civil rights dates.
That was the date of the speech where the quote was from.
Inauguration day
01/20/2020 - MLK Day - and in Civil rights
01/20/20 - Prohibition 01/20/42 - Nazi officials meet to organize the extermination of Jews
01/20/1958 - South Pole Sir Edmund Hillary
1/20/69 - The killing of a student activist sets the stage for the Bangladesh Liberation War
01/20/81 - The Iran hostage crisis ends
01/20/1999 - China Internet Usage The Chinese News Service announces restrictions including control of news and information on Internet
1/20/2002 - Human Rights Violations 01/20/2010 - Aftershock hits Haiti
01/20/2007 - Australia Severe Drought and Snake Invasion etc., etc. PLUS READ:
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Inauguration Day Jan 20, 1961
"The Gift Outright"
Poem recited at John F. Kennedy's Inauguration by Robert Frost
The land was ours before we were the land’s She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England’s, still colonials, Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
Something we were withholding made us weak Until we found out that it was ourselves We were withholding from our land of living, And forthwith found salvation in surrender.
Such as we were we gave ourselves outright (The deed of gift was many deeds of war)
To the land vaguely realizing westward, But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, Such as she was, such as she will become.