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January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 346 days remaining until the end of the year (347 in leap years).

Events

• 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.
• 1511 – Mirandola surrenders to the French.
• 1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
• 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
• 1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
• 1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
• 1795 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
• 1806 – The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
• 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.
• 1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
• 1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.
• 1839 – The 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 receives its premiere performance in Rome.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
• 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of St. Quentin is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
• 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
• 1893 – Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
• 1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
• 1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
• 1915 – World 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.
• 1917 – German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance against the United States.
• 1917 – Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
• 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. sells the world's first briefs.
• 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma
• 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź ghetto. Out more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
• 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
• 1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel.
• 1953 – 68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
• 1969 – 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.
• 1975 – An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
• 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
• 1977 – Snow 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.
• 1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.
• 1981 – Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
• 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
• 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
• 1991 – Gulf War: SCUD attack from Iraq causes 15 injuries in Israel.
• 1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
• 1996 – The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
• 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.
• 1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
• 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.
• 2007 – Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast.

Births

• 399 – Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)
• 1544 – King Francis II of France (d. 1560)
• 1736 – James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)
• 1739 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808)
• 1752 – James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820)
• 1757 – Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)
• 1807 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
• 1808 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
• 1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)
• 1813 – Sir Henry Bessemer, English inventor (d. 1898)
• 1832 – Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (d. 1875)
• 1833 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d. 1872)
• 1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
• 1848 – John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904)
• 1848 – Matthew Webb, English swimmer/diver (d. 1883)
• 1851 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
• 1863 – Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d. 1941)
• 1876 – Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet (d. 1899)
• 1878 – Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934)
• 1879 – Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (d. 1925)
• 1887 – Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943)
• 1892 – Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician (d. 1964)
• 1905 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (d. 1991)
• 1908 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (d. 1971)
• 1909 – Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (d. 2009)
• 1912 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
• 1913 – "Minnesota Fats", American billiards player (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Bob Gerard, British racing driver (d. 1990)
• 1917 – John Raitt, American singer and actor (d. 2005)
• 1918 – John H. Johnson, American publisher (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
• 1921 – ‘Billy Batts’ Devino, American gangster (d. 1970)
• 1921 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
• 1922 – Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Jean Stapleton, American actress
• 1924 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1924 – Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Nina Bawden, English author
• 1926 – Fritz Weaver, American actor
• 1930 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
• 1931 – Robert MacNeil, Canadian journalist
• 1932 – Richard Lester, British director
• 1932 – Russ Hamilton, British singer (d. 2008)
• 1933 – George Coyne, American theologian
• 1934 – Lloyd Robertson, Canadian journalist
• 1935 – Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor
• 1935 – Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer (d. 1978)
• 1936 – Ziaur Rahman, Eighth President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
• 1937 – Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1939 – Phil Everly, American musician
• 1940 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
• 1940 – Mike Reid, English comedian (d. 2007)
• 1941 – Tony Anholt, British actor (d. 2002)
• 1941 – Colin Gunton, British theologian (d. 2003)
• 1941 – Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler
• 1942 – Michael Crawford, British singer and actor
• 1942 – Thom Mayne, American Architect
• 1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
• 1943 – Petchara Chaowarat, Thai film actress
• 1943 – Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
• 1944 – Shelley Fabares, American actress
• 1944 – Laurie London, English singer
• 1944 – Peter Lynch, American investor
• 1944 – Dan Reeves, American football coach
• 1945 – Trevor Williams, English Bass Guitarist
• 1946 – Julian Barnes, English author
• 1946 – Dolly Parton, American singer and actress
• 1947 – Ann Compton, American news reporter
• 1947 – Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur
• 1947 – Rod Evans, British musician (Deep Purple)
• 1948 – Frank McKenna, Canadian politician
• 1949 – Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d. 2003)
• 1949 – Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player
• 1950 – Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor
• 1950 – Grant Nordman, Canadian politician
• 1951 – Dewey Bunnell, American singer and songwriter (America)
• 1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
• 1953 – Linda Hayden, English actress
• 1953 – Richard Legendre, Canadian politician
• 1954 – Katey Sagal, American actress
• 1954 – Cindy Sherman, American photographer
• 1954 – Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director
• 1955 – Simon Rattle, English conductor
• 1955 – Paul Rodriguez, Mexican/American actor and comedian
• 1956 – Carman Licciardello, American singer
• 1957 – Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician
• 1957 – Ottis Anderson, former American football player
• 1961 – William Ragsdale, American actor
• 1962 – Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
• 1962 – Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball coach
• 1963 – Michael Adams, American basketball player
• 1963 – Martin Bashir, Pakistani-born reporter
• 1963 – Caron Wheeler, British singer (Soul II Soul)
• 1964 – Janine Antoni, Bahamian artist
• 1964 – Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer
• 1966 – Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player
• 1966 – Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
• 1966 – Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
• 1967 – Javier Cámara, Spanish actor
• 1968 – Whitfield Crane, American musician (Ugly Kid Joe)
• 1969 – Edwidge Danticat, Haitian/American author
• 1969 – Luc Longley, Australian basketball player
• 1969 – Predrag Mijatović, Yugoslavian footballer
• 1969 – Junior Seau, American football player
• 1969 – Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
• 1970 – Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete
• 1970 – Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian
• 1971 – Shawn Wayans, American actor
• 1971 – John Wozniak, American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground)
• 1972 – Joana Benedek, Mexican actress
• 1972 – Elena Kaliská, Slovak slalom canoer
• 1972 – Ron Killings, American professional wrestler
• 1972 – Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
• 1972 – Troy Wilson, Australian racing driver and AFL player
• 1972 – Angham, Egyptian singer, record producer and actress
• 1972 – Drea de Matteo, American actress
• 1973 – Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist
• 1973 – Aaron Yonda, YouTube celebrity
• 1974 – Frank Caliendo, American comedian
• 1974 – Ian Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 – Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
• 1975 – Noah Georgeson, American musician
• 1976 – Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer
• 1976 – Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver
• 1977 – Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor
• 1977 – Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer
• 1977 – Nicole, Chilean singer
• 1977 – Cocco, Japanese singer
• 1979 – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
• 1979 – Josu Sarriegi, Spanish/Basque footballer
• 1979 – Wiley, English rapper
• 1980 – Luke Macfarlane, Canadian actor
• 1980 – Jenson Button, English Formula One driver
• 1980 – Kotoko, Japanese singer
• 1981 – Asier Del Horno, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Lucho González, Argentine footballer
• 1981 – Dimosthenis Manousakis, Greek footballer
• 1982 – Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress
• 1982 – Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
• 1982 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress
• 1983 – Hikaru Utada, American/Japanese singer and songwriter
• 1984 – Felicity Jones, English actress
• 1984 – Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver
• 1984 – Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
• 1985 – Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine racing driver
• 1985 – Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
• 1986 – Loren Galler-Rabinowitz, American ice dancer
• 1987 – Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
• 1991 – Erin Sanders, American actress
• 1992 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
• 1992 – Logan Lerman, American actor
• 1993 – Gus Lewis, English actor

