^B{^#!16!20 January^N! Feast day of St Sebastian, St Fabian, pope, St Euthymius the Great, and St Fechin.
^B{1265^B} The first English parliament met in Westminster Hall, convened by the Earl of Leicester, Simon de Montfort. ^B{1841^B} Hong Kong was ceded by China and occupied by the British. ^B{1886^B} The Mersey Railway Tunnel was officially opened by the Prince of Wales. ^B{1892^B} The game of basketball was first played at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts. ^B{1944 ^B}The RAF dropped 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin. ^B{1961^B} John F Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th US president, and the first Roman Catholic to hold this office. ^B{1981^B} Fifty-two Americans, held hostage in the US embassy in Teheran for 444 days by followers of Ayatollah Khomeini, were released. ^B{1987 ^B}Terry Waite, the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy in the Middle East, disappeared on a peace mission in Beirut, Lebanon.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist, ^B{1763^B}; George Burns, US comedian and actor, ^B{1896^B}; Federico Fellini, Italian film director, ^B{1920^B}; Patricia Neal, US film actress, ^B{1926^B}; Edwin Aldrin, US astronaut, ^B{1930^B}; Malcolm McLaren, British rock impresario, ^B{1946^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}John Soane, English architect, ^B{1837^B}; John Ruskin, English art critic and writer, ^B{1900^B}; King George V, ^B{1936^B}; Johnny Weissmuller, US film actor and swimmer, ^B{1984^B}; Barbara Stanwyck, US film actress, ^B{1990^B}; Audrey Hepburn, British film actress, ^B{1993^B}.
