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What Happened on January 19th This Day in History

Year	Name
2014	A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and injures 38 others.
2012	The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
2007	Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
2007	Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
1999	British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
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.
1996	The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
1995	After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Helicopters Flight 56C are forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
1993	Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
1991	Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
1990	Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir valley in Indian-administered Kashmir due to an insurgency.[16]
1986	The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.
1983	Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
1983	The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Computer to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
1981	Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
1978	The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
1977	President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
1969	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.
1960	Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
1960	Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871 crashes near Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Turkey, killing all 42 aboard.
1953	Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
1946	General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
1945	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.
1942	World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.
1941	World War II: HMS Greyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with all hands 64 kilometres (40 mi) northeast of Falkonera.
1937	Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
1920	The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1920	The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.
1917	Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
1915	Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
1915	German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
1901	Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, stricken with paralysis. She dies three days later at the age of 81.
1899	Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
1883	The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1871	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.
1862	American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
1861	American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States.
1853	Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
1839	The British East India Company captures Aden.
1829	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance.
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.
1795	The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands, replacing the Dutch Republic.
1788	The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
1764	John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
1764	Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
1639	Hämeenlinna (Swedish: Tavastehus) was granted privileges after it separated from the Vanaja parish as its own city in Tavastia.
1607	San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
1520	Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3.
1511	The Italian Duchy of Mirandola surrenders to the Pope.
1419	Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
649	Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
379	Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.

Famous People Born on January 19

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Year	Name
1979	Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast and sportscaster
1983	Hikaru Utada, American-Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
1922	Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and journalist (d. 2015)
1807	Robert E. Lee, American general and academic (d. 1870)
1984	Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
1970	Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian and singer
1892	Ólafur Thors, Icelandic lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1964)
1985	Esteban Guerrieri, Argentinian race car driver
1878	Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1934)
1903	Boris Blacher, German composer and playwright (d. 1975)

Famous People Deaths On January 19

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on January 19. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1979	Moritz Jahn, German novelist and poet (b. 1884)
2017	Miguel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1955)
520	John of Cappadocia, patriarch of Constantinople
1853	Karl Faber, German historian and academic (b. 1773)
1401	Robert Bealknap, British justice
1998	Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
1976	Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (b. 1886)
1965	Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1905)
1874	August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and scholar (b. 1798)
1833	Ferdinand Hérold, French pianist and composer (b. 1791)