On this day in History - Jan. 19

• 0399 - Pulcheria was born (d. 0453). Byzantine empress.
• 0639 - Dagobert I dies. King of the Franks
• 0973 - Pope Benedictus VI elected.
• 1200 - Dogen was born (d. 1253). Japanese Buddhist monk and philosopher.
• 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.
• 1526 - Isabella of Burgundy dies (b. 1501). Queen of Christian II of Denmark
• 1544 - King Francis II of France was born (d. 1560).
• 1547 - Henry Howard dies beheaded, because of his enmity with the Seymours, who were ruling the kingdom for the young Edward. Earl of Surrey, English writer and courtier.
• 1576 - Hans Sachs dies (b. 1494). German Meistersinger.
• 1661 - Thomas Venner dies (executed). Fifth Monarchist.
• 1729 - William Congreve dies (b. 1670). English playwright (Love for Love)
• 1736 - James Watt was born (d. 19 Aug 1819). Scotish inventor, builder of steam engines; the watt, a unit of power, was named after him.
• 1739 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder was born (d. 1808). Italian architect.
• 1764 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
• 1766 - Jean-Nicolas Servan dies (b. 1695). French architect and painter.
• 1785 - Jonathan Toup dies (b. 1713). English classical scholar and critic.
• 1793 - French King Louis XVI is sentenced to death for treason.
• 1795 - Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands. End of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
• 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.1870); he was one of
• the greatest of Confederate Generals in The American Civil War (1861-1865).
• 1808 - Lysander Spooner was born (d. 1887). American philosopher.
• 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 (d. 1898). 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.
• 1829 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.
• 1833 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold dies (b. 1791). French composer.
• 1839 - British East India Company captures Aden.
• 1839 - Paul Cézanne was born (d. 1906). French painter.
• 1840 - Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
• 1847 - Charles Bent dies assassinated. New Mexico pioneer. After killing the sheriff and a prefect, Native American Indians force their way into the house of New Mexico's first American Territorial Governor, Charles Bent and scalp him and three others.
• 1848 - John F. Stairs was born (d. 1904). Canadian businessman and statesman.
• 1851 - Jacobus Kapteyn was born (d. 1922). Dutch astronomer.
• 1851 - David Starr Jordan was born (d. 19 Sep 1931). American ichthyologist, educator and writer.
• 1851 - Esteban Echeverría dies (b. 1805). Argentine writer.
• 1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome.
• 1859 - Bernardino da Costa Lopes was born. Brazilian poet.
• 1861 - Georgia becomes 5th state to secede.
• 1862 - The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the American Civil War at the Battle of Mill Springs.
• 1863 - Werner Sombart was born (d. 1941). German sociologist.
• 1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon dies (b. 1809). French philosopher and anarchist.
• 1869 - US: Susan B. Anthony elected president of the American Equal Rights Association.
• 1869 - Carl Reichenbach dies (b. 1788). German chemist and philosopher.
• 1874 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben dies (b. 1798). German poet.
• 1878 - Henri Victor Regnault dies (b. 1810). French physicist and chemist.
• 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.
• 1887 - Alexander Woollcott was born (d. 1943). American intellectual.
• 1889 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp was born in Davos, Switzerland. Artist, she is best known for paintings, graphic designs and drafts in abstract, geometrical forms
• 1893 - Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin.
• 1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
• 1905 - Debendranath Tagore dies (b. 1817). Indian philosopher.
• 1906 - Gerhart Hauptmann play "Und Pippa tanzt!" premiers, Berlin.
• 1906 - Bartolomé Mitre dies. Argentine poet, historian and politician. President of Argentina (1962-68).
• 1909 - Hans Hotter was born (d. 2003). German bass-baritone.
• 1912 - Leonid Kantorovich was born (d. 1986). Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1912 - Armand Robin was born (d. 1961). French translator, writer/poet, anarchist.
• 1913 - Minnesota Fats was born (d. 1996). American billiards player.
• 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.
• 1915 - Isadora Duncan dance "Dionysion" premiers at the NY Met.
• 1917 - John Raitt was born (d. 2005). American singer and actor.
• 1918 - Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
• 1918 - John H. Johnson was born (d. 2005). American publisher.
• 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 (d. 1995). US / Swiss mystery writer (Strangers on a Train)
• 1921 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union, que sólo duró un año.
• 1922 - Guy Madison was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 1923 - Jean Stapleton, was born, American actress (Damn Yankees, Klute, All in the Family).
• 1923 - Markus Wolf was born. German spy.
• 1923 - Eugénio de Andrade was born (d. 13 Jun 2005). Portuguese poet / O poeta Eugénio de Andrade (pseudónimo literário de José Fontinhas) nasceu neste dia, na Póvoa da Atalaia, concelho do Fundão, na Beira Baixa.
• 1924 - Nicholas Colasanto was born (d. 1985). American actor.
• 1924 - Jean-Francois Revel was born. French author.
• 1926 - Fritz Weaver was born. Actor (Holocaust, Marathon Man, Black Sunday).
• 1927 - British government decides to send troops to China.
• 1929 - Liang Qichao dies (b. 1873). Chinese scholar.
• 1931 - Robert [Robin] MacNeil was born. Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist.
• 1931 - Tippi Hedren was born. American actress.
• 1932 - Richard Lester was born. Film director (Hard Day's Night, Help!, Petulia).
• 1932 - George Mann MacBeth was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire. Scottish poet whose verses encompass moving personal elegies, highly contrived poetic jokes, dream fantasies, and macabre satires. Published his first poetry collection, A Form of Words in 1954
• 1935 - Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs.
