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, causing the Year 2038 problem.

Births

• 399 – Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)
• 1544 – King Francis II of France (d. 1560)
• 1736 – James Watt, American inventor (d. 1819)
• 1739 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (d. 1808)
• 1807 – Robert E. Lee, American 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, French 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 and comedian (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
• 1913 – Minnesota Fats, American billiards player (d. 1996)
• 1917 – John Raitt, American singer and actor (d. 2005)
• 1919 – 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, actress
• 1923 – Markus Wolf, German spy
• 1924 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1924 – Jean-Francois Revel, French author
• 1926 – Fritz Weaver, actor
• 1927 – Nancy Dickerson, journalist (d. 1997)
• 1931 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
• 1931 – Robert MacNeil, journalist
• 1932 – Richard Lester, British director
• 1939 – Phil Everly, American musician
• 1941 – Colin Gunton, theologian
• 1942 – Michael Crawford, singer, actor
• 1943 – Janis Joplin, singer (d. 1970)
• 1943  – Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
• 1944 – Shelley Fabares, American actress
• 1944  – Dan Reeves, American football coach
• 1944  – Peter Lynch, American investor
• 1945 – Maria Jespen, theologian
• 1946 – Dolly Parton, singer, actress
• 1946  – Julian Barnes, author
• 1946  – Susan Vreeland, author
• 1949 – Robert Palmer, singer and guitarist (d. 2003)
• 1949  – Dennis Taylor, Irish snooker player
• 1952 – David Patrick Kelly, American actor
• 1953 – Desi Arnaz Jr., actor
• 1954 – Katey Sagal, American actress
• 1955 – Simon Rattle, English conductor
• 1955  – Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American actor, comedian
• 1957 – Katey Sagal, actress, singer, and writer
• 1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
• 1968 – Kimberly Bergalis, HIV pioneer (d. 1991)
• 1971 – Shawn Wayans, actor, writer, producer
• 1971  – John Wozniak, singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground)
• 1973 – Drea de Matteo, actress
• 1973 – Karen Lancaume, pornographic actress (d. 2005)
• 1974 – Jaime Moreno, footballer
• 1982 – Jodie Sweetin, actress
• 1983 – Utada Hikaru, singer and songwriter
• 1985 – Rika Ishikawa, singer (a former menber of Morning Musume)
• 1992 – Logan Lerman, American actor

Deaths

• 639 – Dagobert I, king of the Franks
• 1526 – Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
• 1729 – William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
• 1847 – Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer
• 1874 – 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 violinist (b. 1936)
• 1975 – Thomas Hart Benton, painter (b. 1889)
• 1980 – William O. Douglas, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice (b. 1898)
• 1990 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
• 1990  – Rajneesh, religious leader (b. 1931)
• 1991 – John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
• 1996 – Don Simpson, American film producer
• 1997 – 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

• Eastern Orthodoxy — Julian Calendar Theophany (Epiphany)
• Bahá'í Faith — Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty) — First day of the 17th month of the Bahá'í Calendar
• Confederate Heroes Day in Texas

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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