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Events on the 19th of January in history

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19 Jan 0379 Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
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19 Jan 0379 Theodosius installed as co-emperor of East Roman Empire
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19 Jan 0639 Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy, is crowned.
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19 Jan 0649 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.
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19 Jan 0973 Pope Benedictus VI elected
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19 Jan 1419 Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
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19 Jan 1419 French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War
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19 Jan 1493 France cedes Roussillon & Cerd
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19 Jan 1511 Mirandola surrenders to the French.
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19 Jan 1520 Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
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19 Jan 1607 San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
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19 Jan 1661 Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
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19 Jan 1668 King Louis XIV & Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain
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19 Jan 1714 Richard Steele publishes "Crisis, " defending Hanoverian success
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19 Jan 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling
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19 Jan 1764 John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
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19 Jan 1770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
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19 Jan 1788 The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
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19 Jan 1793 French King Louis XVI sentenced to death
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19 Jan 1795 The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
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19 Jan 1795 Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy
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19 Jan 1806 The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
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19 Jan 1806 Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope
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19 Jan 1808 Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law
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19 Jan 1810 Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50
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19 Jan 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.
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19 Jan 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.
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19 Jan 1825 Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans
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19 Jan 1829 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance.
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19 Jan 1829 Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1" premieres
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19 Jan 1833 Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland
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19 Jan 1839 The British East India Company captures Aden.
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19 Jan 1839 Aden conquered by British East India Company
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19 Jan 1840 Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
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19 Jan 1840 Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim)
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19 Jan 1853 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
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19 Jan 1853 Napoleon III marries Eug
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19 Jan 1853 Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" premieres, in Rome
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19 Jan 1861 American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
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19 Jan 1861 MS troops take Fort Massachusetts an Ship Island
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19 Jan 1861 Georgia becomes 5th state to secede
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19 Jan 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
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19 Jan 1862 Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads)
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19 Jan 1863 General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland
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19 Jan 1865 Union occupies Fort Anderson, North Carolina
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19 Jan 1865 Union occupies Fort Anderson NC
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19 Jan 1865 NV Suriname Bank established
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19 Jan 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.
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19 Jan 1871 1st Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey
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19 Jan 1883 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
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19 Jan 1884 Jules Massenet's opera "Manon" premieres in Paris
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19 Jan 1885 Battle at Abu Klea Sudan 800-1000 killed
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19 Jan 1886 Aurora Ski Club, 1st in US, founded in Minnesota
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19 Jan 1893 Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
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19 Jan 1898 Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game
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19 Jan 1899 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
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19 Jan 1903 New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced
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19 Jan 1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
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19 Jan 1906 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Und Pippa Tanzt!" premieres in Berlin
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19 Jan 1909 Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way" premieres in New York City NY
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19 Jan 1910 Germany and Bolivia ends commerce / friendship treaty
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19 Jan 1910 National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress
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19 Jan 1913 Raymond Poincar
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19 Jan 1915 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.
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19 Jan 1915 Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
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19 Jan 1915 Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude
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19 Jan 1915 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die
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19 Jan 1917 Silvertown explosion: Seventy-three are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
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19 Jan 1917 Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die
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19 Jan 1918 Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly
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19 Jan 1919 "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 m high x 25 m wide kills dozens, Boston
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19 Jan 1919 "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 meters high x 25 meters wide kills dozens, Boston
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19 Jan 1920 The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
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19 Jan 1920 US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations
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19 Jan 1920 Alexandre Millerand forms French government
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19 Jan 1921 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
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19 Jan 1922 Geological survey says US oil supply would be depleted in 20 years
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19 Jan 1923 WMC-AM in Memphis TN begins radio transmissions
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19 Jan 1925 -48
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19 Jan 1927 British government decides to send troops to China
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19 Jan 1929 Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 seconds
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19 Jan 1929 Acadia National Park, Maine established
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19 Jan 1932 Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, the 1st coming at 7 seconds of the game
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19 Jan 1934 Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement
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19 Jan 1935 KLM begins flight path between Curacao and Aruba
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19 Jan 1935 Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
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19 Jan 1935 KLM begins flight path between Cura
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19 Jan 1937 Cy Young, Tris Speaker and Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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19 Jan 1937 Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
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19 Jan 1937 Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record (7h28m25s)
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19 Jan 1938 GM began mass production of diesel engines
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19 Jan 1939 Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 seconds
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19 Jan 1941 World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
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19 Jan 1941 British troops occupy Kassalaf Sudan
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19 Jan 1941 British offensive in Eritrea
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19 Jan 1942 Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers
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19 Jan 1942 World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
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19 Jan 1942 Titus Brandsma (Carmelite priest) arrested by German occupiers for speaking out against Nazism as a "lie" and "pagan"
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19 Jan 1942 Japanese forces invade Burma
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19 Jan 1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily
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19 Jan 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.
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19 Jan 1946 General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
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19 Jan 1947 SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392
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19 Jan 1949 Cuba recognizes Israel.
