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January 19 Gregorian calendar . There are 346 days remaining until the end of the year (347 in leap years ).
Events
1419 - Hundred Years' War : Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy .1511 - Mirandola surrenders to the French .1520 - Sten Sture the Younger , the Regent of Sweden , was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund .1607 - San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is currently the oldest church in the Philippines 1764 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel .1788 - Second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay .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 .1812 - Peninsular War : After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo .1817 - An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín , crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru .1829 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 's Faust Part 1 1839 - The 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 Rome .1862 - American Civil War : Battle of Mill Springs - The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.1871 - Franco-Prussian War : Battle of St. Quentin is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison , begins service at Roselle, New Jersey .1893 - Henrik Ibsen 's play The Master Builder Berlin .1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.1915 - Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising .1915 - World War I : 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.
1917 - German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico , proposing a German-Mexican alliance against the United States.1917 - Silvertown explosion : 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London .
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. sells the world's first briefs .1937 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.1941 - World War II : British troops attack Italian -held Eritrea .1942 - World War II : Japanese forces invade Burma .1945 - World War II : Soviet forces liberate the ghetto of Łódź . 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 television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy Lucy give birth.1966 - Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India .1969 - Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier 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 - The revival of No, No, Nanette 46th Street Theatre , in New York City.1975 - Triple J begins broadcasting in Sydney , Australia .1977 - President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose ").1977 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida . This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas .
1978 - The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden . Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003 .1981 - Iran Hostage Crisis : United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.1983 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia .1983 - The Apple Lisa , the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse , is announced.
1991 - The Party of the Alliance of Youth, Workers and Farmers of Angola is founded in Luanda , Angola .1992 - Decree time is restored in Russia after its previous abolition in March 1991 .1993 - IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, 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.2006 - Terrorist blows himself up in Tel Aviv , killing only himself but injuring 20 people, one of them seriously.2006 - A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary .2006 - The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto .
2006 - Jet Airways announces its purchase of Air Sahara , creating the largest domestic airline in India .
2007 - Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast .
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 )1757 - Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf , German Princess (d. 1831 )1807 - Robert E. Lee , American Confederate general (d. 1870 )1808 - Lysander Spooner , American philosopher (d. 1887 )1809 - Edgar Allan Poe , American writer and poet (d. 1849 )1813 - Sir Henry Bessemer , English inventor (d. 1898 )1832 - Ferdinand Laub , Czech violinist (d. 1875 )1833 - Alfred Clebsch , German mathematician (d. 1872 )1839 - Paul Cézanne , French painter (d. 1906 )1848 - John F. Stairs , Canadian businessman (d. 1904 )1851 - Jacobus Kapteyn , Dutch astronomer (d. 1922 )1863 - Werner Sombart , German sociologist (d. 1941 )1878 - Herbert Chapman , English football player and manager (d. 1934 )1879 - Boris Savinkov , Russian writer (d. 1925 )1887 - Alexander Woollcott , American intellectual (d. 1943 )1892 - Ólafur Thors , Icelandic politician (d. 1964 )1905 - Stanley Hawes , British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (d. 1991 )1908 - Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh , Russian mathematician (d. 1971 )1909 - Hans Hotter , German bass-baritone (d. 2003 )1912 - Leonid Kantorovich , Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986 )1913 - Rex Ingamells , Australian poet (d. 1955 )1913 - "Minnesota Fats" , American billiards player (d. 1996 )
