About January 19
January 19, 2023 is the 19th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 346 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 3 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 19
- 1419 –Hundred Years’ War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.
- 1511 –Mirandola surrenders to the French.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1829 –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.
- 1839 –The British East India Company captures Aden.
- 1883 –The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
- 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.
- 1946 –General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
- 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
- 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.
- 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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