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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 sious libel .
1795 - Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands . End of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands .
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 .
1862 - The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the American Civil War at the Battle of Mill Springs .
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 eld Eritrea .
1942 - World War II : Japanese forces invade Burma .
1945 - World War II : Soviet forces liberate ghetto of Lodz . Out of 230,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived Nazi occupation.
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 .
Births
399 - Pulcheria , Byzantine empress (d. 453 )
1544 - King Francis II of France (d. 1560 )
1736 - James Watt , Scottish inventor (d. 1819 )
1739 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder , Italian architect (d. 1808 )
1807 - Robert E. Lee , American Confederate general (d. 1870 )
1808 - Lysander Spooner , American philosopher (d. 1887 )
1809 - Edgar Allan Poe , American writer (d. 1849 )
1813 - Sir Henry Bessemer , English inventor (d. 1898 )
1839 - Paul Cézanne , French painter (d. 1906 )
1848 - John F. Stairs , Canadian businessman and statesman (d. 1904 )
1851 - Jacobus Kapteyn , Dutch astronomer (d. 1922 )
1863 - Werner Sombart , German sociologist (d. 1941 )
1887 - Alexander Woollcott , American intellectual (d. 1943 )
1909 - Hans Hotter , German bass-baritone (d. 2003 )
1912 - Leonid Kantorovich , Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986 )
1913 - Minnesota Fats , American billiards player (d. 1996 )
1917 - John Raitt , American singer and actor (d. 2005 )
1918 - John H. Johnson , American publisher (d. 2005 )
1920 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
1921 - Patricia Highsmith , American author (d. 1995 )
1922 - Guy Madison , American actor (d. 1996 )
1923 - Jean Stapleton , American actress
1923 - Markus Wolf , German spy
1924 - Nicholas Colasanto , American actor (d. 1985 )
1924 - Jean-Francois Revel , French author
1926 - Fritz Weaver , American actor
1931 - Tippi Hedren , American actress
1931 - Robert MacNeil , Canadian journalist
1932 - Richard Lester , British director
1939 - Phil Everly , American musician
1941 - Colin Gunton , theologian
1942 - Michael Crawford , British singer and actor
1943 - Janis Joplin , American 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
1946 - Dolly Parton , American singer and actress
1946 - Julian Barnes , English author
1948 - Frank McKenna , Premier of New Brunswick and Canadian Ambassador
1949 - Robert Palmer , English singer and guitarist (d. 2003 )
1949 - Dennis Taylor , Irish snooker player
1952 - David Patrick Kelly , American actor
1953 - Desi Arnaz Jr. , American actor
1955 - Simon Rattle , English conductor
1955 - Paul Rodriguez , Mexican-born actor and comedian
1956 - Katey Sagal , American actress, singer, and writer
1966 - Stefan Edberg , Swedish tennis player
1969 - Junior Seau , American football player
1971 - Shawn Wayans , actor, writer, producer
1971 - John Wozniak , American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground )
1973 - Drea de Matteo , American actress
1973 - Karen Lancaume , French actress (d. 2005 )
1974 - Jaime Moreno , Bolivian footballer
1979 - Svetlana Khorkina , Russian gymnast
1982 - Jodie Sweetin , American actress
1983 - Utada Hikaru , Japanese singer and songwriter
1985 - Rika Ishikawa , Japanese singer (Morning Musume )
1990 - Dane Miller , Great American Legend
1992 - Logan Lerman , American actor
1993 - Elián González , Cuban refugee
Deaths
639 - Dagobert I , King of the Franks
1526 - Isabella of Burgundy , queen of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501 )
1576 - Hans Sachs , German Meistersinger (b. 1494 )
1729 - William Congreve , English playwright (b. 1670 )
1757 - Thomas Ruddiman , Scottish classical scholar (b. 1674 )
1766 - Jean-Nicolas Servan , French architect and painter (b. 1695 )
1833 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold , French composer (b. 1791 )
1847 - Charles Bent , New Mexico pioneer (assassinated)
1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809 )
1869 - Carl Reichenbach , German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788 )
1874 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben , German poet (b. 1798 )
1878 - Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (b. 1810 )
1905 - Debendranath Tagore , Indian philosopher (b. 1817 )
1929 - Liang Qichao , Chinese scholar (b. 1873 )
1968 - Ray Harroun , American race car driver (b. 1879 )
1969 - Jan Palach , Czech student and political activist (suicide) (b. 1948 )
1971 - Harry Shields , American musician (b. 1899 )
1972 - Michael Rabin , violinist (b. 1936 )
1975 - Thomas Hart Benton , American painter (b. 1889 )
1980 - William O. Douglas , U.S. 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 (b. 1943 )
1997 - James Dickey , American writer (b. 1923 )
1998 - Carl Perkins , American guitarist (b. 1932 )
2000 - Bettino Craxi , Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934 )
2000 - Hedy Lamarr , Austrian-born 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 - K. Sello Duiker , South African novelist (b. 1974 )
Holidays and observances
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