What happened on January 19? There are more than 301 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About January 19
January 19 is the 19th day of the year 2024. There are 347 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday. This day falls under the 3rd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Christine, North Dakota 58015 sunrise occured at 08:02 AM and sunset occured at 05:13 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Capricorn. The modern birthstone for this month is Garnet while the mystical birthstone is Emerald.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 22 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (February 10, 2024).
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Historical Events For January 19
- 379Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
- 1419Hundred Years’ War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.
- 1511Mirandola surrenders to the French.
- 1520Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
- 1607San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
- 1661Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
- 1764John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
- 1788The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
- 1795The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
- 1806The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
- 1812Peninsular 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.
- 1817An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
- 1829Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.
- 1839The British East India Company captures Aden.
- 1840Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
- 1853Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
- 1861American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
- 1862American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
- 1871Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
- 1883The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
- 1893Henrik Ibsen’s play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
- 1899Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
- 1915Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
- 1915World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns 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.
- 1917Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
- 1920The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
- 1935Coopers Inc. sells the world’s first briefs.
- 1937Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
- 1942World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma
- 1945World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź ghetto. Out more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
- 1946General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
- 1949Cuba recognizes Israel.
- 195368% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
- 1960Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
- 1969Student 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.
- 1975An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
- 1977President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. “Tokyo Rose”).
- 1977Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in the Bahamas.
- 1978The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW’s plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.
- 1981Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
- 1983Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
- 1983The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
- 1986The first computer virus released into the wild is a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
- 1991Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
- 1993Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
- 1996The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
- 1997Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
- 1999British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
- 2006A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
- 2006The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
- 2007Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper’s office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast.
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Who Were Born On January 19?
- 399Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)
- 1544King Francis II of France (d. 1560)
- 1736James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)
- 1739Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808)
- 1752James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820)
- 1757Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)
- 1798Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857)
- 1807Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
- 1808Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
- 1809Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)
- 1813Sir Henry Bessemer, English inventor (d. 1898)
- 1832Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (d. 1875)
- 1833Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d. 1872)
- 1839Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
- 1848John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904)
- 1848Matthew Webb, English swimmer/diver (d. 1883)
- 1851Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
- 1863Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d. 1941)
- 1871Dame Gruev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1906)
- 1874Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (d. 1922)
- 1876Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet (d. 1899)
- 1876Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (d. 1943)
- 1878Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934)
- 1879Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (d. 1925)
- 1887Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943)
- 1889Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1943)
- 1892Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician (d. 1964)
- 1893Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian classical pianist (d. 1986)
- 1905Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (d. 1991)
- 1908Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (d. 1971)
- 1909Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
- 1911Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (d. 2009)
- 1912Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- 1913Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
- 1914Bob Gerard, British racing driver (d. 1990)
- 1917John Raitt, American singer and actor (d. 2005)
- 1918John H. Johnson, American publisher (d. 2005)
- 1920Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
- 1921Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
- 1921William ‘Billy Batts’Devino, American gangster (d. 1970)
- 1922Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1923Jean Stapleton, American actress
- 1923Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
- 1924Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
- 1924Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1925Nina Bawden, English author
- 1926Fritz Weaver, American actor
- 1930Tippi Hedren, American actress
- 1931Robert MacNeil, Canadian journalist
- 1932Richard Lester, British director
- 1932Russ Hamilton, British singer (d. 2008)
- 1933George Coyne, American theologian
- 1934Lloyd Robertson, Canadian journalist
- 1935Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer (d. 1978)
- 1935Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor
- 1936Ziaur Rahman, Seventh President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
- 1937Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter
- 1937John Lions, Australian computer scientist (d. 1998)
- 1939Phil Everly, American musician
- 1940Mike Reid, English comedian (d. 2007)
- 1940Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
- 1941Colin Gunton, British theologian (d. 2003)
- 1941Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler
- 1941Tony Anholt, British actor (d. 2002)
- 1942Michael Crawford, British singer and actor
- 1942Thom Mayne, American Architect
- 1943Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
- 1943Petchara Chaowarat, Thai film actress
- 1943Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
- 1944Dan Reeves, American football coach
- 1944Laurie London, English singer
- 1944Peter Lynch, American investor
- 1944Shelley Fabares, American actress
- 1945Trevor Williams, English Bass Guitarist
- 1946Dolly Parton, American singer and actress
- 1946Julian Barnes, English author
- 1947Ann Compton, American news reporter
- 1947Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur
- 1947Rod Evans, British musician (Deep Purple)
- 1948Frank McKenna, Canadian politician
- 1949Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player
- 1949Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d. 2003)
- 1950Grant Nordman, Canadian politician
- 1950Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor
- 1953Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
- 1953Linda Hayden, English actress
- 1953Richard Legendre, Canadian politician
- 1954Cindy Sherman, American photographer
- 1954Katey Sagal, American actress
- 1954Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director
