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
- 1661 –Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
- 1788 –The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
- 1795 –The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
- 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.
- 1829 –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.
- 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.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
- 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.
- 1935 –Coopers Inc. sells the world’s first briefs.
- 1953 –68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
- 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.
- 1977 –President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. “Tokyo Rose”).
- 1977 –Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in the Bahamas.
- 1981 –Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
- 1983 –The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
- 1991 –Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
- 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.
- 2006 –A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
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