TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Jan. 20, 1942

Nazi officials held the notorious Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their “final solution” that called for exterminating Europe’s Jews.

ON THIS DATE 1937

President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first chief executive to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 instead of March 4.

1964

Capitol Records released the album “Meet the Beatles!”

2009

Barack Obama was sworn in as the nation’s 44th, as well as first African American, president.