20th January

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1265 – In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting held by Simon de Montfort in the Palace of Westminster, now also known colloquially as the "Houses of Parliament".
1568 - The death of Miles Coverdale, aged 80, translator and publisher of the first complete Bible to be printed in English (1535).
1649 - Charles I went on trial for treason and other 'high crimes'.
1882 - A draper’s shop called Coxon & Company, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, became the first shop in the world to be lit by incandescent electric light. It used Swan lamps.
1936 – Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom.
1981 – Ronald Reagan is inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U.S. President.
1986 - Mrs. Pauline Williams of Luton won her three year fight to prosecute the man who injected her drug addict son with a fatal painkiller. She was the first person to bring a private prosecution for manslaughter to a Crown Court trial.
1987 – Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon.
1997 - Her Majesty's Royal Yacht Britannia began her final voyage, to Hong Kong, before being decommissioned. She is now based in Edinburgh, as a visitor attraction.
1997 - Three sisters, Phoebe, Faith and Alice Julian were among 17 girls who were the first to be admitted to the choir of York Minster, ending a 400 year old tradition of men only.
2006 – Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913.
2007 – A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.

Births
1878 – Finlay Currie, Scottish actor (d. 1968)
1910 – Joy Adamson, Austrian author (d. 1980)
1922 – Graham Stark, English actor and director
1926 – Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American pilot and astronaut
1934 – Tom Baker, English actor
1950 – Liza Goddard, English actress
1971 – Gary Barlow, English singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Take That)
1982 – Joe Swash, English actor

Deaths
1984 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
1993 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-English actress (b. 1929)
1994 – Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1909)
2003 – Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (b. 1947)

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