1914 - Bob Gerard , British racing driver (d. 1990 )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 - "Billy Batts" Devino , American gangster (d. 1970 )1921 - Patricia Highsmith , American author (d. 1995 )
1922 - Guy Madison , American actor (d. 1996 )1923 - Markus Wolf , German spy (d. 2006 )1923 - Jean Stapleton , American actress1924 - Nicholas Colasanto , American actor (d. 1985 )1924 - Jean-François Revel , French author (d. 2006 )
1925 - Nina Bawden , English author1926 - Fritz Weaver , American actor1930 - Tippi Hedren , American actress1931 - Robert MacNeil , Canadian journalist1932 - Richard Lester , British director1935 - Johnny O'Keefe , Australian singer (d. 1978 )1936 - Ziaur Rahman , President of Bangladesh (d. 1981 )1939 - Phil Everly , American musician1940 - Paolo Borsellino , Italian magistrate (d. 1992 )1940 - Mike Reid , English comedian (d. 2007 )
1941 - Tony Anholt , British actor (d. 2002 )1941 - Colin Gunton , British theologian (d. 2003 )
1942 - Michael Crawford , British singer and actor1943 - Janis Joplin , American singer (d. 1970 )1943 - Petchara Chaowarat , Thai film actress
1943 - Larry Clark , American film director
1943 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
1944 - Shelley Fabares , American actress1944 - Laurie London , English singer
1944 - Peter Lynch , American investor
1944 - Dan Reeves , American football coach
1946 - Julian Barnes , English author1946 - Dolly Parton , American singer and actress
1947 - Ann Compton , American news reporter1947 - Paula Deen , American chef and restaurateur
1947 - Rod Evans , British musician (Deep Purple )
1948 - Frank McKenna , Canadian politician1949 - Robert Palmer , English singer and guitarist (d. 2003 )1949 - Dennis Taylor , Northern Irish snooker player
1950 - Sébastien Dhavernas , Quebec actor1950 - Grant Nordman , Canadian politician
1951 - Dewey Bunnell , American singer and songwriter (America )1953 - Desi Arnaz, Jr. , American actor1953 - Linda Hayden , English actress
1953 - Richard Legendre , Canadian politician
1954 - Ted DiBiase , American professional wrestler1954 - Katey Sagal , American actress
1954 - Cindy Sherman , American artist
1954 - Katharina Thalbach , German actress and film director
1955 - Simon Rattle , English conductor1955 - Paul Rodriguez , Mexican-born actor and comedian
1956 - Carman Licciardello , American Christian singer1957 - Kenneth McClintock , Puerto Rican politician1962 - Hans Daams , Dutch cyclist1963 - Michael Adams , American basketball player1963 - Martin Bashir , Pakistani-born reporter
1963 - Caron Wheeler , British singer (Soul II Soul )
1964 - Janine Antoni , Bahamian artist1964 - Ricardo Arjona , Guatemalan singer
1966 - Floris Jan Bovelander , Dutch field hockey player1966 - Sylvain Côté , Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Stefan Edberg , Swedish tennis player
1966 - Lena Philipsson , Swedish singer
1967 - Javier Cámara , Spanish actor1969 - Edwidge Danticat , Haitian-born American author1969 - Predrag Mijatović , Yugoslavian footballer
1969 - Junior Seau , American football player
1969 - Steve Staunton , Irish footballer
1969 - Luc Longley , Australian basketball player
1970 - Udo Suzuki , Japanese comedian1971 - Shawn Wayans , American actor and producer1971 - John Wozniak , American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground )
1972 - Joana Benedek , Mexican actress1972 - Elena Kaliská , Slovak slalom canoer
1972 - Ron Killings , American professional wrestler
1972 - Princess Kalina of Bulgaria , titular Bulgarian royal family
1972 - Troy Wilson , Australian racing driver and AFL player
1972 - Angham , Egyptian singer, record producer and actress
1973 - Drea de Matteo , American actress1973 - Antero Manninen , Finnish Cellist
1974 - Frank Caliendo , American comedian1974 - Ian Laperrière , Canadian ice hockey player
1974 - Jaime Moreno , Bolivian footballer
1975 - Noah Georgeson , American Musician and Producer1976 - Tarso Marques , Brazilian racing driver1977 - Lauren Etame Mayer , Cameroonian footballer1977 - Nicole , Chilean singer
