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History Events on January 19


San Agustin Church (Manila)
San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.

#San_Agustin_Church_(Manila)

World War II
World War II: HMS Greyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with all hands 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Falkonera.

#World_War_II

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance.

#Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe

John Wilkes
John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.

#John_Wilkes

José de San Martín
An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.

#José_de_San_Martín

Gratian
Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.

#Gratian

Czech Republic
Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.

#Czech_Republic

Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.

#Giuseppe_Verdi

Thomas Edison
The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.

#Thomas_Edison

Paracel Islands
China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam

#Paracel_Islands

I Love Lucy
Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.

#I_Love_Lucy

Georges Claude
Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.

#Georges_Claude

Douglas MacArthur
General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.

#Douglas_MacArthur

Gerald Ford
President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").

#Gerald_Ford

Hundred Years' War
Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.

#Hundred_Years'_War

Dutch Cape Colony
Britain occupies the Dutch Cape Colony after the Battle of Blaauwberg.

#Dutch_Cape_Colony

Jan Palach
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.

#Jan_Palach

American Civil War
American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States.

#American_Civil_War

Thomas Venner
Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.

#Thomas_Venner

Sten Sture the Younger
Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.

#Sten_Sture_the_Younger

Apple Lisa
The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.

#Apple_Lisa

Red Army
World War II: Soviet forces liberate the ?ód? Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.

#Red_Army

Volkswagen Beetle
The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.

#Volkswagen_Beetle

Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.

#Yasser_Arafat

American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.

#American_Civil_Liberties_Union

Iran hostage crisis
Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.

#Iran_hostage_crisis

Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.

#Howard_Hughes

Bolle Willum Luxdorph
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.

#Bolle_Willum_Luxdorph

First Fleet
The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.

#First_Fleet

Gulf War
Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.

#Gulf_War

Mirandola
The Italian city-fortress of Mirandola surrenders to the French.

#Mirandola

Battle of Mill Springs
American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.

#Battle_of_Mill_Springs

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.

#Anglo-Egyptian_Sudan

British Aerospace
British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.

#British_Aerospace

United States Senate
The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.

#United_States_Senate

Franco-Prussian War
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.

#Franco-Prussian_War

Batavian Republic
The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands, bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.

#Batavian_Republic

A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and injures 38 others.
The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
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.
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Flight 56C are forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
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.
Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.
You Nazty Spy!, the first Hollywood film of any kind to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazis premieres, starring The Three Stooges, with Moe Howard as the character "Moe Hailstone" satirizing Hitler.
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.
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.
The British East India Company captures Aden.
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.