamp , Neil Young , Dave Matthews , Margo Price, Mavis Staples, Joy Oladokun, and Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats [1]
2024 Sri Lankan presidential election: Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected President of Sri Lanka, with a second round of vote counting held for the inaugural time in Sri Lanka's history
2024 Hurricane Helene made landfall in the United States on September 26
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