Thursday 20 January 2011

On this Day - 20th January


1896 - George Burns born
1920 - DeForest Kelley and Federico Fellini born
1926 - Patricia Neal born
1930 - Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin born
1934 - Arte Johnson born
1937 - Dorothy Provine born
1946 - David Lynch born
1952 - Paul Stanley born
1956 - Bill Maher born
1958 - Members of the team attempting the first surface crossing of the Antarctic have joined up at the South Pole.
1961 - The Democrat John F Kennedy is sworn in as the youngest ever elected president of the United States.
1971 - Gary Barlow born
1972 - The number of people out of work and claiming benefit rises above one million, causing uproar in the House of Commons
1979 - Rob Bourdon born
1987 - Police carry out a series of dawn raids and make 26 arrests in their biggest operation so far against violence in and around football stadiums
2002 - Photographs showing al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects shackled and masked at Camp X-Ray are published by the United States military

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