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January 20
What happened on this day
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Obama inaugurated
17 years ago
Barack Obama is sworn in as the first Black president of the United States in 2009, before a record crowd on the National Mall.
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First basketball game
134 years ago
Dr. James Naismith's students play the first official game of basketball at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1892.
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Amílcar Cabral assassinated
53 years ago
The agronomist who led the independence war in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde is shot in Conakry in 1973, months before Guinea-Bissau declared itself free.
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