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 Bogesund1764 - 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 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 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 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 .
Births 399 - Pulcheria , Byzantine empress (d. 453 )1544 - Francis II of France 1736 - James Watt , builder of steam engines (d. 1819 )1739 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder , architect (d. 1808 )1807 - Robert E. Lee , 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 , 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, comedian (d. 1994 )1909 - Hans Hotter , German bass-baritone (d. 2003 )1913 - Minnesota Fats , American billiards player (d. 1996 )1917 - John Raitt , American singer, actor1919 - 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 , actress1923 - Markus Wolf , German spy1924 - Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985 )1926 - Fritz Weaver , actor1927 - Nancy Dickerson , journalist (d. 1997 )1931 - Tippi Hedren , actress1931 - Robert MacNeil , journalist1932 - Richard Lester , British director1939 - Phil Everly , musician1942 - Michael Crawford , singer, actor1943 - Janis Joplin , singer (d. 1970 )1943 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands 1944 - Shelley Fabares , American actress1944 - Dan Reeves , American football coach 1944 - Peter Lynch , American investor 1945 - Maria Jespen , theologian1946 - Dolly Parton , singer, actress1946 - Julian Barnes , author 1946 - Susan Vreeland, author 1949 - Robert Palmer , singer, guitarist (d. 2003 )1949 - Dennis Taylor , North Irish snooker player 1953 - Desi Arnaz Jr. , actor1954 - Katey Sagal , American actress1955 - Simon Rattle , English conductor1955 - Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American actor, comedian 1957 - Katey Sagal , actress, singer & writer1966 - Stefan Edberg , tennis player1968 - Kimberly Bergalis , HIV pioneer (d. 1991 )1971 - Shawn Wayans , actor, writer, producer1971 - John Wozniak , singer, songwriter of Marcy Playground 1973 - Drea de Matteo , actress1974 - Jaime Moreno , D.C. United striker1982 - Jodie Sweetin , actress1983 - Utada Hikaru , singer/composer/songwriter1985 - Rika Ishikawa , Morning Musume Member, Singer1992 - Logan Lerman , Americn actor
Deaths 1847 - Charles Bent , New Mexico pioneer1878 - 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 violinist1975 - Thomas Hart Benton , muralist (b. 1889 )1980 - William O. Douglas , United States Supreme Court Associate Justice1990 - Herbert Wehner , German politician (b. 1906 )1990 - Rajneesh , religious leader 1991 - John Russell , American actor1995 - Ron Luciano , American baseball player1996 - Don Simpson , American film producer1997 - 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 )
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January 19th (2489 words)
He was laid so as to have a view of the altar of a chapel, and thus he followed the psalms which were sung. of January 1095, at midnight, he died in the eighty-seventh year of his age, and the thirty-third of his episcopate. Died at Ghent, of a broken heart, January 19, 1525, Isabel of Austria, Queen of Denmark, a 'nursing mother' of the Reformation.
January 19, 2005 Winter Storm (2751 words)
High temperatures on Monday, January 17 were only in the 30s while the low temperatures on Monday night were in the teens. High temperatures on Tuesday, January 18 were in the mid 20s to mid 30s with overnight lows on Tuesday night between 8 and 15 degrees. There are also relatively infrequent heavy snows in the South (e.g., 22.5 inches in Raleigh on January 24-25, 2000 ) that are etched into the memories of those who experienced them and the anticipation of their reoccurrence.
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