Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 19
This is a list of selected January 19 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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| 1806 – The United Kingdom occupied the Cape of Good Hope for a second time after relinquishing control of the territory three years earlier. | {{refimprove}} |
| 1817 – An army of over 5,400 soldiers led by General José de San Martín crossed the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru from Spanish rule. | {{more footnotes}} |
| 1839 – The Royal Marines landed at Aden to occupy the territory and stop attacks by pirates against the British East India Company's shipping to India. The city in present-day Yemen remained under British control until 1967. | {{refimprove}} |
| 1935 – In Chicago, Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs, a new style of men's undergarment. | briefs and undergarment both {{refimprove}} |
| 1977 – Iva Toguri, allegedly a Tokyo Rose, a generic name given by Allied forces during World War II to approximately twenty English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda, was granted a full pardon by U.S. President Gerald Ford. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1983 – Apple Inc. introduced the Apple Lisa, their first commercial personal computer with a graphical user interface and a computer mouse. It had 1 MB of RAM, and was priced at US$9,995. | Tagged with {{or}}, {{refimprove}} |
Eligible
- 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila, the oldest church in the Philippines, was completed.
- 1764 – English radical and politician John Wilkes was expelled from the British Parliament and declared an outlaw for seditious libel.
- 1795 – A day after William V, Prince of Orange, fled the Dutch Republic as a result of the Batavian Revolution, the Batavian Republic was established.
- 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore was first performed at the Teatro Apollo in Rome.
- 1975 – A magnitude 6.8 Ms earthquake struck northern Himachal Pradesh, India, causing extensive damage to the region.
- 1983 – The Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie was arrested in Bolivia, 32 years after the US Army Counterintelligence Corps helped him flee to Argentina.
- 2006 – In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an Antonov An-24 aircraft operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.
- 2007 – Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was assassinated by a Turkish nationalist for his statements on the Armenian Genocide.
January 19: Theophany (Julian calendar)
- 649 – War against the Western Turks: The forces of Kucha surrendered after a siege led by Tang Dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in what is now Xinjiang.
- 1746 – During the Second Jacobite Rising, Bonnie Prince Charlie (pictured) occupied the town of Stirling, Scotland, but failed to capture its castle.
- 1862 – American Civil War: In their first significant victory, Union forces defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Mill Springs near modern Nancy, Kentucky.
- 1917 – Approximately 50 tons of TNT exploded at a munitions factory in Silvertown in West Ham, present-day Greater London, killing more than 70 people and injuring more than 400 others.
- 1996 – A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, US, spilling an estimated 828,000 US gallons (3,130,000 L) of home heating oil.