Deaths

• 639 – Dagobert I, King of the Franks (b. c. 603)
• 1526 – Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
• 1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)
• 1576 – Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (b. 1494)
• 1661 – Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed) (b. 1599)
• 1729 – William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
• 1757 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1674)
• 1766 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-born French architect and painter (b. 1695)
• 1785 – Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
• 1833 – Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
• 1847 – Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer (assassinated) (b. 1799)
• 1851 – Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (b. 1805)
• 1865 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
• 1869 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)
• 1874 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
• 1878 – Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
• 1905 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1906 – Bartolome Mitre, Argentine historian and politician, president of the country (b. 1821)
• 1925 – Queen Maria Sophia of Two Sicilies (b.1841)
• 1927 – Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840)
• 1929 – Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
• 1939 – Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1948 – Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
• 1954 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1885)
• 1957 – József Dudás, Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (b. 1912)
• 1964 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
• 1965 – Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter and Olympic medalist (b. 1905)
• 1968 – Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
• 1969 – Jan Palach, Czech student and political activist (suicide) (b. 1948)
• 1971 – Harry Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
• 1973 – Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (b. 1903)
• 1975 – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. 1889)
• 1976 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886)
• 1980 – William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1898)
• 1982 – Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
• 1983 – Ham the Chimp, First hominid launched into outer space (b. 1956)
• 1984 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
• 1990 – Rajneesh, Indian religious leader (b. 1931)
• 1990 – Semprini, English musician (b. 1908)
• 1990 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
• 1991 – John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
• 1991 – Marcel Chaput, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
• 1995 – Gene MacLellan, Canadian composer and singer (b. 1938)
• 1996 – Don Simpson, American film producer (b. 1943)
• 1997 – James Dickey, American writer (b. 1923)
• 1997 – Adriana Caselotti, American actress (b. 1916)
• 1998 – Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
• 1999 – Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby union footballer (b. 1967)
• 2000 – Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
• 2000 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress and inventor (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Dario Vittori, Argentine actor (b. 1921)
• 2003 – Françoise Giroud, French writer and journalist (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (suicide) (b. 1917)
• 2004 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
• 2005 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (b. 1976)
• 2005 – Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
• 2005 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
• 2006 – Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1933)
• 2006 – Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
• 2007 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954)
• 2007 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer (b. 1969)
• 2008 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
• 2008 – John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
• 2008 – Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster for CBC (b. 1936)
• 2010 – Bill McLaren Scottish rugby commentator (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Jennifer Lyon American reality television personality (Survivor) (b. 1972)

