January 19 ::: Project ETERNITY

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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 Bogesund

1764 - 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 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.

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 premieres (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.