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January 19 Historical Events

The following events took place on January 19. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 57 events. Showing 31 - 57.

  • 1941
    World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
  • 1942
    World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
  • 1945
    World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
  • 1946
    General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
  • 1949
    Cuba recognizes Israel.
  • 1953
    Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
  • 1960
    Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
  • 1969
    Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague’s Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
  • 1974
    China gain control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People’s Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
  • 1975
    An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
  • 1977
    President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. “Tokyo Rose”).
  • 1977
    Snow falls in Miami. 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 continues 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.
  • 1983
    The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
  • 1986
    The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
  • 1991
    Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
  • 1993
    Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
  • 1995
    After being struck by lightning the crew are forced to ditch Bristow Flight 56C. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
  • 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.
  • 1997
    Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
  • 1999
    British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
  • 2006
    The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
  • 2007
    Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper’s office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
  • 2012
    The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
  • 2014
    A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 soldiers and injures 38 others.

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