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
- 1955 - Simon Rattle, English conductor
- 1955 - Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American actor, comedian
- 1956 - 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
- 1994 - Jonathan Wang, Australian citizen, Smart Boy
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
External links
January 18 - January 20 - December 19 - February 19 -- listing of all days
See also: January 19, 1419, 1501, 1520, 1526
