Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States of America. He is currently the oldest person ever inaugurated.
Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America. At the time of his inauguration, he became the oldest person ever inaugurated. Kamala Harris became the first female and first non-white Vice President of the United Stat...
A group of four or five gunmen attack The Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle. The attack kills 40 people and injures many others.
Syrian civil war: The Government of Turkey announces the initiation of the Afrin offensive and begins shelling Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positions in Afrin Region.
Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America.
Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becoming the first African-American President of the United States.
A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.
President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent four-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France, killing 87 of the 96 people on board.
Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Lesotho, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Justin Lekhanya.
Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam.
Amílcar Cabral, leader of the independence movement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, is assassinated in Conakry, Guinea.
Pakistan launches its nuclear weapons program, a few weeks after its defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, as well as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the youngest man to be elected into that office, and the first Roman Catholic.
In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America, becoming the first president to begin his presidency on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.