379 After the disastrous Battle of Adrianople in 378 where the Eastern Roman Emperor Valens was killed by the Goths, the Western Roman Emperor Gratian invited Flavius Theodosius to take command of the Illyrian army. As Valens had no successor, Gratian's appointment of Theodosius amounted to a de facto invitation for Theodosius to become emperor of the eastern half of the Empire. His reign began on January 19, 379. Theodosius the Great was the prime mover of imperial Christianity during its early period as a privileged religion and the last of the great Roman emperors.
1544 Francis II of France was born January 19, 1544 at the Château de Fontainebleau eleven years after the wedding of his parents' Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. When the Dauphin Francis was three, his father agreed to unite France and Scotland by marrying him to the Scottish Queen, Mary Queen of Scots. They wed at Notre Dame in Paris when Francis was 14. He ascended the throne of France a year later after the accidental death of his father.
1607 Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi founded Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines in 1571. Spanish missionaries started christianizing the city and on January 19, 1607 San Agustin Church in Manila was officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
1736 Scottish engineer James Watt was born on January 19, 1736 in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. James was educated at home by his mother, later going on to attend Greenock Grammar School. Labelled dull and inept by his teachers, he only began to develop intellectually when he got into geometry at the age of 13. It is said James originally got the idea for a steam engine while still a boy watching steam lift the lid off his mother’s tea kettle.
1809 The writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809 to two touring vaudeville actors. Edgar was left an orphan when he was two and the wealthy Scottish merchant John Allan took him into his home in Richmond, Virginia. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He was the first well-known American to earn a living through writing alone,
1817 Six-and-a half years after a national junta was formed proclaiming Chile an autonomous republic within the Spanish monarchy, a patriotic army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crossed the Andes from Argentina, on January 19, 1817. From there they triumphed at the Battle of Chacabuco and the Battle of Maipú, thus liberating Chile from Spanish royalist rule.
1839 Paul Cézanne was born on January 19, 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, in Provence in the South of France. Paul's father, Louis-Auguste Cézanne was the co-founder of a banking firm. Going against the objections of his banker father, Cézanne committed himself to pursuing his artistic development and left Aix for Paris in 1861. His father's banking firm was a prosperous one, affording Paul Cézanne financial security that was unavailable to most of his artist contemporaries.
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| Francis II of France |
1607 Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi founded Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines in 1571. Spanish missionaries started christianizing the city and on January 19, 1607 San Agustin Church in Manila was officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
1736 Scottish engineer James Watt was born on January 19, 1736 in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. James was educated at home by his mother, later going on to attend Greenock Grammar School. Labelled dull and inept by his teachers, he only began to develop intellectually when he got into geometry at the age of 13. It is said James originally got the idea for a steam engine while still a boy watching steam lift the lid off his mother’s tea kettle.
1809 The writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809 to two touring vaudeville actors. Edgar was left an orphan when he was two and the wealthy Scottish merchant John Allan took him into his home in Richmond, Virginia. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He was the first well-known American to earn a living through writing alone,
1817 Six-and-a half years after a national junta was formed proclaiming Chile an autonomous republic within the Spanish monarchy, a patriotic army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crossed the Andes from Argentina, on January 19, 1817. From there they triumphed at the Battle of Chacabuco and the Battle of Maipú, thus liberating Chile from Spanish royalist rule.
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| Generals José de San Martín (left) and Bernardo O'Higgins (right) crossing the Andes. |
1839 Paul Cézanne was born on January 19, 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, in Provence in the South of France. Paul's father, Louis-Auguste Cézanne was the co-founder of a banking firm. Going against the objections of his banker father, Cézanne committed himself to pursuing his artistic development and left Aix for Paris in 1861. His father's banking firm was a prosperous one, affording Paul Cézanne financial security that was unavailable to most of his artist contemporaries.
1829 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe completed the first part of his poetic play, Faust, in 1808, a lifelong preoccupation for the writer. Its publication was followed by the revised 1828–29 edition, the last to be edited by Goethe himself. Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy received its premiere performance in Braunschweig on January 19, 1829. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages.
1883 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begun service at Roselle, New Jersey on January 19, 1883. Edison's desire was to demonstrate that an entire community could be lit by electricity. The First Presbyterian Church, located on the corner of West 5th Avenue and Chestnut Street in Roselle, was the first church in the world to be lit by electricity.
1912 Two days after arriving at the South Pole a month after Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott's deflated party began the 800-mile (1,300 km) return journey on January 19, 1912. Scott and his four comrades died from exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.
