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Top Nazis met at Grossen-Wannsee, outside Berlin, and there formulated the infamous "Final Solution" to the Jewish question. Chaired by SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the one-day conference was designed to address the Nazi efforts at removing the Jews. The 15 top-ranking men of the German Reich agreed upon a blueprint for the extermination of Europe’s Jews. Their "final solution" called for exterminating Europe's Jews. Until this time, the plan had been to deport all Jews to the island of Madagascar off Africa, but by 1942 this plan was rejected in favor of transporting Jews to the east where the able-bodied would become slave laborers for the Reich. SS chief Heinrich Himmler would be in charge. Those unfit to work would be, the conference minutes noted, "appropriately dealt with." This phrase was left unexplained, but there was no doubt of its sinister meaning. After approving genocide as Nazi policy, the conference attendees adjourned for lunch. The minutes were taken by Adolf Eichmann. In 2004 Christopher R. Browning authored "The Origins of the Final Solution."
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US Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated for his 3rd term. It was the first time any US president had been elected for more than two terms.
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Hitler met with Mussolini and offered aid in Albania and Greece.
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Hitler proclaimed to German parliament his intention to exterminate all European Jews.
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President Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated for a 2nd term. He became the first chief executive to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 instead of March 4.
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Britain's King George V, served from 1910-1936, died at age 70; he was succeeded by Edward VIII. He is remembered for saying: “Any man who is not a socialist before he is 30 has no heart, and any man who is a socialist after he is 30 has no head.”
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Belgium arrested some Nazi agitators who were urging for a return to the Reich.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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225 –
Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
1991 –
Jolyon Palmer, English racing driver; son of Jonathan Palmer
1986 –
Derek Fathauer, American professional golfer
1984 –
Olivia Hallinan, English actress
1984 –
Toni Gonzaga, Filipina actress and singer
1983 –
Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player
1983 –
Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1983 –
Paula Taylor, English-Thai actress, model and presenter
1982 –
Fredrik Strømstad, Norwegian footballer
1982 –
Joe Swash, English actor
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January, 20
- Births
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2009,
Stéphanos II Ghattas, Patriarch Emeritus of Alexandria for the Coptic Catholic Church
2009,
Stan Hagen, Canadian politician (b. 1940)
2009,
David Newman, American jazz musician, nicknamed "Fathead" (b. 1933)
2009,
Sheila O'Nions Walsh (aka Sheila Walsh, Sophie Leyton), English romance writer (b. 1928)
2006,
Dave Lepard, Swedish rock singer and guitarist (b. 1980)
2005,
Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
2005,
Roland Frye, American literary critic and theologian (b. 1921)
2005,
Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, Polish journalist, writer, and politician (b. 1913)
2005,
Miriam Louisa Rothschild, British zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908)
2004,
Guinn Smith, American athlete (b. 1920)
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January, 20
- Deaths
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