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19 Jan 1950 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane
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19 Jan 1952 PGA approves allowing black participants
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19 Jan 1952 NFL takes control of New York Yanks
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19 Jan 1953 Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
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19 Jan 1953 Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary
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19 Jan 1955 "Millionaire" TV program premieres on CBS
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19 Jan 1955 "Scrabble" debuts on board game market
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19 Jan 1955 "Scrabble" debuts on board game market
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19 Jan 1955 1st Presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower)
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19 Jan 1955 "The Millionaire" TV program premieres on CBS
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19 Jan 1956 Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field
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19 Jan 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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19 Jan 1958 Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League
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19 Jan 1960 Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
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19 Jan 1960 Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact
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19 Jan 1961 1st episode for "Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed
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19 Jan 1961 1st episode for "The Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed
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19 Jan 1964 KFME TV channel 13 in Fargo, ND (PBS) begins broadcasting
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19 Jan 1966 Tippetts cantate "Vision of St. Augustine, " premieres in London
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19 Jan 1966 Neil Simon, Coleman & Fields' musical "Sweet Charity" premieres
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19 Jan 1966 Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister
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19 Jan 1967 Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will "Vse Zene" (All to wife)
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19 Jan 1968 WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland OH (IND) begins broadcasting
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19 Jan 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.
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19 Jan 1969 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
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19 Jan 1969 AFL Pro Bowl West beats East 38-25
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19 Jan 1970 Nixon nominates G Harrold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails)
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19 Jan 1970 Dutch bishop says he is in favor of married priest
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19 Jan 1970 UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist
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19 Jan 1971 "No, No Nanette" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 861 performances
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19 Jan 1971 24th NHL All-Star Game West beat East 2-1 at Boston
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19 Jan 1971 "No, No Nanette" opens at 46th St Theater New York City NY for 861 performances
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19 Jan 1971 NHL Writers' Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Association
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19 Jan 1971 Beatles' Helter Skelter is played at the Charles Manson trial
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19 Jan 1972 Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, & Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame
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19 Jan 1974 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)
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19 Jan 1974 Belgium government of Leburton falls
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19 Jan 1974 Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak
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19 Jan 1975 An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
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19 Jan 1975 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Colgate Golf Triple Crown
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19 Jan 1975 4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq
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19 Jan 1977 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.
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19 Jan 1977 President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
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19 Jan 1977 Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame
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19 Jan 1977 World's largest crowd-12.7 million-for Indian religious festival
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19 Jan 1978 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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19 Jan 1978 Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI
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19 Jan 1978 Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame
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19 Jan 1979 John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison
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19 Jan 1981 Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
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19 Jan 1981 US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
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19 Jan 1981 Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide
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19 Jan 1982 Australia-West Indies one-day game that produced a Privy Council libel case
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19 Jan 1982 Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Oklahoma, kills 6 kids & teacher
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19 Jan 1983 The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
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19 Jan 1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
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19 Jan 1983 Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia
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19 Jan 1984 California Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital
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19 Jan 1984 Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km
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19 Jan 1984 Francesco Moser bicycles world record time 50,808 km (he is the first man to break the 50 km/h barrier)
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19 Jan 1984 California Supreme Court refuses to allow quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia to starve herself to death in a public hospital, she appeals and is later granted the right to die
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19 Jan 1985 "Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen peaked at #9
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19 Jan 1985 4 die in a car and train crash in Buda, Illinois
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19 Jan 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 piracy of the software they had written.
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19 Jan 1986 Spain recognizes Israel
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19 Jan 1986 Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands
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19 Jan 1987 Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874
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19 Jan 1988 "48 Hours" premiers on CBS-TV
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19 Jan 1988 "48 Hours" premieres on CBS-TV
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19 Jan 1989 President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
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19 Jan 1990 Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, vs Australia at Adelaide
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19 Jan 1991 Eastern Airlines shuts down operation
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19 Jan 1991 Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
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19 Jan 1991 Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title
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19 Jan 1991 48th Golden Globes Dances with Wolves
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19 Jan 1991 Sergeant Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt
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19 Jan 1991 42nd NHL All Star Game-Campbell beats Wales 11-5 in Chicago
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19 Jan 1992 "City of Angels" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 878 performances
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19 Jan 1992 Rowdy Roddy Piper beats Mountie to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
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19 Jan 1992 Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble
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19 Jan 1992 IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992
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19 Jan 1992 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises 23,500,000
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19 Jan 1992 "City of Angels" closes at Virginia Theater New York City NY after 878 performances
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19 Jan 1993 Oakland Athletics unveil new elephant logo
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19 Jan 1993 Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
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19 Jan 1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) lands
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19 Jan 1993 Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA
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19 Jan 1993 Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal
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19 Jan 1994 -36
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19 Jan 1994 -20
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19 Jan 1995 After being struck by lightning the crew are forced to ditch Bristow Flight 56C. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
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19 Jan 1995 Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg
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19 Jan 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.
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19 Jan 1996 NHL approves move of Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix
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19 Jan 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.
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19 Jan 1997 Michelle McGann wins LPGA Healthsouth Inaugural
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19 Jan 1997 Cerebral Palsy telethon
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19 Jan 1997 54th Golden Globes English Patient, Brenda Blethyn & Geoffrey Rush
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19 Jan 1999 British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
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19 Jan 2006 The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
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19 Jan 2007 Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
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19 Jan 2012 The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
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19 Jan 2014 A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 soldiers and injures 38 others.
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