1915 The first aerial raid on England took place on the night of January 19-20, 1915. Two Zeppelins, L 3 and L 4 dropped their bombs on Great Yarmouth, Sheringham, King's Lynn and the surrounding villages, killing four and injuring 16. Material damage was estimated at £7,740.
1915 French inventor Georges Claude patented the neon discharge tube for use in advertising on January 19, 1915. Eight years later Georges Claude and his French company Claude Neon, introduced neon gas signs to the United States, by selling two to a L.A. Packard car dealership. Neon lighting quickly became a popular fixture in outdoor advertising. Visible even in daylight, people would stop and stare at the first neon signs for hours, dubbed "liquid fire."
1915 The first aerial raid on England took place on the night of January 19-20, 1915. Two Zeppelins, L 3 and L 4 dropped their bombs on Great Yarmouth, Sheringham, King's Lynn and the surrounding villages, killing four and injuring 16. Material damage was estimated at £7,740.
1915 French inventor Georges Claude patented the neon discharge tube for use in advertising on January 19, 1915. Eight years later Georges Claude and his French company Claude Neon, introduced neon gas signs to the United States, by selling two to a L.A. Packard car dealership. Neon lighting quickly became a popular fixture in outdoor advertising. Visible even in daylight, people would stop and stare at the first neon signs for hours, dubbed "liquid fire."
1935 On January 19, 1935, during a blizzard, Coopers Inc. sold the world's first jockey briefs at the Marshall Field's State Street store in downtown Chicago. Designed by an apparel engineer named Arthur Kneibler, the briefs dispensed with leg sections. The day of its debut, Chicago's popular Marshall Field & Company sold out its stock of 600 packages by noon and sold 12,000 more in the following weeks
1937 The American business magnate Howard Hughes was a lifelong aircraft enthusiast and pilot setting multiple world air speed records. Flying his H-1 Racer, Hughes set a transcontinental airspeed record on January 19, 1937 by flying non-stop from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds (beating his own previous record of 9 hours, 27 minutes). His average ground speed over the flight was 322 mph (518 km/h).
1945 The Łódź Ghetto in Poland was one of the largest and longest-existing ghettos during the Holocaust and the vast majority of its Jewish population was sent to extermination camps, where they were killed. When Soviet forces liberated the Łódź Ghetto on January 19, 1945, only 877 Jews of the initial population of 164,000 remained.
1953 71.7% of all television sets in the United States were tuned into I Love Lucy on January 19, 1953 to watch her give birth. The Lucy Goes to the Hospital episode had actually been filmed on November 14, 1952 and to increase the publicity of this episode, the original air date was chosen to coincide with Lucille Ball's real-life delivery of Desi, Jr. by Caesarean section.
1955 Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first U.S. President to record a TV news conference on January 19, 1955. This was an important moment in the history of television, as it marked the first time a President had used this medium to communicate directly with the American people.
1964 Indira Gandhi became India’s first female leader on January 19, 1966. She was the daughter of the country’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards in 1984.
1969 Student Jan Palach died on January 19, 1969 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 turned into a major protest.
1977 The only known occurrence of snow in Miami happened on January 19, 1977, when a brief and light snowfall was reported, but it did not accumulate on the ground. It also fell the same day in the Bahamas.
1983 The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, was launched on January 19, 1983. Although the Lisa was a commercial failure—due in part to its initial price tag of $9,995—it had a significant impact on the computer industry. It is often rumored to have been named after the first daughter of Apple's Steve Jobs, though several acronyms have been ascribed to the name.
1986 The first computer virus was released into the wild on January 19, 1986. 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.
1994 On January 19, 1994, children from a school in Hackney, East London were barred from seeing Romeo And Juliet because their headmistress, Jane Brown, claimed it was "too heterosexual." The incident was widely reported in the press, and Brown was criticized for her decision. She later apologized for the ban.
2007 The southern pole of inaccessibility is the point on the Antarctic continent most distant from the Southern Ocean. A four-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1967 on January 19, 2007. It was also the first time ever the feat had been achieved without mechanical assistance.
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2021 Newport County goalkeeper Tom King scored a wind-assisted goal on January 19, 2021 in his team's 1–1 League Two draw at Cheltenham Town. Guinness confirmed it set a World Record for longest goal in a football match, with a distance of 96.01 metres (105 yd), a record previously held, since November 2013, by Asmir Begović.
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