Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
8191January 19Event1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
8192January 19Event1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance.
8193January 19Event1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden.
8194January 19Event1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
8195January 19Event1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
8196January 19Event1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
8197January 19Event1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
8198January 19Event1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
8199January 19Event1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
8200January 19Event1893 – Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
8201January 19Event1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
8202January 19Event1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
8203January 19Event1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns 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.
8204January 19Event1917 – Silvertown explosion: Seventy-three are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
8205January 19Event1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
8206January 19Event1935 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
8207January 19Event1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
8208January 19Event1941 – World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
8209January 19Event1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
8210January 19Event1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
8211January 19Event1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
8212January 19Event1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel.
8213January 19Event1953 – Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
8214January 19Event1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
8215January 19Event1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
8216January 19Event1974 – China gain control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People's Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
8217January 19Event1975 – An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
8218January 19Event1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
8219January 19Event1977 – Snow falls in Miami. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in The Bahamas.
8220January 19Event1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.

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