1977 - Cocco , Ryukyuan singer
1979 - Svetlana Khorkina , Russian gymnast1979 - Josu Sarriegi , Spanish/Basque footballer
1979 - Wiley , English Rapper (Grime)
1980 - Jenson Button , English Formula One driver1980 - Kotoko , Japanese Singer
1981 - Asier Del Horno , Spanish footballer1981 - Lucho González , Argentine footballer
1982 - Angela Chang , Taiwanese singer and actress1982 - Mike Komisarek , American ice hockey player
1982 - Jodie Sweetin , American child actress
1983 - Hikaru Utada , American-born Japanese singer and songwriter1984 - Euan Blair , Eldest son of Tony Blair 1984 - Karun Chandhok , Indian racing driver
1984 - Thomas Vanek , Austrian ice hockey player
1985 - Benny Feilhaber , American soccer player1985 - Esteban Guerrieri , Argentine racing driver
1985 - Rika Ishikawa , Japanese singer (Morning Musume )
1987 - Edgar Manucharyan , Armenian footballer1991 - Erin Sanders , American child actress1992 - Logan Lerman , American child actor
Deaths
639 - Dagobert I , King of the Franks (c. 603 )1526 - Isabella of Burgundy , wife of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501 )1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey , English poet (b. 1517 )1576 - Hans Sachs , German Meistersinger (b. 1494 )1661 - Thomas Venner , Fifth Monarchist (executed) (b. 1799 )1729 - William Congreve , English playwright (b. 1670 )1757 - Thomas Ruddiman , Scottish classical scholar (b. 1674 )1766 - Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni , Italian-born French architect and painter (b. 1695 )1785 - Jonathan Toup , English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713 )1833 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold , French composer (b. 1791 )1847 - Charles Bent , New Mexico pioneer (assassinated)1851 - Esteban Echeverría , Argentine writer (b. 1805 )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 )1927 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840 )1929 - Liang Qichao , Chinese scholar (b. 1873 )1939 - Cliff Heathcote , American baseball player (b. 1898 )1948 - Tony Garnier , French architect (b. 1869 )1954 - Theodor Kaluza , German scientist (b. 1885 )1957 - József Dudás , Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (b. 1912 )1964 - Firmin Lambot , Belgian cyclist (b. 1886 )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 , American violinist (b. 1936 )1973 - Max Adrian , Northern Irish actor (b. 1903 )1975 - Thomas Hart Benton , American painter (b. 1889 )1980 - William O. Douglas , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1898 )1982 - Elis Regina , Brazilian singer (b. 1945 )1983 - Ham the Chimp , First hominid launched into outer space (b. 1956 )1984 - Max Bentley , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920 )1990 - Rajneesh , Indian religious leader (b. 1931 )1990 - Semprini , English musician (b. 1908 )
1990 - Herbert Wehner , German politician (b. 1906 )
1991 - John Russell , American actor (b. 1921 )1991 - Marcel Chaput , Quebec politician (b. 1918 )
1995 - Gene MacLellan , Canadian composer and singer (b. 1938 )1996 - Don Simpson , American film producer (b. 1943 )1997 - James Dickey , American writer (b. 1923 )1997 - Adriana Caselotti , American actress (b 1916 )
1998 - Carl Perkins , American guitarist (b. 1932 )1999 - Ivan Francescato , Italian rugby union footballer (b. 1967 )2000 - Bettino Craxi , Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934 )2000 - Hedy Lamarr , Austrian-born actress (b. 1913 )
2001 - Dario Vittori , Argentinean actor (b. 1921 )2003 - Françoise Giroud , French writer and journalist (b. 1916 )2004 - Harry E. Claiborne , American judge (suicide) (b. 1917 )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 )
2006 - Anthony Franciosa , American actor (b. 1928 )2006 - Wilson Pickett , American singer (b. 1941 )
2006 - Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim , Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1933 )
2006 - Geoff Rabone , New Zealand cricket player (b. 1921 )
2007 - Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow , American professional wrestler (b. 1961 )2007 - Hrant Dink , Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954 )
2007 - Denny Doherty , Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas ) (b. 1940 )
2007 - Murat Nasyrov , Russian singer and composer (b. 1969 )
2008 - Suzanne Pleshette , American actress (b. 1937 )2008 - John Stewart , American musician (The Kingston Trio ) (b. 1939 )
2008 - Don Wittman , Canadian sportscaster for CBC (b. 1936 )
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