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1930 - First radio broadcast of The Lone Ranger (WXYZ-Detroit).

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1937 - -45 degrees F (-43 degrees C), Boca, California (state record low).

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1937 - First Presidential Inauguration day on January 20th, (held every fourth years thereafter).

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1943 - Temperature in Lead, South Dakota is 52 degrees F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood, South Dakota records -16 degrees F.

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1945 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented fourth term as US President.

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1947 - Brigadier General Edwin K Wright becomes deputy director of US Central Intelligence Agency.

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1949 - US President Harry Truman announces his four-point program.

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1953 - First US telecast transmitted to Canada from Buffalo, New York, USA.

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1953 - First live coast-to-coast inauguration address (US President Dwight Eisenhower).

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1954 - -70 degrees F (-57 degrees C), Rogers Pass, Montana (state 48 record).

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