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 - Revival of 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 († 453) 1736 - James Watt, builder of steam engines († 1819) 1807 - Robert E. Lee, Confederate general († 1870) 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, poet, short story author († 1849) 1813 - Sir Henry Bessemer, inventor († 1898) 1839 - Paul Cézanne, painter († 1906) 1848 - John F. Stairs, businessman, statesman († 1904) 1851 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer 1887 - Alexander Woollcott, intellectual († 1943) 1907 - Lilian Harvey, actress († 1968) 1920 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 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 - Janis Joplin, singer († 1970) 1943 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands 1945 - Maria Jespen, theologian 1946 - Dolly Parton, singer, actress 1949 - Robert Palmer, singer, guitarist († 2003) 1953 - Desi Arnaz Jr, actor 1955 - Simon Rattle, conductor 1971 - Shawn Wayans, actor, writer, producer 1982 - Jodie Sweetin, actress 1983 - Utada Hikaru, singer/composer/songwriter 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) Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty) - First day of the 17th month of the Bahá'í Calendar See Also: January 18 - January 20 - December 19 - February 19 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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