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January 19
> • 1795 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the
Seven United Netherlands.
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• 1806 – The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Good Hope.
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 • 1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm
30 31 Ciudad Rodrigo.
MMXI • 1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José
de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to
January 19 in recent years
liberate Chile and then Peru.
2011 (Wednesday) • 1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust Part 1
2010 (Tuesday) receives its premiere performance.
2009 (Monday) • 1839 – The British East India Company captures
2008 (Saturday) Aden.
2007 (Friday) • 1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates
2006 (Thursday) Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes
Land for the United States.
2005 (Wednesday)
• 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore receives its
2004 (Monday) premiere performance in Rome.
2003 (Sunday) • 1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South
2002 (Saturday) Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in
January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian seceding from the United States.
calendar. There are 346 days remaining until the end of • 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs –
the year (347 in leap years). The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in
the conflict.
• 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris,
Events Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile,
• 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of
Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. • 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing
• 1419 – Hundred Years’ War: Rouen surrenders to overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins
Henry V of England completing his reconquest of service at Roselle, New Jersey.
Normandy. • 1893 – Henrik Ibsen’s play The Master Builder receives
• 1511 – Mirandola surrenders to the French. its premiere performance in Berlin.
• 1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of • 1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of • 1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge
Bogesund. tube for use in advertising.
• 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially • 1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the
completed; it is the oldest church still standing in towns of Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn in the
the Philippines. United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first
• 1661 – Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
quartered in London. • 1917 – Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400
• 1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in
of Commons for seditious libel. London.
• 1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet • 1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining
arrives at Botany Bay. the League of Nations.
• 1935 – Coopers Inc. sells the world’s first briefs.
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• 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying • 1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the
from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company
hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma • 2006 – A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in
• 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Hungary.
ghetto. Out more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, • 2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA
less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation. on the first mission to Pluto.
• 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the • 2007 – Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated
International Military Tribunal for the Far East in in front of his newspaper’s office by 17 year old
Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast.
• 1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel.
• 1953 – 68% of all television sets in the United States
are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
Births
• 1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan • 399 – Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)
Mutual Security Treaty • 1544 – King Francis II of France (d. 1560)
• 1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself • 1736 – James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)
on fire 3 days earlier in Prague’s Wenceslas Square to • 1739 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d.
protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet 1808)
Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major • 1752 – James Morris III, American army officer (d.
protest. 1820)
• 1975 – An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, • 1757 – Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d.
India 1831)
• 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri • 1798 – Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857)
D’Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). • 1807 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general
• 1977 – Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only (d. 1870)
time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It • 1808 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d.
also fell in the Bahamas. 1887)
• 1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany • 1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d.
leaves VW’s plant in Emden. Beetle production in 1849)
Latin America would continue until 2003. • 1813 – Sir Henry Bessemer, English inventor (d. 1898)
• 1981 – Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian • 1832 – Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (d. 1875)
officials sign an agreement to release 52 American • 1833 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d.
hostages after 14 months of captivity. 1872)
• 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in • 1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
Bolivia. • 1848 – John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904)
• 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal • 1848 – Matthew Webb, English swimmer/diver (d.
computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user 1883)
interface and a computer mouse, is announced. • 1851 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
• 1986 – The first computer virus released into the • 1863 – Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d. 1941)
wild is a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created • 1871 – Dame Gruev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1906)
by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, • 1874 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo
reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (d. 1922)
written. • 1876 – Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo
• 1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (d. 1943)
Israel, causing 15 injuries. • 1876 – Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet (d. 1899)
• 1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United • 1878 – Herbert Chapman, English football player and
Nations. manager (d. 1934)
• 1996 – The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an • 1879 – Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (d. 1925)
engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on • 1887 – Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual
Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. (d. 1943)
• 1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more • 1889 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and
than 30 years and joins celebrations over the sculptor (d. 1943)
handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank • 1892 – Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician (d. 1964)
city. • 1893 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian classical pianist
(d. 1986)
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• 1905 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film • 1947 – Ann Compton, American news reporter
producer, director and administrator (d. 1991) • 1947 – Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur
• 1908 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian • 1947 – Rod Evans, British musician (Deep Purple)
mathematician (d. 1971) • 1948 – Frank McKenna, Canadian politician
• 1909 – Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003) • 1949 – Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d.
