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Today January 19th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
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.
1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is currently the oldest church in the Philippines
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, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe s Faust Part 1 premieres.
1839 – The 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 Confederacy 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 – Georges 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. sells the world s first briefs.
1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California 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 the ghetto of Lódz. 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 television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
1966 – Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India.
1969 – Student Jan Palach dies 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 – The revival of No, No, Nanette premieres at the 46th Street Theatre, in New York City.
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 would 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 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
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.
1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
2006 – Terrorist blows himself up in Tel Aviv, killing only himself but injuring 20 people, one of them seriously.
2006 – A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
2007 – Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink assassinated in front of his newspaper s office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast.
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)
1752 – James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820)
1757 – Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)
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 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
1913 – Minnesota Fats, American billiards player (d. 1996)
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 – Billy Batts Devino, American gangster (d. 1970)
1921 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
1922 – Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
1923 – Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
1923 – Jean Stapleton, American actress
1924 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)
1924 – Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
1925 – Nina Bawden, English author
1926 – Fritz Weaver, American actor
1930 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
1931 – Robert MacNeil, Canadian journalist
1932 – Richard Lester, British director
1932 – Russ Hamilton, British singer (d. 2008)
1933 – George Coyne – American theologian
1935 – Johnny O Keefe, Australian singer (d. 1978)
1936 – Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
1939 – Phil Everly, American musician
1940 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
1940 – Mike Reid, English comedian (d. 2007)
1941 – Tony Anholt, British actor (d. 2002)
1941 – Colin Gunton, British theologian (d. 2003)
1941 – Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler
1942 – Michael Crawford, British singer and actor
1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
1943 – Petchara Chaowarat, Thai film actress
1943 – Larry Clark, American film director
1943 – Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
1944 – Shelley Fabares, American actress
1944 – Laurie London, English singer
1944 – Peter Lynch, American investor
1944 – Dan Reeves, American football coach
1946 – Julian Barnes, English author
1946 – Dolly Parton, American singer and actress
1947 – Ann Compton, American news reporter
1947 – Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur
1947 – Rod Evans, British musician (Deep Purple)
1948 – Frank McKenna, Canadian politician
1949 – Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d. 2003)
1949 – Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player
1950 – Sébastien Dhavernas, Quebec actor
1950 – Grant Nordman, Canadian politician
1951 – Dewey Bunnell, American singer and songwriter (America)
1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
1953 – Linda Hayden, English actress
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
1956 – Carman Licciardello, American Christian singer
1957 – Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician
1962 – Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
1963 – Michael Adams, American basketball player
1963 – Martin Bashir, Pakistani-born reporter
1963 – Caron Wheeler, British singer (Soul II Soul)
1964 – Janine Antoni, Bahamian artist
1964 – Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer
1966 – Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player
1966 – Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
1966 – Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
1967 – Javier Cámara, Spanish actor
1969 – Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-born American author
1969 – Predrag Mijatovic, Yugoslavian footballer
1969 – Junior Seau, American football player
1969 – Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
1969 – Luc Longley, Australian basketball player
1970 – Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete
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 – Elena Kaliská, Slovak slalom canoer
1972 – Ron Killings, American professional wrestler
1972 – Princess Kalina of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
1972 – Troy Wilson, Australian racing driver and AFL player
1972 – Angham, Egyptian singer, record producer and actress
1973 – Drea de Matteo, American actress
1973 – Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist
1973 – Aaron Yonda, YouTube celebrity
1974 – Frank Caliendo, American comedian
1974 – Ian Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
1975 – Noah Georgeson, American musician and producer
1976 – Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver
1977 – Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer
1977 – Nicole, Chilean singer
1977 – Cocco, Ryukyuan singer
1979 – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
1979 – Josu Sarriegi, Spanish/Basque footballer
1979 – Wiley, English rapper (Grime)
1980 – Luke Macfarlane, Canadian actor
1980 – Jenson Button, English Formula One driver
1980 – Kotoko, Japanese Singer
1981 – Asier Del Horno, Spanish footballer
1981 – Lucho González, Argentine footballer
1982 – Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress
1982 – Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
1982 – Jodie Sweetin, American child actress
1983 – Hikaru Utada, American-born Japanese singer and songwriter
1984 – Euan Blair, Eldest son of Tony Blair
1984 – Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver
1984 – Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
1985 – Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
1985 – Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine racing driver
1985 – Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1987 – Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
1989 – Josh Hill, Australian rules footballer
1991 – Erin Sanders, American child actress
1992 – Logan Lerman, American child actor
1992 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnastics champion
Deaths
639 – Dagobert I, King of the Franks (b. c. 603)
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) (b. 1799)
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)
1927 – Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840)
1929 – Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
1939 – Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1948 – Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
1954 – Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (b. 1885)
1957 – József Dudás, Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (b. 1912)
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)
1976 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886)
1980 – William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1898)
1982 – Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1983 – Ham the Chimp, First hominid launched into outer space (b. 1956)
1984 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey 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)
1995 – Gene MacLellan, Canadian composer and singer (b. 1938)
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 footballer (b. 1967)
2000 – Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
2000 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress (b. 1913)
2001 – Dario Vittori, Argentine 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 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (b. 1976)
2005 – Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
2005 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
2006 – Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
2006 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
2006 – Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1933)
2006 – Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1921)
2007 – Scott Bam Bam Bigelow, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2007 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954)
2007 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1940)
2007 – Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer (b. 1969)
2008 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
2008 – John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
2008 – Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster for CBC (b. 1936)
Holidays and observances
Kappa Alpha Order Convivium (Founders Day)
Confederate Heroes Day in Texas.
The Poe Toaster commemorates the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe at his grave in Baltimore.
Maris, Martha, Abachum and Audifax
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)
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