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19 January, 2006
A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
19 January, 2006
The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
19 January, 2006
Jet Airways announces its purchase of Air Sahara, creating the largest domestic airline in India.
19 January, 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.
19 January, 1993
IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history.
19 January, 1992
Decree time is restored in Russia after its previous abolition in March 1991.
19 January, 1991
The Party of the Alliance of Youth, Workers and Farmers of Angola is founded in Luanda, Angola.
19 January, 1983
Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
19 January, 1983
The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
19 January, 1981
Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
19 January, 1978
The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VWs plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.
19 January, 1977
President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri DAquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
19 January, 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 January, 1975
Triple J begins broadcasting in Sydney, Australia.
19 January, 1974
The UCLA mens basketball team sees its 88-game winning streak end at the hands of Notre Dame.
19 January, 1971
The revival of No, No, Nanette premieres at the 46th Street Theatre, in New York City.
19 January, 1969
Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Pragues Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.
19 January, 1966
Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India.
19 January, 1953
68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
19 January, 1949
Cuba recognises Israel.
19 January, 1946
General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
19 January, 1945
World War II: Soviet forces liberate the ghetto of Lódz. Out of 230,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived Nazi occupation.
19 January, 1942
World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
19 January, 1941
World War II: British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea.
19 January, 1937
Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
19 January, 1935
Coopers Inc. sells the worlds first briefs.
19 January, 1920
The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
19 January, 1918
Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
19 January, 1917
German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance against the United States.
19 January, 1917
Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
19 January, 1915
Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
19 January, 1915
World War I: German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
19 January, 1899
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
19 January, 1893
Henrik Ibsens play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin.
19 January, 1883
The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
19 January, 1871
Franco-Prussian War: Battle of St. Quentin is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
19 January, 1862
American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs - The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
19 January, 1853
Giuseppe Verdis opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome.
19 January, 1840
Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
19 January, 1839
The British East India Company captures Aden.
19 January, 1829
Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Faust Part 1 premieres.
19 January, 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.
19 January, 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.
19 January, 1806
The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
19 January, 1795
Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands. End of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
19 January, 1788
Second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
19 January, 1764
John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
19 January, 1520
Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
19 January, 1511
Mirandola surrenders to the French.
19 January, 1419
Hundred Years War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.

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