• 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 dies. Brazilian poet.
• 1939 - William Faulkner novel The Wild Palms is published.
• 1939 - Phil Everly was born. American musician
• 1941 - Colin Gunton was born (d. 2003). British theologian
• 1941 - World War II: East Africa Kassala, 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 was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1942 - Michael Crawford was born. Broadway star (Phantom of the Opera)
• 1942 - World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
• 1943 - Janis Joplin was born (d. 1970). Singer.
• 1943 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born.
• 1944 - Shelley Fabares was born. American actress.
• 1944 - Peter Lynch was born. American investor.
• 1944 - Dan Reeves was born. American football coach.
• 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 - Julian Barnes was born. English author
• 1946 - Dolly Parton was born. American singer and actress.
• 1946 - General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
• 1947 - Manuel Machado Ruiz dies (b. 29 Aug 1874). Spanish poet.
• 1948 - Frank McKenna was born. Premier of New Brunswick and Canadian Ambassador
• 1949 - Dennis Taylor was born. Irish snooker player.
• 1949 - Cuba recognises Israel.
• 1949 - Robert Palmer was born (d.2003). Singer, guitarist (Emerson, Lake & Palmer).
• 1952 - David Patrick Kelly was born. American actor
• 1953 - Desi Arnaz Jr. was born. American actor
• 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.
• 1955 - Simon Rattle was born. English conductor
• 1955 - Paul Rodriguez was born. Mexican-born actor and comedian
• 1956 - Katey Sagal was born. American actress, singer, and writer.
• 1957 - Kenneth McClintock was born. Senate President of Puerto Rico.
• 1958 - Marechal Rondon, faleceu, sertanista brasileiro.
• 1964 - Sourou-Migan Apithy is elected president of Dahomey (renamed Benin in 1975).
• 1966 - Stefan Edberg was born. Swedish tennis player (Wimbledon 1988, US Open 1991).
• 1966 - Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India becoming the first woman to do it.
• 1966 - Floris Jan Bovelander was born. Dutch field hockey player.
• 1968 - Ray Harroun dies (b. 1879). American race car driver
• 1969 - Czech Student Jan Palach (b. 1948) 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.
• 1969 - Junior Seau was born. American football player
• 1971 - Shawn Wayans was born. American actor, writer, and producer.
• 1971 - John Wozniak was born. American singer, songwriter of Marcy Playground .
• 1971 - Revival of No, No, Nanette premieres (46th Street Theatre, New York City).
• 1971 - Harry Shields dies (b. 1899). American musician.
• 1972 - Michael Rabin dies (b. 1936). American violinist.
• 1973 - Drea de Matteo was born. American actress.
• 1973 - Karen Lancaume was born (d. 2005). French actress.
• 1974 - Jaime Moreno was born. Bolivian footballer.
• 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.
• 1975 - Thomas Hart Benton dies (b. 1889). American painter.
• 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 snowfall has occurred.
• 1978 - Mário Soares is designated Prime-Minister of Portugal
• 1979 - Svetlana Khorkinan was born. Russian gymnast.
• 1980 - William O. Douglas dies (b. 1898). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
• 1980 - Jenson Button was born. Formula 1 race car driver.
• 1981 - Asier Del Horno was born. Spanish footballer.
• 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 dies (b. 1945). Brazilian singer / Morte de Elis Regina (A Pimentinha), 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 on charges of crimes committed against humanity four decades earlier.
• 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.
• 1985 - Juan Antonio Corretjer dies. Leader of Puerto Rican nationalist party.
• 1986 - Spain recognizes Israel.
• 1990 - Rajneesh dies (b. 1931). Indian religious leader.
• 1990 - Herbert Wehner dies (b. 1906). German politician.
• 1991 - John Russell dies (b. 1921). American actor.
• 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.
• 1992 - Logan Lerman was born. American actor.
• 1992 - Manuel Silva Pereira dies. Portuguese musician.
• 1993 - IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992 which is the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history.
• 1994 - Record cold temperatures across the eastern half of the United States brings temperatures below -20°F in many locations, such as Ohio and Kentucky.
• 1994 - The Animals, The Band, Duane Eddy, The Grateful Dead, Elton John, John Lennon, Bob Marley & Rod Stewart inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
• 1996 - Don Simpson dies (b. 1943). American film producer.
• 1997 - James Dickey dies (b. 1923). American writer.
• 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 dies at 65 in Nashville. American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Blue Suede Shoes).
• 1998 - Maria Judite de Carvalho dies (b. 18 Sep 1921). Portuguese writer (Tanta Gente Mariana...). Ver biografia em português do IPLB
• 2000 - Bettino Craxi dies (b. 1934). Prime Minister of Italy.
• 2000 - Hedy Lamarr dies (b. 1913). Austrian-born actress.
• 2002 - Faleceu aos 67 anos, o célebre futebolista brasileiro "Vavá", Edvaldo Izidio Neto.
• 2002 - Michael Jordan, formerly of the Washington Wizards, plays his first game in Chicago since rejoining the NBA.
• 2003 - Françoise Giroud dies (b. 1916). French journalist and politician. Co-founder of L'Express she was laureate with the Medicis Prizer in 1984.
• 2004 - Harry E. Claiborne dies (suicide) (b. 1917). American judge.
• 2004 - David Hookes dies (b. 1955). Australian cricketer and coach.
• 2005 - Bill Andersen dies (b. 1924). New Zealand communist and trade union leader.
• 2005 - K. Sello Duiker dies (b. 1974). South African novelist.
• 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
• Confederate Heroes Day in Texas