19 Januar

The 19t o Januar is the 19t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 346 days ti come (347 in lowp years).

 Hans 
 1419 - Hunder Years' War: Rouen surrenders tae Henry V o Ingland. Normandy is unner Inglis control.
 1806 - The Breetish occupy the Dutch Cape Colony in present-day Sooth Africae.
 1839 - The Breetish East Indie Company capturs Aden in present-day Yemen.
 1861 - Georgie secedes frae the Unitit States.
 1862 - American Ceevil War: The first major Confederate defeat o the war occurs in the Battle o Mill Springs.
 1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is creatit.
 1915 - Warld War I: German zeppelins bomb the Norfolk touns o Great Yarmouth an King's Lynn.
 1917 - 73 fowk are kilt efter a munitions splosion in Lunnon.
 1920 - The Unitit States Senate votes agin jynin the League o Naitions.
 1942 - Warld War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
 1942 - Warld War II: A German U-boat sinks the Canadian passenger steamer "RMS Lady Hawkins" aff North Carolina, killin 251 fowk.
 1949 - Cuba recognises Israel. 
 1966 - Indira Gandhi becomes Prime meenister o Indie.
 1978 - The last Volkswagen Beetle tae be producit in Germany rolls aff the assembly line in Emden.
 1983 - Klaus Barbie, umwhile Gestapo chief in Lyon, is arrestit in Bolivie.
 1993 - The Czech Republic an Slovakie join the Unitit Naitions.
 2006 - The New Horizons space probe tae Pluto is launched.
 2007 - Extendin frae the previous day, Hurricane Kyrill continues its path o destruction across Northren Europe.
 2017 - Adama Barrow is inauguratit as Preses o The Gambie at the kintra's embassy in Dakar, Senegal.

 Births 
 1544 - Francis II o Fraunce (d. 1560)
 1736 - James Watt, Scots ingineer (d. 1819)
 1798 - Auguste Comte, French economist an sociologist (d. 1857)
 1807 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (d. 1849)
 1839 - Paul Cézanne, French penter (d. 1906)
 1897 - Bill Harper, Scots fitbawer (d. 1989)
 1912 - Leonid Kantorovich, Soviet-Roushie mathemateecian an economist (d. 1986)
 1920 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions (d. 2020)
 1930 - Tippi Hedren, American actress
 1936 - Ziaur Rahman, Preses o Bangladesh (d. 1981)
 1943 - Peter Atkinson, Inglis politeecian
 1943 - Janis Joplin, American sangster (d. 1970)
 1945 - Bobby Moncur, Scots fitbawer
 1946 - Dolly Parton, American sangster
 1949 - Dennis Taylor, Northren Erse snooker player
 1955 - Sir Simon Rattle, Inglis conductor
 1963 - John Bercow, Inglis politeecian
 1965 - J. B. Pritzker, American politeecian, Govrenor o Illinois
 1966 - Stefan Edberg, Swadish tennis player
 1978 - Thiago Lacerda, Brazilian actor
 1980 - Jenson Button, Inglis racin driver
 1982 - Pete Buttigieg, American politeecian
 1986 - Claudio Marchisio, Italian fitbawer
 1992 - Shawn Johnson, American gymnast

 Daiths 
 1819 - King Charles IV o Spain (b. 1748)
 1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher an politeecian (b. 1809)
 1969 - Jan Palach, Czech student (b. 1948)
 1977 - Jerry Dawson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1909)
 1991 - Bobby Combe, Scots fitbawer (b. 1924)
 2000 - Bettino Craxi, Italian politeecian, Prime meenister o Italy (b. 1934)
 2000 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrick actress, sangster an inventor (b. 1914)
 2008 - Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
 2010 - Bill McLaren, Scots rugby union commentator (b. 1923)
 2015 - Anne Kirkbride, Inglis actress (b. 1954)

 Halidays 
 Epiphany/Uphalyday (Eastern Orthodox Kirk)

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