Sunday, January 20, 2019.

• 1949 - J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen
• 1949 - Pres Truman announces his point 4 program
• 1950 - "Dance Me a Song" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 35 performances
• 1950 - Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands
• 1952 - British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone
• 1952 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
• 1953 - 1st US telecast transmitted to Canada-from Buffalo NY
• 1953 - 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower)
• 1954 - -70øF (-57øC), Rogers Pass, Montana (US 48 state record)
• 1954 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' "Concertino opus 94," premieres
• 1955 - 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn
• 1956 - Buddy Holly records "Blue Days Black Night" in Nashville
• 1957 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
• 1957 - Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election
• 1957 - Morton Gould's "Declaration," premieres in Washington, DC
• 1958 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
• 1958 - KUED TV channel 7 in Salt Lake City, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1959 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' Moscow-Tsjerjomoesjki, premieres in Moscow
• 1960 - Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo
• 1961 - Arthur M Ramsay becomes archbishop of Canterbury
• 1961 - Francis Poulenc's "Gloria," premieres in Boston
• 1961 - Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration
• 1961 - Yugoslav ex-vice-president Milovan Djilas flees
• 1962 - "Kean" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 performances
• 1964 - "Meet The Beatles" album released in US
• 1965 - Beatles appear on Shindig (ABC-TV)
• 1965 - Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man"
• 1965 - JPL proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars & return
• 1965 - Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain
• 1968 - Houston ends UCLA's 47-game basketball winning streak, 71-69
• 1968 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
• 1968 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
• 1969 - Richard M Nixon inaugurated as president
• 1969 - U of Az reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula)
• 1970 - 20th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 142-135 at Philadelphia
• 1970 - 23rd NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 4-1 at St Louis
• 1970 - Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano
• 1971 - Ard Schenk skates world record 1000m (1:18.8)
• 1971 - John Lennon meets Yoko Ono's parents in Japan