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Historical Events

19 Jan 1419
French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War
19 Jan 1493
France cedes Roussillon & Cerdagne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona
19 Jan 1511
Italian city Mirandola surrenders to the French
19 Jan 1520
Sten Sture the Younger Regent of Sweden is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund
19 Jan 1547
Henry Howard Earl of Surrey is executed in the Tower of London for treason
19 Jan 1607
San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed the oldest church in the Philippines
19 Jan 1714
Richard Steele publishes Crisis defending Hanoverian success
19 Jan 1746
Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling [OS Jan 8]
19 Jan 1795
Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy
19 Jan 1806
United Kingdom re-occupies the Cape of Good Hope following victory in the Battle of Blaauwberg over French vassal the Batavian Republic. Establishes British rule in South Africa.
19 Jan 1810
Overnight temperature at Portsmouth New Hampshire drops 50F (10C)
19 Jan 1825
Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans
19 Jan 1861
Misssissippi troops take Fort Massachusetts and Ship Island (US Civil War)
19 Jan 1862
Battle of Mill Springs Kentucky (Fishing Creek Logans Crossroads)
19 Jan 1863
General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland
19 Jan 1871
1st Negro lodge of US Masons approved New Jersey
19 Jan 1884
Jules Massenets opera Manon premieres in Paris
19 Jan 1885
Battle of Abu Klea Sudan between the British Desert Column and Mahdist forces 76 British and 1100 Mahdists killed
19 Jan 1886
Aurora Ski Club 1st in US founded in Minnesota
19 Jan 1893
Henrik Ibsens play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin
19 Jan 1898
Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game
19 Jan 1903
1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
19 Jan 1909
Eugene Walters Easiest Way premieres in NYC
19 Jan 1910
Germany & Bolivia end commerce and friendship treaty
19 Jan 1910
US National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress
19 Jan 1913
Raymond Poincar installed as President of France
19 Jan 1915
1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain 4 die
19 Jan 1917
The Silvertown explosion 73 die when a munitions factory in Essex explodes.
19 Jan 1918
Finnish Civil War The first serious battles between the Red Guards and the White Guard
19 Jan 1919
National elections held in Germany to form a National Constituent Assembly and draft a constitution
19 Jan 1921
Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
19 Jan 1922
Geological survey says US oil supply would be depleted in 20 years
19 Jan 1923
WMC-AM in Memphis TN begins radio transmissions
19 Jan 1925
-48F (-44C) Van Buren Maine (state record)
19 Jan 1927
British government decides to send troops to China
19 Jan 1929
Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 sec
19 Jan 1932
Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game 1st coming at 7 seconds of game
19 Jan 1934
Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jacksons appeal for reinstatement
19 Jan 1935
KLM begins flight path between Curacao & Aruba
19 Jan 1935
Coopers Inc. sells the worlds first mens briefs in Chicago calls it the Jockey
19 Jan 1938
General Motors begins mass production of diesel engines
19 Jan 1939
Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record of 4.4 sec
19 Jan 1943
Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily
19 Jan 1950
Maiden flight by Canadas Avro Canada CF-100 military plane
19 Jan 1958
Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League
19 Jan 1960
Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact
19 Jan 1963
Australian Championships Womens Tennis Margaret Court beats Jan Lehane ONeill for 4th consecutive year 6-2 6-2
19 Jan 1964
3rd AFL All Star Game Balboa Stadium SD Western Division beats Eastern Division 27-24 MVPs Keith Lincoln LA Chargers RB Archie Matsos Oakland Raiders LB
19 Jan 1964
KFME TV channel 13 in Fargo North Dakota (PBS) begins broadcasting
19 Jan 1966
Tippetts cantate Vision of St Augustine premieres in London
19 Jan 1967
Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will Vse Zene (All to wife)
19 Jan 1968
WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland Ohio (IND) begins broadcasting
19 Jan 1968
Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence ONeill calls for a new endeavour by organisations in Northern Ireland to cross denominational barriers and advance the cause of better community relations
19 Jan 1969
8th AFL All Star Game Gator Bowl Jacksonville Western Division beats Eastern Division 38-25 MVPs Len Dawson KC Chiefs QB George Webster Houston Oilers LB
19 Jan 1969
19th NFL Pro Bowl LA Memorial Coliseum Western Conference beats Eastern Conference 10-7 MVPs Roman Gabriel Los Angeles Rams QB Merlin Olsen Los Angeles Rams DT
19 Jan 1970
Dutch bishops says he is in favor of married priests
19 Jan 1970
Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails)
19 Jan 1971
No No Nanette opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 861 performances
19 Jan 1971
NHL Writers Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers Association
19 Jan 1974
Notre Dame beats UCLA ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak
19 Jan 1974
China and South Vietnam clash over the Paracel Islands resulting in a Chinese victory
19 Jan 1975
4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris escape to Iraq
19 Jan 1975
Triple J begins broadcasting in Sydney Australia.
