Notable Historical Events on January 19th
January 19th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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. |
1547 |
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, executed in the Tower of London for treason |
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) |
1785 |
First manned balloon flight in Ireland |
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 |
1853 |
Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," premieres in Rome |
1861 |
Misssissippi troops take Fort Massachusetts and Ship Island (US Civil War) |
1861 |
Georgia secedes from the Union (US Civil War) |
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. |
1920 |
Alexandre Millerand forms French government |
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 government 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 |
General Motors begins 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 |
Uprising in Warsaw ghetto |
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 |
1968 |
Terence O'Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister, calls for "a new endeavour by organisations in Northern Ireland to cross denominational barriers and advance the cause of better community relations" |
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' Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Association |
1972 |
Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, & Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame |
1974 |
Belgium government 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 |
US President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) |
1977 |
World's largest crowd gathering - the Hindu Kumbh Mela in India attracts a then record 15 million people |
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-Oklahoma, 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 |
California 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 |
President 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. |
2002 |
"Tuck Rule Game", with less than two minutes to play in the AFC Divisional Playoff Game, the New England Patriots trailed the Oakland Raiders, 13-10, in a game played mostly under a driving snowstorm, when a Tom Brady fumble was instead ruled an incomplete pass because of the "tuck rule". The Patriots would win 16-13 in overtime and go on to win the Super Bowl |
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. |
2012 |
FBI shuts down Megaupload.com for alleged copyright infringement, hacker group Anonymous responds by attacking government and entertainment industry websites |
2013 |
4 climbers are killed by an avalanche in Glen Coe, Scotland |
2013 |
Calcium deposits are discovered on Mars by NASA's Curiosity Rover |
2013 |
The 2012-2013 NHL season begins after a 119-day lockout |
2013 |
Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all seven of his Tour de France victories |
2014 |
Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks win their playoff matches to reach Super Bowl XLVIII |
2016 |
Sarah Palin Jumps Into 2016 Race, Endorses Donald Trump |
2016 |
ISIS confirms death of 'Jihadi John' |
2017 |
Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, Ivan Rodriguez elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
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