Video: 'Iran Hostage Crisis: Release of 52 Hostages in 1981 (ABC News Report From 1/20/1981)'

(Tuesday, January 20, 1981, 8:55 p.m. Iran Standard Time/12:25 p.m. EST) — The Iran hostage crisis, a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran in which 52 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days, ended today only 25 minutes after Jimmy Carter’s term as the 39th President of the United States had ended.
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Video: 'President Roosevelt's Inauguration On Sleeve As President Roosevelts (1941)'

(Monday, January 20, 1941, 12:11 p.m. EST) — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 58, was inaugurated today for an unprecedented third term of office on the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., with Chief Justice Charles Hughes administering the oath of office.
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Video: 'CNN - INAUGURATION 2001 - 8:08 A.M E.T - 2:31 P.M E.T'

(Saturday, January 20, 2001, 12:01 p.m. EST) — Seeking to unify the nation after one of the most disputed elections in its history, former Texas Governor George W. Bush, 54, was inaugurated today as the 43rd President of the United States at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., with Chief Justice William Rehnquist administering the oath of office.
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Video: 'NBC NEWS INAUGURATION 1981 - 10:00 A.M E.T - 2:59 P.M E.T'

(Tuesday, January 20, 1981, 11:57 a.m. EST) — Promising “an era of national renewal,” former California Governor Ronald Reagan, 68, was inaugurated today as the 40th President of the United States on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., with Chief Justice Warren E. Burger administering the oath of office.
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Video: 'Georgia in the Civil War'

(Saturday, January 19, 1861; ten weeks after the 1860 United States presidential election) — 74 days after Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the presidential election of 1860 on a platform which opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories, Georgia became the fifth state to secede today when delegates to the Georgia Secession Convention of 1861 meeting at the Milledgeville statehouse voted 208-89 to leave the Union.
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Video: 'Bill Clinton's Farewell Address 2001'

(Thursday, January 18, 2001, 8:00 p.m. EST) — Two days before his term of office expired, U.S. President Bill Clinton said goodbye to the nation tonight, using his final televised address to look back at his administration’s accomplishments and warn the incoming president against retrenching from the world or squandering the country’s economic prosperity. Continue reading President Clinton touts gains as he bid farewell 20 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 18 2001) →

Video: 'Eisenhower Farewell Address (Best Quality) - 'Military Industrial Complex' WARNING'

(Tuesday, January 27, 1961, 8:30 p.m. EST) — U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower cautioned the nation in a farewell address from the White House tonight to be vigilant against dangers to its liberties implicit in a vast military establishment and a permanent armaments industry unparalleled in peacetime.
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