January 19th Events |
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| January 19th, 2007 (January 19 2007) | Event | Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink assassinated in front of his newspaper s office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogun Samast. | |
| January 19th, 2006 (January 19 2006) | Event | Terrorist blows himself up in Tel Aviv, killing only himself but injuring 20 people, one of them seriously. | |
| January 19th, 2006 (January 19 2006) | Event | A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary. | |
| January 19th, 2006 (January 19 2006) | Event | The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto. | |
| January 19th, 2006 (January 19 2006) | Event | Jet Airways announces its purchase of Air Sahara, creating the largest domestic airline in India. | |
| January 19th, 1997 (January 19 1997) | Event | Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. | Yasser Arafat Quotes |
| January 19th, 1993 (January 19 1993) | Event | IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history. | |
| January 19th, 1983 (January 19 1983) | Event | Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. | Klaus Barbie Quotes |
| January 19th, 1983 (January 19 1983) | Event | The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced. | |
| January 19th, 1981 (January 19 1981) | Event | Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. | |
| January 19th, 1978 (January 19 1978) | Event | The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW s plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003. | |
| January 19th, 1977 (January 19 1977) | Event | President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). | Gerald Ford Quotes |
| January 19th, 1977 (January 19 1977) | Event | Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurredied in It also fell in the Bahamas. | |
| January 19th, 1975 (January 19 1975) | Event | Triple J begins broadcasting in Sydney, Australia. | |
| January 19th, 1971 (January 19 1971) | Event | The revival of No, No, Nanette premieres at the 46th Street Theatre, in New York City. | |
| January 19th, 1969 (January 19 1969) | Event | 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. | |
| January 19th, 1966 (January 19 1966) | Event | Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India. | Indira Gandhi Quotes |
| January 19th, 1953 (January 19 1953) | Event | 68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. | |
| January 19th, 1949 (January 19 1949) | Event | Cuba recognises Israel. | |
| January 19th, 1946 (January 19 1946) | Event | General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. | Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| January 19th, 1945 (January 19 1945) | Event | World War II: Soviet forces liberate the ghetto of Lodz. Out of 230,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived Nazi occupation. | |
| January 19th, 1942 (January 19 1942) | Event | World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma. | |
| January 19th, 1941 (January 19 1941) | Event | World War II: British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea. | |
| January 19th, 1937 (January 19 1937) | Event | Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. | |
| January 19th, 1935 (January 19 1935) | Event | Coopers Inc. sells the world s first briefs. | |
| January 19th, 1920 (January 19 1920) | Event | The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations. | |
| January 19th, 1918 (January 19 1918) | Event | Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the Red Guards and the White Guard. | |
| January 19th, 1917 (January 19 1917) | Event | German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance against the United States. | |
| January 19th, 1917 (January 19 1917) | Event | Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London. | |
| January 19th, 1915 (January 19 1915) | Event | Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. | |
| January 19th, 1915 (January 19 1915) | Event | 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. | |
| January 19th, 1899 (January 19 1899) | Event | Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. | |
| January 19th, 1893 (January 19 1893) | Event | Henrik Ibsen s play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin. | Henrik Ibsen Quotes |
| January 19th, 1883 (January 19 1883) | Event | The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. | |
| January 19th, 1871 (January 19 1871) | Event | Franco-Prussian War: Battle of St. Quentin is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory. | |
| January 19th, 1862 (January 19 1862) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Mill SpringsThe Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict. | |
| January 19th, 1853 (January 19 1853) | Event | Giuseppe Verdi s opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome. | |
| January 19th, 1840 (January 19 1840) | Event | Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States. | |
| January 19th, 1839 (January 19 1839) | Event | The British East India Company captures Aden. | |
| January 19th, 1829 (January 19 1829) | Event | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe s Faust Part 1 premieres. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| January 19th, 1817 (January 19 1817) | Event | An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General Jose de San Martin, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru. | Jose de San Martin Quotes |
| January 19th, 1812 (January 19 1812) | Event | 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. | Duke Ellington Quotes |
| January 19th, 1806 (January 19 1806) | Event | The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope. | |
| January 19th, 1795 (January 19 1795) | Event | Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands. End of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. | |
| January 19th, 1788 (January 19 1788) | Event | Second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. | |
| January 19th, 1764 (January 19 1764) | Event | John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. | |
| January 19th, 1607 (January 19 1607) | Event | San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is currently the oldest church in the Philippines | |
| January 19th, 1520 (January 19 1520) | Event | Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund. | |
| January 19th, 1511 (January 19 1511) | Event | Mirandola surrenders to the French. | |
| January 19th, 1419 (January 19 1419) | Event | Hundred Years War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy. | |
