About January 19
January 19, 2024 is the 19th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 347 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 22 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 19
- 379 –Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
- 1520 –Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
- 1764 –John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1899 –Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
- 1920 –The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
- 1942 –World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma
- 1960 –Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
- 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.
- 1978 –The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW’s plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.
- 1981 –Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
- 1983 –Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
- 1986 –The first computer virus released into the wild is a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
- 1993 –Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
- 1996 –The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
- 2006 –A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
- 2006 –The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
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