• 1911 – Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (d. 2009) 2003)
• 1912 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel • 1949 – Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player
Prize laureate (d. 1986) • 1950 – Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor
• 1913 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955) • 1950 – Grant Nordman, Canadian politician
• 1914 – Bob Gerard, British racing driver (d. 1990) • 1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
• 1917 – John Raitt, American singer and actor (d. • 1953 – Linda Hayden, English actress
2005) • 1953 – Richard Legendre, Canadian politician
• 1918 – John H. Johnson, American publisher (d. 2005) • 1954 – Katey Sagal, American actress
• 1920 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United • 1954 – Cindy Sherman, American photographer
Nations Secretary General • 1954 – Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film
• 1921 – William ’Billy Batts’ Devino, American director
gangster (d. 1970) • 1955 – Simon Rattle, English conductor
• 1921 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995) • 1955 – Paul Rodriguez, Mexican/American actor and
• 1922 – Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996) comedian
• 1923 – Jean Stapleton, American actress • 1956 – Carman Licciardello, American singer
• 1923 – Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006) • 1957 – Ottis Anderson, former American football
• 1924 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985) player
• 1924 – Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006) • 1957 – Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician
• 1925 – Nina Bawden, English author • 1959 – Jeff Pilson, American bass guitarist
• 1926 – Fritz Weaver, American actor • 1961 – William Ragsdale, American actor
• 1930 – Tippi Hedren, American actress • 1962 – Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
• 1931 – Robert MacNeil, Canadian journalist • 1962 – Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball coach
• 1932 – Richard Lester, British director • 1962 – Chris Sabo, American baseball player
• 1932 – Russ Hamilton, British singer (d. 2008) • 1963 – Michael Adams, American basketball player
• 1933 – George Coyne, American theologian • 1963 – Martin Bashir, Pakistani-born reporter
• 1934 – Lloyd Robertson, Canadian journalist • 1963 – Caron Wheeler, British singer (Soul II Soul)
• 1935 – Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor • 1964 – Janine Antoni, Bahamian artist
• 1935 – Johnny O’Keefe, Australian singer (d. 1978) • 1964 – Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer
• 1936 – Ziaur Rahman, Seventh President of • 1966 – Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey
Bangladesh (d. 1981) player
• 1937 – John Lions, Australian computer scientist (d. • 1966 – Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
1998) • 1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
• 1937 – Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter • 1966 – Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
• 1939 – Phil Everly, American musician • 1967 – Javier Cámara, Spanish actor
• 1940 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992) • 1968 – Whitfield Crane, American musician (Ugly Kid
• 1940 – Mike Reid, English comedian (d. 2007) Joe)
• 1941 – Tony Anholt, British actor (d. 2002) • 1969 – Edwidge Danticat, Haitian/American author
• 1941 – Colin Gunton, British theologian (d. 2003) • 1969 – Luc Longley, Australian basketball player
• 1941 – Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler • 1969 – Predrag Mijatović, Yugoslavian footballer
• 1942 – Michael Crawford, British singer and actor • 1969 – Junior Seau, American football player
• 1942 – Thom Mayne, American Architect • 1969 – Casey Sherman, American author
• 1943 – Petchara Chaowarat, Thai film actress • 1969 – Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
• 1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970) • 1970 – Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete
• 1943 – Princess Margriet of the Netherlands • 1970 – Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian
• 1944 – Shelley Fabares, American actress • 1971 – Shawn Wayans, American actor
• 1944 – Laurie London, English singer • 1971 – John Wozniak, American singer and
• 1944 – Peter Lynch, American investor songwriter (Marcy Playground)
• 1944 – Dan Reeves, American football coach • 1972 – Angham, Egyptian singer, record producer
• 1945 – Trevor Williams, English Bass Guitarist and actress
• 1946 – Julian Barnes, English author • 1972 – Joana Benedek, Mexican actress
• 1946 – Dolly Parton, American singer and actress • 1972 – Jon Fisher, American entrepreneur
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1972 – Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
1972 – Elena Kaliská, Slovak slalom canoer
Deaths
• 1972 – Ron Killings, American professional wrestler • 639 – Dagobert I, King of the Franks (b. c. 603)
• 1972 – Drea de Matteo, American actress • 1526 – Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of
• 1972 – Troy Wilson, Australian racing driver and AFL Denmark (b. 1501)
player • 1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b.
• 1973 – Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist 1517)
• 1973 – Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer • 1576 – Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (b. 1494)
• 1973 – Aaron Yonda, YouTube celebrity • 1661 – Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed)
• 1974 – Frank Caliendo, American comedian (b. 1599)
• 1974 – Ian Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player • 1729 – William Congreve, English playwright (b.
• 1974 – Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer 1670)
• 1975 – Noah Georgeson, American musician • 1757 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar
• 1976 – Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer (b. 1674)
• 1976 – Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver • 1766 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-born
• 1977 – Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor French architect and painter (b. 1695)
• 1977 – Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer • 1785 – Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and
• 1977 – Nicole, Chilean singer critic (b. 1713)
• 1977 – Cocco, Japanese singer • 1833 – Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French
• 1979 – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast composer (b. 1791)
• 1979 – Josu Sarriegi, Spanish/Basque footballer • 1847 – Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer
• 1979 – Wiley, English rapper (assassinated) (b. 1799)
• 1980 – Jenson Button, English Formula One driver • 1851 – Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (b. 1805)
• 1980 – Kotoko, Japanese singer • 1865 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher
• 1980 – Luke Macfarlane, Canadian actor and anarchist (b. 1809)
• 1981 – Kerby Raymundo, Filipino basketball player • 1869 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and
• 1981 – Asier Del Horno, Spanish footballer philosopher (b. 1788)
• 1981 – Lucho González, Argentine footballer • 1874 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben,
• 1981 – Dimosthenis Manousakis, Greek footballer German poet (b. 1798)
• 1981 – Bitsie Tulloch, American actress • 1878 – Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and
• 1982 – Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress chemist (b. 1810)
• 1982 – Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player • 1905 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b.
