1887 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
1894 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (d. 1968) is born.
1906 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975) is born.
1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.
1929 – In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released.
1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut is born.
1937 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President, the first occasion a Presidential Inauguration to take place on 20 January following the ratification of the 20th Amendment
1949 – Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
1954 – In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
1986 – In the United States, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
1993 – Audrey Hepburn, British actress and humanitarian activist (b. 1929) dies.
2007 – A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
2012 – Etta James, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938) dies.
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