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.
   * 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.
   * 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 for the first time, killing more than 20.
   * 1920 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of
     Nations
   * 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.
   * 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 sets himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas
     Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in
     1968.
   * 1971 - No, No Nanette premieres (46th Street Theatre, New York City).
   * 1977 - President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka "Tokyo
     Rose").
   * 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 personal computer 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.

Births

   * 399 - Pulcheria, Byzantine empress
   * 1736 - James Watt, builder of steam engines
   * 1807 - Robert E. Lee, Confederate general (+ 1870)
   * 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, poet, short story author (+ 1849)
   * 1813 - Sir Henry Bessemer, inventor
   * 1839 - Paul CŽzanne, painter (+ 1906)
   * 1848 - John F. Stairs, businessman, statesman (+ 1904)
   * 1887 - Alexander Woollcott, intellectual (+ 1943)
   * 1907 - Lilian Harvey, actress (+ 1968)
   * 1920 - Javier PŽrez de CuŽllar, United Nations Secretary General
   * 1921 - Patricia Highsmith, author (+ 1995)
   * 1923 - Jean Stapleton, actress
   * 1926 - Fritz Weaver, actor
   * 1931 - Tippi Hedren, actress
   * 1931 - Robert MacNeil, journalist
   * 1939 - Phil Everly, musician
   * 1942 - Michael Crawford, singer, actor
   * 1943 -
   * 1943 - Janis Joplin, singer (+ 1970)
   * 1943 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
   * 1945 - Maria Jespen, theologian
   * 1946 - Dolly Parton, singer, actress
   * 1949 - Robert Palmer, singer, guitarist
   * 1953 - Desi Arnaz Jr., actor
   * 1955 - Simon Rattle, conductor
   * 1971 - Shawn Wayans, actor, writer, producer
   * 1982 - Jodie Sweetin, actress

Deaths

   * 1847 - Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer
   * 1878 - Henri Victor Regnault physcisist and chemist
   * 1969 - Jan Palach, political activist
   * 1975 - Thomas Hart Benton, muralist
   * 1990 - Herbert Wehner, German politician
   * 1997 - James Dickey, poet, novelist
   * 1998 - Carl Perkins, guitarist
   * 2000 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy
   * 2000 - Hedy Lamarr, actress

Holidays and observances

   * Catholicism - Julian Calendar Theophany (Epiphany)
   * Bah‡'’ Faith - Feast of Sult‡n (Sovereignty) - First day of the 17th
     month of the Bah‡'’ Calendar

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