- 1955Paul Rodriguez, Mexican/American actor and comedian
- 1955Simon Rattle, English conductor
- 1956Carman Licciardello, American singer
- 1957Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician
- 1957Ottis Anderson, former American football player
- 1959Jeff Pilson, American bass guitarist
- 1961William Ragsdale, American actor
- 1962Chris Sabo, American baseball player
- 1962Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
- 1962Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball coach
- 1963Caron Wheeler, British singer (Soul II Soul)
- 1963Martin Bashir, Pakistani-born reporter
- 1963Michael Adams, American basketball player
- 1964Janine Antoni, Bahamian artist
- 1964Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer
- 1966Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player
- 1966Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
- 1966Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
- 1966Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967Javier Cámara, Spanish actor
- 1968Whitfield Crane, American musician (Ugly Kid Joe)
- 1969Casey Sherman, American author
- 1969Edwidge Danticat, Haitian/American author
- 1969Junior Seau, American football player
- 1969Luc Longley, Australian basketball player
- 1969Predrag Mijatović, Yugoslavian footballer
- 1969Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
- 1970Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete
- 1970Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian
- 1971John Wozniak, American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground)
- 1971Shawn Wayans, American actor
- 1972Angham, Egyptian singer, record producer and actress
- 1972Drea de Matteo, American actress
- 1972Elena Kaliská, Slovak slalom canoer
- 1972Joana Benedek, Mexican actress
- 1972Jon Fisher, American entrepreneur
- 1972Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
- 1972Ron Killings, American professional wrestler
- 1972Troy Wilson, Australian racing driver and AFL player
- 1973Aaron Yonda, YouTube celebrity
- 1973Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist
- 1973Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer
- 1974Frank Caliendo, American comedian
- 1974Ian Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
- 1975Noah Georgeson, American musician
- 1976Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer
- 1976Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver
- 1977Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor
- 1977Cocco, Japanese singer
- 1977Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer
- 1977Nicole, Chilean singer
- 1979Josu Sarriegi, Spanish/Basque footballer
- 1979Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
- 1979Wiley, English rapper
- 1980Jenson Button, English Formula One driver
- 1980Kotoko, Japanese singer
- 1980Luke Macfarlane, Canadian actor
- 1981Asier Del Horno, Spanish footballer
- 1981Bitsie Tulloch, American actress
- 1981Dimosthenis Manousakis, Greek footballer
- 1981Kerby Raymundo, Filipino basketball player
- 1981Lucho González, Argentine footballer
- 1982Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress
- 1982Jodie Sweetin, American actress
- 1982Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
- 1983Hikaru Utada, American/Japanese singer and songwriter
- 1984Fabio Catacchini, Italian footballer
- 1984Jimmy Kebe, Malian footballer
- 1984Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver
- 1984Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
- 1985Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
- 1985Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine racing driver
- 1985Jake Allen, American football player
- 1985Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
- 1986Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer
- 1986Loren Galler-Rabinowitz, American ice dancer
- 1987Angus Monfries, Australian league footballer
- 1987Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
- 1988JaVale McGee, American Basketball Player
- 1991Erin Sanders, American actress
- 1992Logan Lerman, American actor
- 1992Mac Miller, American rapper
- 1992Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
- 1993Gus Lewis, English actor
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Who Died On January 19?
- 639Dagobert I, King of the Franks (b. c. 603)
- 1526Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
- 1547Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)
- 1576Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (b. 1494)
- 1661Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed) (b. 1599)
- 1729William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
- 1757Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1674)
- 1766Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-born French architect and painter (b. 1695)
- 1785Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
- 1833Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
- 1847Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer (assassinated) (b. 1799)
- 1851Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (b. 1805)
- 1865Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
- 1869Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)
- 1874August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
- 1878Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
- 1905Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
- 1906Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine historian and politician, president of the country (b. 1821)
- 1915Thomas Herbst, German painter (b. 1848)
- 1925Queen Maria Sophia of Two Sicilies (b.1841)
- 1927Charlotte of Belgium (b. 1840)
- 1929Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
- 1939Branislav Nušić, Serbian novelist, playwright, satirist, essayist and journalist (b. 1864)
- 1939Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1948Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
- 1954Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1885)
- 1957József Dudás, Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (b. 1912)
- 1964Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
- 1965Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter and Olympic medalist (b. 1905)
- 1968Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
- 1969Jan Palach, Czech student and political activist (suicide) (b. 1948)
- 1971Harry Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
- 1972Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
- 1973Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (b. 1903)
- 1975Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. 1889)
- 1976Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886)
- 1980William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1898)
- 1982Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
- 1983Ham the Chimp, First hominid launched into outer space (b. 1956)
- 1984Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
- 1987Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist (b. 1927)
- 1990Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian religious leader (b. 1931)
- 1990Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
- 1990Semprini, English musician (b. 1908)
- 1991John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
- 1991Marcel Chaput, French-Canadian politician (b. 1918)
- 1995Gene MacLellan, Canadian composer and singer (b. 1938)
- 1996Don Simpson, American film producer (b. 1943)
- 1997Adriana Caselotti, American actress (b. 1916)
- 1997James Dickey, American writer (b. 1923)
- 1998Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
- 1999Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby union footballer (b. 1967)
- 2000Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
- 2000Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress and inventor (b. 1913)
- 2001Dario Vittori, Argentine actor (b. 1921)
- 2003Françoise Giroud, French writer and journalist (b. 1916)
- 2004David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
- 2004Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (suicide) (b. 1917)
- 2005Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (b. 1976)
- 2005Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
- 2005K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
- 2006Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2006Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1933)
- 2006Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1921)
- 2006Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
- 2007Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1940)
- 2007Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954)
- 2007Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer (b. 1969)
- 2007Scott “Bam Bam” Bigelow, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
- 2008Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster for CBC (b. 1936)
- 2008John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
- 2008Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
- 2010Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby commentator (b. 1923)
- 2010Jennifer Lyon, American reality television personality (Survivor) (b. 1972)
- 2011Ernest McCulloch, stem cell research pioneer (b. 1926)
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