About January 19
January 19, 2025 is the 19th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 346 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 10 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 19
- 1520 –Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
- 1607 –San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
- 1661 –Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
- 1764 –John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
- 1788 –The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
- 1840 –Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
- 1853 –Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
- 1915 –Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
- 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.
- 1917 –Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma
- 1945 –World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź ghetto. Out more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
- 1960 –Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
- 1969 –Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague’s Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.
- 1975 –An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
- 1999 –British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
- 2006 –A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
- 2007 –Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper’s office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast.
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