January 20 is the 20th day of the year
There are 346 days remaining until the end of the year 2016
In the ancient astronomy, it is the cusp day between Capricorn and Aquarius. In some years it is Aquarius, but others Capricorn. It depends on solar term Dahan (Major cold).
The traditional East Asian calendars divide a year into 24 solar terms (節氣). Dàhán (pīnyīn) or Daikan (rōmaji) (Chinese and Japanese: 大寒; Korean: 대한; Vietnamese: Đại hàn; literally: "major cold") is the 24th solar term. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 300° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 315°. It more often refers in particular to the day when the Sun is exactly at the celestial longitude of 300°. In the Gregorian calendar, it usually begins around 20 January and ends around 4 February.
the sun will rise at 7:22 am
the sun will set at 5:19 pm
Today we will have 9 hours and 59 minutes of sun.
the first low tide was at 1:42 am
and the next low tide will be at 3:03 pm.
The first high tide was at 8:08 am
and the next high tide at 10:05 pm.
The lunar phase is a Waxing Gibbous and is 86.1 % illuminated.
National Answer Your Cat’s Question Day
National Buttercrunch Day
National Disc Jockey Day
National Cheese Lover's Day
Armed Forces Day in Mali
Heroes' Day in Cape Verde
Martyrs' Day in Azerbaijan
Inauguration Day (United States)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! Happy Birthday also to:
1896 - Comedian George Burns was born Nathan Birnbaum in New York City.
1894 - Harold Gray, American "Orphan Annie" cartoonist
1920 – Federico Fellini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1920 – DeForest Kelley, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1923 – Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1925 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet, and politician
1926 – Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
1929 – Jimmy Cobb, American drummer
1929 – Arte Johnson, American actor, singer, and screenwriter
1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1946 – David Lynch, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1956 – Bill Maher, American comedian, actor, and television host
1959 – Tami Hoag, American author
1972 – Nikki Haley, American accountant and politician, 116th Governor of South Carolina
On this day in History…
1783 – The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence).
1841 – Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
1954 – In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
1958 -- Members of the team attempting the first surface crossing of the Antarctic have joined up at the South Pole.
1981 – Coincidentally, twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is 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.
2006 – Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913.
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.
2009 – A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.
2001Hundreds of thousands of protesting Filipinos forced President Joseph Estrada to step down; Vice President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was sworn in as the new president.