SomeFacts | January 19

On this day - January 19

379 — Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ...

649 — Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a ...

1419 — Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of ...

1421 — John VIII Palaiologos marries Sophia of Montferrat and is then ...

1511 — The Italian Duchy of Mirandola surrenders to the Pope.

1520 — Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally ...

1607 — San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is ...

1639 — Hämeenlinna (Swedish: Tavastehus) is granted privileges after ...

1764 — Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, ...

1764 — John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for ...

1788 — The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany ...

1795 — The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands, ...

1817 — An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, ...

1829 — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the ...

1839 — The British East India Company captures Aden.

1853 — Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere ...

1861 — American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, ...

1862 — American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy ...

1871 — Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the ...

1883 — The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, ...

1899 — Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.

1901 — Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, is stricken with ...

1915 — German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins ...

1915 — Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in ...

1917 — Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London ...

1920 — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.

1920 — The United States Senate votes against joining the League of ...

1937 — Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles ...

1941 — World War II: HMS Greyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 ...

1942 — World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.

1945 — World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more ...

1946 — General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International ...

1953 — Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States ...

1960 — Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871 crashes near Ankara ...

1960 — Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security ...

1966 — Indira Gandhi becomes India's first female prime minister.

1969 — Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three ...

1977 — President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. ...

1978 — The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's ...

1981 — Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign ...

1988 — Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286 crashes in Bayfield, ...

1990 — Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in ...

1991 — Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, ...

1993 — Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.

1995 — After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow ...

1996 — The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces ...

1997 — Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and ...

1999 — British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of ...

2006 — A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes near Hejce, Hungary, ...

2007 — Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a ...

2007 — Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in ...

2012 — The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut ...

2014 — A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at ...

2024 — The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's probe lands on ...

2025 — Bytedance and sister companies are banned from the United ...