Holidays and observances

• Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe (commemorated by the Poe Toaster at his grave in Baltimore)
• Christian Feast Day
  • Henry of Uppsala
  • Maris, Martha, Abachum and Audifax
  • Mark of Ephesus
  • Pontianus.
  • Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester
  • January 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Confederate Heroes Day (Texas)
• Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty), first day of the 17^th month of the Bahá'í calendar (Bahá'í Faith)
• Founders Day (Kappa Alpha Order Convivium)
• Theophany / Epiphany (Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy, who follow the Julian Calendar)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. ~ Frank Herbert in Dune

• selected by Kalki

2005

My experience of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them, or indisposed me to serve them; nor in spite of failures, which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge; or of the present aspect of affairs; do I despair of the future.
The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope. ~ Robert E. Lee

• selected by Kalki

2006

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~ Edgar Allan Poe (born 19 January 1809)

• proposed by Kalki

2007

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. ~ Art Buchwald (recent death)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw — I could not bring
My passions from a common spring —
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow — I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov'd— I lov'd alone.
~ Edgar Allan Poe ~

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Thou wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart
From its present pathway part not!
Being everything which now thou art,
Be nothing which thou art not.
So with the world thy gentle ways,
Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love — a simple duty.
~ Edgar Allan Poe ~

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a stupid action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? ~ Edgar Allan Poe

• 3 InvisibleSun 07:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 ~ Kalki 21:54, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 18:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

• 3 InvisibleSun 07:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 ~ Kalki 21:54, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 18:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it. ~ Robert E. Lee

• Originally proposed for 1 September with a ranking of 3 by MosheZadka (Talk) 13:18, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 09:19, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Zarbon 18:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:00, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule —
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE — out of TIME.
~ Edgar Allan Poe ~

• 3 Kalki 00:21, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:44, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

What a cruel thing is war; to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbours, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world! ~ Robert E. Lee

• 3 Kalki 00:21, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:44, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

I cannot consent to place the control of others one who cannot control himself. ~ Robert E. Lee

• 3 Kalki 00:21, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Zarbon 04:44, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less. ~ Robert E. Lee

• 4 Kalki 00:21, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 04:44, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on January 19.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 2007
  • Street Fighter II for the Wii Virtual Console in Europe and Australia

• 2006
  • Metroid Prime Pinball for the Nintendo DS in Japan
  • NBA Live 2006 for the Xbox 360 in Japan
  • LostMagic for the Nintendo DS in Japan
  • Iron Feather for the Nintendo DS in Japan
  • Resident Evil for the Nintendo DS in Japan

• 2001
  • The Legend of Dragoon for the PlayStation in Europe

From Familypedia

January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 346 days remaining until the end of the year (347 in leap years).

