January 19

Important event in history that happen in 19 January, janari, januari, Януари, Leden, jaanuar, जनवरी, gennaio, siječanj, janvāris, sausis, január, Enero, styczeń, janvier, ianuarie, Январь, јануар, tammikuu, มกราคม, Ocak, Січень, tháng một, Ιανουάριος, Jan.

379 - Theodosius installed as co-emperor of East Roman Empire
973 - Pope Benedictus VI elected
1419 - French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War
1493 - France cedes Roussillon & Cerdagne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona
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
1668 - King Louis XIV & Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain
1714 - Richard Steele publishes "Crisis," defending Hanoverian success
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling [OS= Jan 8]
1770 - Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
1793 - French King Louis XVI sentenced to death
1795 - Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy
1806 - Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope
1808 - Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law
1810 - Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50°F (10°C)
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.
1825 - Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans
1829 - Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres
1833 - Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland
1839 - Aden conquered by British East India Company
1840 - Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim)
1853 - Napoleon III marries Eugenie de Montijo
1853 - Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," premieres in Rome
1861 - Georgia becomes 5th state to secede
1861 - MS troops take Ft Massachusetts an Ship Island
1862 - Battle of Mill Springs, KY (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads)
1863 - General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland
1865 - NV Suriname Bank established
1865 - Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC
1871 - 1st Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey
1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1884 - Jules Massenet's opera "Manon," premieres in Paris
1885 - Battle at Abu Klea Sudan: 800-1000 killed
1886 - Aurora Ski Club, 1st in US, founded in Minnesota
1893 - Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin.
1898 - Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game
1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms
1903 - 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
1903 - New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced
1906 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Und Pippa Tanzt!," premieres in Berlin
1909 - Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way," premieres in NYC
1910 - Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty
1910 - National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress
1913 - Raymond Poincaré installed as president of France
1915 - 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die
1915 - Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude
1917 - Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die
1918 - Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly
1918 - Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
1919 - "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 m high x 25 m wide kills dozens, Boston
1920 - Alexandre Millerand forms French govt
1920 - US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations
1921 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
1922 - Geological survey says US oil supply would be depleted in 20 years
1923 - WMC-AM in Memphis TN begins radio transmissions
1925 - -48°F (-44°C), Van Buren, Maine (state record)
1927 - British govt decides to send troops to China
1929 - Acadia National Park, Maine established
1929 - Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 sec
1932 - Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, 1st coming at 7 seconds of game
1934 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement
1935 - KLM begins flight path between Curacao & Aruba
1935 - Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
1937 - Cy Young, Tris Speaker & Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1937 - Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record (7h28m25s)
1938 - GM began mass production of diesel engines
1939 - Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 sec
1941 - British offensive in Eritrea
1941 - British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan
1942 - Japanese forces invade Burma
1942 - Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers
1943 - Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily
1947 - SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392
1949 - Cuba recognises Israel.
1950 - Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane
1952 - NFL takes control of NY Yanks
1952 - PGA approves allowing black participants
1953 - Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary
1955 - "Millionaire" TV program premieres on CBS
1955 - "Scrabble" debuts on board game market
1955 - 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower)
1956 - Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League
1960 - Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact
1961 - 1st episode for "Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed
1964 - AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 27-24
1964 - KFME TV channel 13 in Fargo, ND (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister
1966 - Neil Simons, Coleman & Fields' musical "Sweet Charity," premieres
1966 - Tippetts cantate "Vision of St Augustine," premieres in London
1967 - Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will "Vse Zene" (All to wife)
1968 - WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 - AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-25
1969 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1969 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 10-7
1970 - Dutch bishops says he is in favor of married priest
1970 - Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails)
1970 - UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist
1971 - "No, No Nanette" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 861 performances
1971 - 24th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 2-1 at Boston
1971 - Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial
1971 - NHL Writers' Assn renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Assn
1972 - Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, & Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame
1974 - Belgium govt of Leburton falls
1974 - Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak
1975 - 4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq
1975 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Colgate Golf Triple Crown
1975 - Triple J begins broadcasting in Sydney, Australia.
1977 - Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame
1977 - Pres Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose)
1977 - World's largest crowd-12.7 million-for Indian religious festival
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 - Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame
1978 - Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI
1978 - The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.
1979 - John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison
1981 - Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide
1981 - US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
1982 - Aust-WI one-day game that produced a Privy Council libel case
1982 - Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Okla, kills 6 kids & teacher
1983 - Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia
1984 - Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km
1984 - Calif Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital
1985 - "Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen peaked at #9
1985 - 4 die in a car & train crash in Buda Ill
1986 - Cerebral Palsy telethon
1986 - Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands
1986 - Spain recognizes Israel
1987 - Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874
1988 - "48 Hours" premiers on CBS-TV
1989 - Pres Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
1990 - Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, v Australia at Adelaide
1991 - 42nd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 11-5 at Chicago
1991 - 48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves
1991 - Eastern Airlines shuts down operation
1991 - Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title
1991 - Sgt Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt
1992 - "City of Angels" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 878 performances
1992 - Cerebral Palsy telethon raises 23,500,000
1992 - IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992
1992 - Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble
1992 - Rowdy Roddy Piper beats Mountie to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
1993 - Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal
1993 - Oakland A's unveil new elephant logo
1993 - Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA
1993 - STS-54 (Endeavour) lands
1994 - -20°F (-29°C) (5:32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio
1994 - -36°F (-38°C) in New Whiteland, Indiana (state record)
1995 - Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg
1996 - NHL approves move of Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix
1997 - 54th Golden Globes: English Patient, Brenda Blethyn & Geoffrey Rush
1997 - Cerebral Palsy telethon
1997 - Michelle McGann wins LPGA Healthsouth Inaugural
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 - 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 - Terrorist blows himself up in Tel Aviv, killing only himself but injuring 20 people, one of them seriously.
2007 - Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast.