About January 19
January 19, 2024 is the 19th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 347 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 22 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 19
- 379 –Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
- 1520 –Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
- 1607 –San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
- 1795 –The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
- 1840 –Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
- 1853 –Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
- 1883 –The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
- 1899 –Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
- 1917 –Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
- 1942 –World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma
- 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.
- 1977 –President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. “Tokyo Rose”).
- 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 computer virus released into the wild is a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, 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.
- 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.
- 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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