Events

• 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.
• 1511 - Mirandola surrenders to the French.
• 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
• 1764 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
• 1788 - Second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
• 1795 - Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands. End of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
• 1806 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
• 1812 - Peninsular War: After a ten day siege Arthur Wellesley, ordered British soldiers of the Light and third divisions storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
• 1817 - An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crossed the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
• 1829 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 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.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs - The Confederate States of America suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
• 1871 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of St. Quentin is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
• 1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle.
• 1893 - Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin.
• 1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
• 1915 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
• 1915 - 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.
• 1917 - German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance against the United States.
• 1917 - Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
• 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, 25 seconds.
• 1941 - World War II: British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea.
• 1942 - World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
• 1945 - World War II: Soviet forces liberate ghetto of Łódź. Out of 230,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived Nazi occupation.
• 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.
• 1966 - Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India.
• 1969 - Student Jan Palach died 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.
• 1971 - Revival of No premieres at 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 - Triple J begins broadcasting in Sydney, Australia.
• 1977 - President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
• 1977 - Snow falls in Miami. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas.
• 1978 - The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America will continue until 2003.
• 1981 - Iran Hostage Crisis: 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.
• 1991 - The Party of the Alliance of Youth is founded in Luanda, Angola.
• 1992 - Decree time is restored in Russia after its previous abolition in March 1991.
• 1993 - IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, 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.
• 2006 - A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes‎ in Hungary.
• 2006 - The New Horizons probe was launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
• 2006 - Jet Airways announces its purchase of Air Sahara, creating the largest domestic airline in India.

Births

• 399 - Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)
• 1544 - King Francis II of France (d. 1560)
• 1736 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)
• 1739 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808)
• 1757 - Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)
• 1807 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
• 1808 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
• 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)
• 1813 - Sir Henry Bessemer, English inventor (d. 1898)
• 1832 - Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (d. 1875)
• 1833 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d. 1872)
• 1839 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
• 1848 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904)
• 1851 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
• 1863 - Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d. 1941)
• 1878 - Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934
• 1879 - Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (d. 1925)
• 1887 - Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943)
• 1892 - Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician (d. 1964)
• 1905 - Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (d. 1991)
• 1908 - Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (d. 1971)
• 1909 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
• 1912 - Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1913 - "Minnesota Fats", American billiards player (d. 1996)
• 1913 - Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
• 1914 - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (d. 1990)
• 1917 - John Raitt, American singer and actor (d. 2005)
• 1918 - John H. Johnson, American publisher (d. 2005)
• 1920 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
• 1921 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
• 1921 - "Billy Batts" Devino, American gangster (d. 1970)
• 1922 - Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1923 - Jean Stapleton, American actress
• 1923 - Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
• 1924 - Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1924 - Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
• 1926 - Fritz Weaver, American actor
• 1930 - Tippi Hedren, American actress
• 1931 - Robert MacNeil, Canadian journalist
• 1932 - Richard Lester, British director
• 1936 - Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
• 1939 - Phil Everly, American musician
• 1940 - Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
• 1941 - Colin Gunton, British theologian (d. 2003)
• 1941 - Tony Anholt, British actor
• 1942 - Michael Crawford, British singer and actor
• 1943 - Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
• 1943 - Petchara Chaowarat, Thai film actress
• 1943 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
• 1944 - Shelley Fabares, American actress
• 1944 - Peter Lynch, American investor
• 1944 - Dan Reeves, American football coach
• 1944 - Laurie London, English singer
• 1946 - Julian Barnes, English author
• 1946 - Dolly Parton, American singer and actress
• 1947 - Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur
• 1947 - Rod Evans, British musician (Deep Purple)
• 1947 - Ann Compton, American news reporter
• 1948 - Frank McKenna, Canadian politician
• 1949 - Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d. 2003)
• 1949 - Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player
• 1950 - Grant Nordman, Canadian politician
• 1953 - Desi Arnaz, American actor
• 1953 - Richard Legendre, Canadian politician
• 1954 - Katey Sagal, American actress
• 1954 - Ted DiBiase, American professional wrestler
• 1954 - Cindy Sherman, American artist
• 1954 - Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director
• 1955 - Simon Rattle, English conductor
• 1955 - Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-born actor and comedian
• 1956 - Carman Licciardello, American Christian singer
• 1957 - Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician
• 1962 - Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
• 1963 - Michael Adams, American basketball player
• 1963 - Caron Wheeler, British singer (Soul II Soul)
• 1964 - Janine Antoni, Bahamian artist
• 1964 - Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer
• 1966 - Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player
• 1966 - Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
• 1966 - Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
• 1966 - Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 - Javier Cámara, Spanish actor
• 1969 - Junior Seau, American football player
• 1969 - Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
• 1970 - Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian
• 1971 - Shawn Wayans, American actor and producer
• 1971 - John Wozniak, American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground)
• 1972 - Joana Benedek, Mexican actress
• 1972 - Drea de Matteo, American actress
• 1972 - Ron Killings, American professional wrestler
• 1972 - Princess Kalina of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
• 1972 - Elena Kaliská, Slovak slalom canoer
• 1972 - Troy Wilson, Australian racing driver and AFL player
• 1973 - Antero Manninen, Finnish Cellist
• 1973 - Karen Lancaume, French actress (d. 2005)
• 1974 - Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
• 1974 - Ian Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 - Frank Caliendo, American comedian
• 1976 - Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver
• 1977 - Lauren, Cameroonian footballer
• 1977 - Nicole, Chilean singer
• 1979 - Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
• 1979 - Wiley, English Rapper (Grime)
• 1980 - Jenson Button, English Formula One driver
• 1981 - Asier Del Horno, Spanish footballer
• 1981 - Lucho González, Argentine footballer
• 1982 - Jodie Sweetin, American child actress
• 1982 - Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
• 1982 - Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress
• 1983 - Utada Hikaru, American-born Japanese singer and songwriter
• 1984 - Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
• 1984 - Euan Blair, Eldest son of Tony Blair
• 1984 - Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver
• 1985 - Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
• 1985 - Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine racing driver
• 1991 - Erin Sanders, American child actress