19 Jan 1977
US President Ford pardons Iva Toguri DAquino (Tokyo Rose)
19 Jan 1977
Worlds largest crowd gathering - the Hindu Kumbh Mela in India attracts a then record 15 million people
19 Jan 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.
19 Jan 1978
Eddie Mathews elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19 Jan 1978
Judge William H. Webster appointed head of FBI
19 Jan 1979
John N Mitchell (former US Attorney General) released on parole from federal prison
19 Jan 1981
US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
19 Jan 1982
Aust-WI one-day game that produced a Privy Council libel case
19 Jan 1983
Klaus Barbie SS chief in Lyon in Nazi-occupied France arrested in Bolivia
19 Jan 1984
Francesco Moser bicycles world record time 50808 km
19 Jan 1984
California Supreme Court rejects the request of quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvias to starve herself to death in a public hospital
19 Jan 1987
Guy Hunt becomes Alabamas 1st Republican governor since 1874
19 Jan 1988
Disabled writer Christopher Nolan wins the Whitbread Book of the Year prize
19 Jan 1990
Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed v Australia at Adelaide
19 Jan 1990
Police break up protests in Johannesburg against the cricket players defying a boycott on playing in apartheid South Africa
19 Jan 1991
42nd NHL All-Star Game Chicago Stadium Campbell Conference beats Wales Conference 11-5 Vincent Damphousse Toronto C
19 Jan 1991
Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title
19 Jan 1991
Sgt Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt
19 Jan 1991
Iraq files SCUD missiles at Tel Aviv and other cities in Israel during the Gulf War
19 Jan 1992
City of Angels closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 878 performances
19 Jan 1992
Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble
19 Jan 1992
Rowdy Roddy Piper beats Mountie to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
19 Jan 1993
Robert M Gates ends term as 15th director of CIA
19 Jan 1994
-20F (-29C) (532 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio
19 Jan 1994
-36F (-38C) in New Whiteland Indiana (state record)
19 Jan 1995
Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg
19 Jan 1996
NHL Board of Governors approves sale of Winnipeg Jets officially clearing the way for the team to move to Phoenix Arizona in time for -97 season
19 Jan 2002
Tuck Rule Game AFC Divisional Playoff Game with under 2 minutes to play New England Patriots trail Oakland Raiders 13-10 in a driving snowstorm when a Tom Brady fumble ruled an incomplete pass. Patriots win 16-13 in overtime
19 Jan 2003
AFC Championship Network Associates Coliseum Oakland Oakland Raiders beat Tennessee Titans 41-24
19 Jan 1982
Heater explodes at Star Elementary School Oklahoma kills 6 children & teacher
19 Jan 2003
NFC Championship Veterans Stadium Philadelphia Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat Philadelphia Eagles 27-10
19 Jan 2006
A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
19 Jan 2006
The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto
19 Jan 2006
Terrorist blows himself up in Tel Aviv killing only himself but injuring 20 people one of them seriously
19 Jan 2007
Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink assassinated in front of his newspapers office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogn Samast.
19 Jan 2012
FBI shuts down Megaupload.com for alleged copyright infringement hacker group Anonymous responds by attacking government and entertainment industry websites
19 Jan 2013
Four climbers are killed by an avalanche in Glen Coe Scotland
19 Jan 2013
Calcium deposits are discovered on Mars by NASAs Curiosity Rover
19 Jan 2013
The 2012- NHL season begins after a 119-day lockout
19 Jan 2014
AFC Championship Mile High Stadium Denver Denver Broncos beat New England Patriots 26-16
19 Jan 2014
NFC Championship CenturyLink Field Seattle Seattle Seahawks beat San Francisco 49ers 23-17
19 Jan 2016
Chinas economic growth revealed as lowest for 25 years - 6.9% in 2015
19 Jan 2017
Adama Barrow sworn in as President of Gambia in Dahkar as Senegalese troops enter Gambia to persuade former President Yahya Jammeh to leave
19 Jan 2017
High-rise building collapses in Tehran killing 20 firefighters
19 Jan 1940
LPGA Titleholders Championship Womens Golf Augusta CC Helen Hicks wins by 1 stroke ahead of Helen Dettweiler
19 Jan 1969
19th NFL Pro Bowl LA Memorial Coliseum West beats East 10-7 MVPs Roman Gabriel Los Angeles Rams QB Merlin Olsen Los Angeles Rams DT
19 Jan 1974
Notre Dame beats UCLA 71-70 in South Bend Indiana to end Bruins NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak
19 Jan 1991
42nd NHL All-Star Game Chicago Stadium Chicago IL Campbell beats Wales 11-5 Vincent Damphousse Toronto Maple Leafs C
19 Jan 1810
