On this day :

1981 Iran Hostage Crisis ends, 1777 Battle of Millstone New Jersey, 1909 GM takes an interest in Oakland Motor Car Corp, 1863 Mud March begins, 1949 Truman announces Point Four program, 1974 Football playerturnedmurderer born, 1980 Bullfight spectators die when bleachers collapse, 1841 Hong Kong ceded to the British, 1945 FDR inaugurated to fourth term, 1961 John F Kennedy inaugurated, 1987 Terry Waite disappears, 1996 Arafat elected leader of Palestine, 1993 Actress Audrey Hepburn dies, 1961 Robert Frost reads at JFKs inauguration, 1973 Country star Jerry Lee Lewis rocks the Grand Ole Opry, 1981 Ronald Reagan becomes president, 1937 Franklin Delano Roosevelt is sworn in as president, 1980 President Carter calls for Olympics to be moved from Moscow, 1969 Richard Nixon takes office, 1972 New communist offensive anticipated, 1918 Goeben and Breslau battle the Allies in the Aegean, 1942 The Wannsee Conference,