Deaths

• 639 - Dagobert I, King of the Franks
• 1526 - Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
• 1547 - Henry Howard, English poet (b. 1517)
• 1576 - Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (b. 1494)
• 1661 - Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed)
• 1729 - William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
• 1757 - Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1674)
• 1766 - Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian-born French architect and painter (b. 1695)
• 1785 - Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
• 1833 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
• 1847 - Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer (assassinated)
• 1851 - Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (b. 1805)
• 1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
• 1869 - Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)
• 1874 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
• 1878 - Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
• 1905 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1929 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
• 1939 - Cliff Heathcote, baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1948 - Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
• 1954 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (b. 1885)
• 1964 - Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
• 1968 - Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
• 1969 - Jan Palach, Czech student and political activist (suicide) (b. 1948)
• 1971 - Harry Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
• 1972 - Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
• 1973 - Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (b. 1903)
• 1975 - Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. 1889)
• 1980 - William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1898)
• 1982 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
• 1984 - Max Bentley, National Hockey League player (b. 1920)
• 1990 - Rajneesh, Indian religious leader (b. 1931)
• 1990 - Semprini, English musician (b. 1908)
• 1990 - Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
• 1991 - John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
• 1991 - Marcel Chaput, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
• 1996 - Don Simpson, American film producer (b. 1943)
• 1997 - James Dickey, American writer (b. 1923)
• 1997 - Adriana Caselotti, American actress (b 1916)
• 1998 - Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
• 1999 - Ivan Francescato, Italian Rugby Union star (b. 1967)
• 2000 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
• 2000 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress (b. 1913)
• 2001 - Dario Vittori, Argentinean actor (b. 1921)
• 2003 - Françoise Giroud, French writer and journalist (b. 1916)
• 2004 - Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (suicide) (b. 1917)
• 2004 - David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
• 2005 - Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
• 2005 - K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
• 2006 - Wilson Pickett, soul singer (b. 1941)
• 2006 - Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1933)
• 2006 - Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2006 - Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1921)
• 2007 - Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
• 2007 - Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer (b. 1969)
• 2007 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954)
• 2007 - Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1940)
• 2007 - James Alenson, Lincoln-Sudbury student, stabbed to death by John Odgren (b. 1992)

Holidays and observances

• Confederate Heroes Day in Texas.
• The Poe Toaster commemorates the death of Edgar Allan Poe at his grave in Baltimore.

Religious feasts

• Maris^[1][2]
• Canute IV of Denmark^[1]
• Henry of Uppsala^[1]
• Wulfstan^[1]
• Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy — Julian Calendar Theophany (Epiphany).
• St. Mark of Ephesus feast day .
• Bahá'í Faith — Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty) — First day of the 17th month of the Bahá'í Calendar.
• January 19

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada