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| 1801 | John Marshall was appointed chief justice of the United States. |
| 1841 | Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain. |
| 1896 | Comedian George Burns was born Nathan Birnbaum in New York City. |
| 1936 | Britain's King George V died. |
| 1942 | Nazi officials arrived at a "final solution" that called for exterminating Europe's Jews, during a conference at Lake Wannsee in Berlin. |
| 1953 | Dwight D. Eisenhower took the oath of office as president of the United States; Richard M. Nixon was sworn in as vice president. |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States.
 | Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you ...." |
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| 1981 | Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the 40th president of the United States. |
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| 1981 | Iran released 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days. |
| 1986 | The United States observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 1987 | Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite disappeared in Beirut, Lebanon, while attempting to negotiate the release of Western hostages. |
| 1993 | Bill Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd president of the United States. |
| 2001 | George W. Bush took the oath of office as the 43rd president of the United States. |
| 2001 | Hundreds of thousands of protesting Filipinos forced President Joseph Estrada to step down; Vice President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was sworn in as the new president. |
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