• 1982 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress 1817)
• 1983 – Hikaru Utada, American/Japanese singer and • 1906 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine historian and
songwriter politician, president of the country (b. 1821)
• 1984 – Fabio Catacchini, Italian footballer • 1915 – Thomas Herbst, German painter (b. 1848)
• 1984 – Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver • 1925 – Queen Maria Sophia of Two Sicilies (b.1841)
• 1984 – Jimmy Kebe, Malian footballer • 1927 – Charlotte of Belgium (b. 1840)
• 1984 – Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player • 1929 – Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
• 1985 – Jake Allen, American football player • 1939 – Branislav Nušić, Serbian novelist, playwright,
• 1985 – Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player satirist, essayist and journalist (b. 1864)
• 1985 – Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine racing driver • 1939 – Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b.
• 1985 – Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (Morning 1898)
Musume) • 1948 – Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
• 1986 – Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer • 1954 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and
• 1986 – Loren Galler-Rabinowitz, American ice dancer physicist (b. 1885)
• 1987 – Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer • 1957 – József Dudás, Romanian/Hungarian resistance
• 1987 – Angus Monfries, Australian league footballer fighter (b. 1912)
• 1988 – JaVale McGee, American Basketball Player • 1964 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
• 1991 – Erin Sanders, American actress • 1965 – Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter and
• 1992 – Logan Lerman, American actor Olympic medalist (b. 1905)
• 1992 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast • 1968 – Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b.
• 1992 – Mac Miller, American rapper 1879)
• 1993 – Gus Lewis, English actor • 1969 – Jan Palach, Czech student and political activist
(suicide) (b. 1948)
• 1971 – Harry Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
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• 1972 – Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936) • 2007 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper
• 1973 – Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (b. 1903) editor (b. 1954)
• 1975 – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. • 2007 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas
1889) & the Papas) (b. 1940)
• 1976 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer • 2007 – Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer
(b. 1886) (b. 1969)
• 1980 – William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court • 2008 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
Justice (b. 1898) • 2008 – John Stewart, American musician (The
• 1982 – Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945) Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
• 1983 – Ham the Chimp, First hominid launched into • 2008 – Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster for CBC
outer space (b. 1956) (b. 1936)
• 1984 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. • 2010 – Jennifer Lyon, American reality television
1920) personality (Survivor) (b. 1972)
• 1987 – Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist (b. • 2010 – Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby commentator (b.
1927) 1923)
• 1990 – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian religious • 2011 – Ernest McCulloch, stem cell research pioneer
leader (b. 1931) (b. 1926)
• 1990 – Semprini, English musician (b. 1908)
• 1990 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
• 1991 – Marcel Chaput, French-Canadian politician (b.
Holidays and observances
1918) • Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe (commemorated by the
• 1991 – John Russell, American actor (b. 1921) Poe Toaster at his grave in Baltimore)
• 1995 – Gene MacLellan, Canadian composer and • Christian Feast Day:
singer (b. 1938) • Henry of Uppsala
• 1996 – Don Simpson, American film producer (b. • Maris, Martha, Abachum and Audifax
1943) • Mark of Ephesus
• 1997 – Adriana Caselotti, American actress (b. 1916) • Pontianus
• 1997 – James Dickey, American writer (b. 1923) • Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester
• 1998 – Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932) • January 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• 1999 – Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby union • Confederate Heroes Day (Texas)
footballer (b. 1967) • Robert E. Lee Day (Florida on the 19th of January)
• 2000 – Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934) and (Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Georgia on
• 2000 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress and or around the 19th of January)
inventor (b. 1913) • Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty), first day of the 17th
• 2001 – Dario Vittori, Argentine actor (b. 1921) month of the Bahá’í calendar (Bahá’í Faith)
• 2003 – Françoise Giroud, French writer and journalist • Theophany / Epiphany (Eastern and Oriental
(b. 1916) Orthodoxy), and its related observances:
• 2004 – Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (suicide) • Timkat, or 20 during Leap Year (Ethiopian
(b. 1917) Orthodox)
• 2004 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach • Vodici or Baptism of Jesus (Republic of Macedonia)
(b. 1955)
• 2005 – Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and
trade union leader (b. 1924)
External links
• 2005 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. • BBC: On This Day
1974) • The New York Times: On This Day
• 2005 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (b. • On This Day in Canada
1976)
• 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 cricketer (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, American
professional wrestler (b. 1961)
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