- 1801 – John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 1869 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes the first woman to testify before Congress.
- 1870 – Sisters Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Clafin open the first woman-owned brokerage firm in the United States.
- 1872 – Julia Morgan is born. She becomes the first licensed female architect in California and the innovative architect of Hearst Castle and over 700 other buildings
- 1896 – Actor and comedian George Burns is born.
- 1910 – Joy Adamson is born. As a conservationist, she lived and worked in Kenya and wrote the book “Born Free” after raising a lion cub to be released into the wild.
- 1930 – Edwin Buzz Aldrin is born.
- 1942 – Nazi officials hold Wannsee Conference in Berlin to organize the “final solution” to Europe’s Jewish population.
- 1943 – Lead, South Dakota, temperature is 52°F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood records -16°F
- 1945 – FDR inaugurated for his 4th term.
- 1949 – The nation’s first televised inaugural parade for Harry Truman is watched by 10 million people.
- 1953 – First live coast-to-coast inaugural address by Eisenhower.
- 1981 – Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th president of the United States.
- 1981 – Within minutes of the inauguration, 52 U.S. captives are released, ending the 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis.
- 1993 – Audrey Hepburn dies at age 63.
- 1998 – Researchers announce the successful cloning of calves.
- 2009 – Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States.
- 2017 – Donald Trump sworn in as the 45th president.
