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
