On this day: January 20

National days on this date

• 20 January Martyrs' DayNational day of mourning for those killed when Soviet troops entered Baku in 1990.

Events

1. 1918 Battle of Imbros 1918 World War I naval battle
2. 1990 Black January 1990 massacre in Baku

Births

1. 1875 Mahmud Khoja Behbudiy Uzbek writer
2. 1890 Boris Kozo-Polyansky Russian (Soviet) botanist (1890-1957)
3. 1937 Mintimer Şäymief President of Tatarstan from 1991 to 2010
4. 1952 Khurshid Davron Soviet writer and poet
5. 1957 Alu Alkhanov Russian politician
6. 1960 Abdusalom Azizov Uzbek military officer
7. 1968 Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev Kyrgyz politician
8. 1989 Kirill Pozdnyakov Russian cyclist

Deaths

1. 1639 Mustafa I 15th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1617–1618, 1622–1623)
2. 2006 Andrei Iordan Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (1934-2006)