What are the important events that happened on January 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 19: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 19 is the 19th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 346 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 6, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,954,080 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneadecagon’ day.
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Capricorn is the zodiac 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 10 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,412 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 19 Historical Events
- 1764 –John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
- 1788 –The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
- 1853 –Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
- 1917 –Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
- 1945 –World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź ghetto. Out 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.
- 1977 –President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. “Tokyo Rose”).
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on January 19?
- 1887 –Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943)
- 1913 –Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
- 1923 –Jean Stapleton, American actress
- 1953 –Richard Legendre, Canadian politician
- 1962 –Chris Sabo, American baseball player
- 1972 –Jon Fisher, American entrepreneur
- 1981 –Dimosthenis Manousakis, Greek footballer
- 1985 –Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine racing driver
- 1985 –Jake Allen, American football player
- 1992 –Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
Who died on January 19?
- 1878 –Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
- 1927 –Charlotte of Belgium (b. 1840)
- 1939 –Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1969 –Jan Palach, Czech student and political activist (suicide) (b. 1948)
- 1980 –William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1898)
- 2000 –Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress and inventor (b. 1913)
- 2005 –K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
- 2007 –Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1940)
- 2008 –Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
- 2010 –Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby commentator (b. 1923)
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