January 19

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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)

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

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.
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.
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 sets himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968.
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.
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.

2038 - A common representation of Unix time suffers arithmetic overflow.

Births

399 - Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)
1544 - Francis II of France
1736 - James Watt, builder of steam engines (d. 1819)
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 C�zanne, 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)
1920 - Javier P�rez de Cu�llar, United Nations Secretary General
1921 - Patricia Highsmith, author (d. 1995)
1923 - Jean Stapleton, actress
1926 - Fritz Weaver, actor
1931 - Tippi Hedren, actress
1931 - Robert MacNeil, journalist
1932 - Richard Lester, British director
1939 - Phil Everly, musician
1942 - Michael Crawford, singer, actor
1943 - Janis Joplin, singer (d. 1970)
1943 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
1945 - Maria Jespen, theologian
1946 - Dolly Parton, singer, actress
1946 - Julian Barnes, author
1949 - Robert Palmer, singer, guitarist (d. 2003)
1949 - Dennis Taylor, North Irish snooker player
1953 - Desi Arnaz Jr., actor
1955 - Simon Rattle, conductor
1966 - Stefan Edberg, tennis player
1971 - Shawn Wayans, actor, writer, producer
1971 - John Wozniak, singer, songwriter of Marcy Playground
1973 - Drea de Matteo, actress
1982 - Jodie Sweetin, actress
1983 - Utada Hikaru, singer/composer/songwriter

Deaths

1847 - Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer
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)
1975 - Thomas Hart Benton, muralist (b. 1889)
1990 - Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
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)

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

January 18 - January 20 - December 19 - February 19 -- listing of all days

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