HISTORY TODAY

 1929 – The first full-length talking motion picture filmed out- doors, In Old Arizona, is released.

 1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 39 relating to India and Pakistan is adopted.

 1972 – Pakistan launched its nuclear weapons program, a few weeks after its defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, as well as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

 1990 – Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.

 1991 – Sudan’s government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country’s Muslim north and Christian south.

 1993 – Bill Clinton is inaugurated the 42nd President of the United States of America.

 2001 – George W. Bush is inaugurated the 43rd President of the United States of America.

 2009 – Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becoming the first African- American President of the United States.

 2017 – Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America, becoming the oldest person to assume the office.

 2018 – A group of 4 or 5 gunmen attack The Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle. The attack kills 40 people and injures many others.