On this day in History - Jan. 19

• 0973- Pope Benedictus VI elected.
• 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England which makes Normandy a part of England.
• 1493 - Treaty of Barcelona signed, France cedes Roussillon and Cerdagne to Spain.
• 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
• 1736 - James Watt, was born, builder of steam engines; the watt, a unit of power, was named after him. [d. 19 Aug 1819].
• 1764- John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
• 1793 -French King Louis XVI is sentenced to death for treason.
• 1798 - Auguste Comte, was born, French philosopher.
• 1806 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
• 1807 - Robert E. Lee was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia [d.1819]; he was one of the greatest of the Confederate generals in the American Civil War (1861-65).
• 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston [d. 1849]. American poet, short-story writer, and critic.
• 1809 - O Exército francês de Soult vence em La Coruña os ingleses de Wellesley, que se vêem obrigados a recuar.
• 1811 - Los paraguayos derrotan al Ejército porteño argentino del general Belgrano en la batalla de Paraguarí.
• 1813 - Sir Henry Bessemer, was born in Charlton, Hertfordshire, UK; English inventor and engineer who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively (1856), leading to the development of the Bessemer converter .
• 1826 - Capitulan las tropas españolas que durante nueve años se mantuvieron en la isla de Chiloé, situada en la parte meridional de Chile.
• 1839 - British East India Company captures Aden.
• 1839 - Paul Cézanne, was born, painter [d. 1906] .
• 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.
• 1861 - Georgia becomes 5th state to secede.
• 1880 - El Congreso de los Diputados español vota la abolición de la esclavitud en Cuba.1881 - En plena guerra del Pacífico, el Ejército chileno entra en Lima tras dos días de cruentos combates en los alrededores de la capital peruana.
• 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.
• 1906 -Bartolomé Mitre, fallecimiento de, poeta, historiador, político , militar, periodista y traductor (presidente de Argentina).
• 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.
• 1915 - The electric neon sign was patented in the United States by George Claude of Paris, France.
• 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.
• 1920 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, was born, Peruvian diplomat, United Nations Secretary General (1982-1991)
• 1921 - Patricia Highsmith, was born, US / Swiss writer (Strangers on a Train) [d. 1995]
• 1921 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union, que sólo duró un año.
• 1923 - Jean Stapleton, was born, American actress (Damn Yankees, Klute, All in the Family).
• 1923 - O poeta Eugénio de Andrade (pseudónimo literário de José Fontinhas) nasceu neste dia, na Póvoa da Atalaia, concelho do Fundão, na Beira Baixa .
• 1926 - Born this day, Fritz Weaver, actor, (Holocaust, Marathon Man, Black Sunday).
• 1927 -British government decides to send troops to China.
• 1931 - Born this day, Robert [Robin] MacNeil, Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist.
• 1932 - Richard Lester, was born, movie director (Hard Day's Night, Help!, Petulia).
• 1936 -Ursula Andress, was born in Switzerland, actress (She).
• 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.
• 1937- Alberto de Oliveira, falecimento de, poeta brasileiro .
• 1941 - World War II: East AfricaKassala, on the Sudan-Eritrean border, is retaken by the British as Major General William Platt begins an offensive against Italian troops in Eritrea.
• 1942 - Nara Leão, nascimento de, cantora brasileira de MPB.
• 1942- World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
• 1943- Janis Joplin, singer was born [d. 1970] .
• 1943 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born .
• 1946 - Dolly Parton was born, entertainer.
• 1946 - General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
• 1947 - Manuel Machado Ruiz, poeta español nacido en Sevilla.
• 1949 - Cuba recognises Israel.
• 1949 - Robert Palmer, was born [d.2003], singer, guitarist (Emerson, Lake & Palmer).
• 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.
• 1955 -President Eisenhower okayed the first filming of a news conference for television.
• 1958 - Marechal Rondon, faleceu, sertanista brasileiro.
• 1964 - Sourou-Migan Apithy is elected president of Dahomey (renamed Benin in 1975).
• 1966 - Stefan Edberg, was born, tennis player (Wimbledon 1988, US Open 1991).
• 1966 -Indira Gandhi was 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 - John Wozniak, singer, songwriter of Marcy Playground .
• 1977 - President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka Tokyo Rose).
• 1981 -The United States and Iran signed an agreement paving the way for the release of 52 Americans held hostage for more than 14 months.
• 1982 - Elis Regina, morte de, aos 36 anos de idade; cantora brasileira, ( gaúcha) foi uma das mais importantes intérpretes da geração pós-bossa nova.
• 1983 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal, is arrested in Bolivia.
• 1983 - The Apple Lisa, their first commercial personal computer from Apple Computer, Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
• 1984 -Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km.
• 1986 - Spain recognizes Israel.
• 1991 -48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves.
• 1992 - Zhelyu Zhelev, chefe de Estado da Bulgária desde 1990, é ratificado em seu cargo nas urnas e se converte no primeiro presidente do país eleito democraticamente.
• 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 returned to Hebron for the first time in 30 years, as Israel hands over control of the West Bank city to Palestinians.
• 1997 - 54th Golden Globes: English Patient, Brenda Blethyn & Geoffrey Rush.
• 1998 -Carl Perkins, singer , songwriter, dies at 65.
• 2000 - Bettino Craxi, dies, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934) .
• 2002 - Faleceu aos 67 anos, o célebre futebolista brasileiro "Vavá", Edvaldo Izidio Neto.