January 19
\January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 346 days remaining (347 in leap years) Events 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England which makes Normandy a part of England. 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund 1764 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. 1806 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope. 1829 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres. 1839 - British East India Company captures Aden. 1840 - Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States. 1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome. 1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service (Roselle, New Jersey) It was built by Thomas Edison. 1893 - Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin. 1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. 1915 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. 1915 - German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. 1918 - Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the Red Guards and the White Guard. 1920 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations. 1935 - Coopers Inc sold the world's first briefs. 1937 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds. 1941 - World War II: British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea. 1942 - World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma. 1946 - General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. 1949 - Cuba recognises Israel. 1953 - 68% of all United States television sets were tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. 1955 - The Scrabble board game debuts. 1966 - Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India. 1969 - Student Jan Palach died after setting himself on fire 3 days ago in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest. 1971 - Revival of No, No, Nanette premieres (46th Street Theatre, New York City). 1974 - The UCLA men's basketball team sees its 88-game winning streak end at the hands of Notre Dame. 1975 - Double Jay began broadcasting in Sydney, Australia. 1977 - President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka Tokyo Rose). 1977 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that this occurs. 1981 - United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. 1983 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal, is arrested in Bolivia. 1983 - The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Computer, Inc to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced. 1993 - IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992 which is the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history. 1997 - Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli controlled West Bank city. 2002 - Michael Jordan, formerly of the Washington Wizards, plays his first game in Chicago since rejoining the NBA. 2038 - 2^31 - 1 seconds will have passed since Unix epoch and current computers will read 20:45:52 UTC, December 13, 1901.
Births 399 - Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453) 1544 - King Francis II of France (d. 1560) 1736 - James Watt, builder of steam engines (d. 1819) 1739 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (d. 1808) 1807 - Robert E. Lee, Confederate general (d. 1870) 1808 - Lysander Spooner, individualist anarchist (d. 1887) 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, poet, short story author (d. 1849) 1813 - Sir Henry Bessemer, inventor (d. 1898) 1839 - Paul Cézanne, painter (d. 1906) 1848 - John F. Stairs, businessman, statesman (d. 1904) 1851 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922) 1887 - Alexander Woollcott, intellectual (d. 1943) 1907 - Lilian Harvey, actress (d. 1968)1908 - Ish Kabibble, American musician, comedian (d. 1994) 1909 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)1913 - Minnesota Fats, American billiards player (d. 1996)1917 - John Raitt, American singer, actor1919 - Anthony Giacalone, gangster (d. 2001) 1920 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, United Nations Secretary General 1921 - Patricia Highsmith, author (d. 1995)1922 - Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996) 1923 - Jean Stapleton, actress1923 - Markus Wolf, German spy1924 - Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)1924 - Jean-Francois Revel, French author 1926 - Fritz Weaver, actor1927 - Nancy Dickerson, journalist (d. 1997) 1931 - Tippi Hedren, actress 1931 - Robert MacNeil, journalist 1932 - Richard Lester, British director 1939 - Phil Everly, musician 1941 - Colin Gunton, theologian 1942 - Michael Crawford, singer, actor 1943 - Janis Joplin, singer (d. 1970) 1943 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands1944 - Shelley Fabares, American actress1944 - Dan Reeves, American football coach1944 - Peter Lynch, American investor 1945 - Maria Jespen, theologian 1946 - Dolly Parton, singer, actress 1946 - Julian Barnes, author1946 - Susan Vreeland, author 1949 - Robert Palmer, singer, guitarist (d. 2003) 1949 - Dennis Taylor, North Irish snooker player1952 - David Patrick Kelly, American actor 1953 - Desi Arnaz Jr, actor1954 - Katey Sagal, American actress 1955 - Simon Rattle, English conductor1955 - Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American actor, comedian 1957 - Katey Sagal, actress, singer & writer 1966 - Stefan Edberg, tennis player1968 - Kimberly Bergalis, HIV pioneer (d. 1991) 1971 - Shawn Wayans, actor, writer, producer 1971 - John Wozniak, singer, songwriter of Marcy Playground 1973 - Drea de Matteo, actress 1973 - Karen Lancaume, pornographic actress (d. 2005) 1974 - Jaime Moreno, D.C. United striker 1982 - Jodie Sweetin, actress 1983 - Utada Hikaru, singer/composer/songwriter 1985 - Rika Ishikawa, Morning Musume Member, Singer1992 - Logan Lerman, American actor
Deaths 1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)1847 - Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer1874 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)1878 - Henri Victor Regnault physcisist and chemist (b. 1810)1905 - Debendranath Tagore, philosopher (b. 1817)1968 - Ray Harroun, first winner of the Indianapolis 500 (b. 1879)1969 - Jan Palach, student, political activist (b. 1948)1971 - Harry Shields, jazz musician (b. 1899)1972 - Michael Rabin, concert violinist1975 - Thomas Hart Benton, muralist (b. 1889)1980 - William O. Douglas, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice1990 - Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906) 1990 - Rajneesh, religious leader1991 - John Russell, American actor1996 - Don Simpson, American film producer1997 - James Dickey, poet, novelist (b. 1923)1998 - Carl Perkins, guitarist (b. 1932)2000 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934) 2000 - Hedy Lamarr, actress (b. 1913)2004 - David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)2005 - Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924) 2005 - Donald Beardslee, United States murderer, executed in California (b. 1943) 2005 - K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974) 2005 - Hans Gratzer, Austrian director and theatre manager 2005 - Ardyth Kennelly, US novelist 2005 - Ricardo Suriñach, Catholic Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico (2000-2003) (b. 1928)
Holidays and observances
January 18 - January 20 - December 19 - February 19 -- listing of all days
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