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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, 1st Duke of Wellington, 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, New Jersey.

★ 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, No, Nanette'' 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, Florida. 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, Workers and Farmers of Angola 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)

★ 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

★ 1952 - David Patrick Kelly, American actor

★ 1953 - Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor

★ 1953 - Richard Legendre, Canadian politician

★ 1954 - Katey Sagal, American actress

★ 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

★ 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 - 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

★ 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 - Troy Wilson, Australian racing driver and AFL player

★ 1973 - Karen Lancaume, French actress (d. 2005)

★ 1974 - Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer

★ 1974 - Ian Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1976 - Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver

★ 1977 - Lauren, Cameroonian footballer

★ 1977 - Nicole, Chilean singer

★ 1979 - Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast

★ 1979 - Wiley (rapper), 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, Earl of Surrey, 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)

★ 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)

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, Martha, Abachum and Audifax^[1][2]

★ Canute IV of Denmark

★ Henry of Uppsala

★ Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester

★ 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 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

References

1.
★ Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. ''The Penguin Dictionary of Saints''. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.
2.
★ Holweck, F. G. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saint''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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