Cold Friday temperature at Portsmouth New Hampshire drops from 54F to minus 12F in one day with many frozen to death
19 Jan 1861
Mississippi troops take Fort Massachusetts and Ship Island (US Civil War)
19 Jan 1970
Eight Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands say there should be room in the church for both married priests and celibate priests
19 Jan 1990
Turning point in the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Hindus from Indian-administrated Kashmir due to violence from Muslim militants
19 Jan 2020
NFC Championship Levis Stadium Santa Clara San Francisco 49ers beat Green Bay Packers 37-20
19 Jan 2020
AFC Championship Arrowhead Stadium KC Kansas City Chiefs beat Tennessee Titans 35-24
19 Jan 1885
Battle of Abu Kru (Battle of Gubat) Sudan British Desert Column defeat Mahdist forces 121 British and untold Mahdists killed
19 Jan 1903
French newspaper LAuto announces new 5-stage long distance bicycle race Tour de France
19 Jan 1929
Finnish speed skater Clas Thunberg sets new world 500m record in 42.8 seconds in Davos Switzerland
19 Jan 1932
Charlie Conacher becomes first Toronto player to score 5 goals in an NHL game as Maple Leafs rout the NY Americans 11-3 at Maple Leaf Gardens
19 Jan 1952
NFL purchases struggling football franchise New York Yanks from owner Ted Collins moves club to Dallas Texas
19 Jan 1992
Cy Coleman and David Zippels musical City of Angels closes at the Virginia Theater NYC after 879 performances winning 6 Tony and 8 Drama Desk Awards
19 Jan 2021
The US death toll from COVID-19 passes 400000
19 Jan 1492
Supplies to build Portuguese trading post Castelo de So Jorge da Mina (Elmina Castle) arrive on the Gold Coast (now Ghana) first European building south of the Sahara
19 Jan 1847
Mexican and indigenous Pueblo warriors kill territorial governor Charles Bent (47) and 5 others in a revolt against new American rulers in Taos New Mexico Territory
19 Jan 1966
British composer Michael Tippetts cantata Vision of St Augustine premieres in London
19 Jan 2007
Armenian journalist Hrant Dink assassinated in front of his Agos newspapers office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogn Samast
19 Jan 2020
AFC Championship Arrowhead Stadium Kansas City Missouri Kansas City Chiefs beat Tennessee Titans 35-24
19 Jan 2020
NFC Championship Levis Stadium Santa Clara California San Francisco 49ers beat Green Bay Packers 37-20
19 Jan 2022
5G cellphone service launches in the US with airlines claiming it could interfere with airplane technologies
19 Jan 2022
Major report on antimicrobial resistance shows 4.95m deaths worldwide associated with drug-resistant bacteria making untreatable infections now a leading cause of death [1]
19 Jan 1942
Dutch Catholic priest and outspoken anti-Nazi Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers - later dies at Dachau concentration camp (canonized 2022 by Pope Francis)
19 Jan 2007
Armenian journalist Hrant Dink assassinated in front of his Agos newspapers office by 17-year-old Turkish ultranationalist Ogn Samast
19 Jan 2023
Cyclone Cheneso makes landfall in northern Madagascar killing at least 25 people and leaving about 40000 homeless [1]
19 Jan 1795
Democratic revolution in Amsterdam results in establishment of shot-lived Batavian Republic
19 Jan 1922
Geological survey says US oil supply will be depleted in 20 years
19 Jan 1942
Dutch Catholic priest and outspoken anti-Nazi Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers - later dies at Dachau concentration camp posthumously canonized by Pope Francis in 2022
19 Jan 1960
President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi sign the US-Japan Security Treaty
19 Jan 1977
Worlds largest crowd gathering - the Hindu Kumbh Mela in India attracts a record 15 million people
19 Jan 2024
At least 70 miners are killed in a gold mine collapses in Kangaba district south-west Mali the latest in a series of small-scale mine disasters [1]
19 Jan 2024
UK declares national incident over rise of measles cases due to lack of vaccination WHOs European region also reports 5-fold increase 2022-2023 [1]
19 Jan 1806
United Kingdom reoccupies the Cape of Good Hope following victory in the Battle of Blaauwberg over French vassal the Batavian Republic establishing British rule in South Africa
19 Jan 1903
First regular transatlantic radio broadcast between the US and England
19 Jan 1977
Worlds largest crowd gathering the Hindu Kumbh Mela in India attracts a record 15 million people
19 Jan 1978
Harlem drug lord Nicky Barnes is sentenced to life in prison and a 125000 fine after being convicted on narcotics racketeering charges
19 Jan 2025
Gaza war Israel-Hamas ceasefire comes into effect in Gaza as the first Israeli hostages are released with the Palestinian death toll at least 46800 (lasts until an Israeli surprise attack on 18 March) [1]
19 Jan 2025
TikTok app stops working in the US shortly before a federal ban on the app is due to take effect [1]