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Information about 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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