19 January

January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 346 days remain until the end of the year.

We have some interesting facts & historic events all about January 19^th, including areas in religion, crime, health and more.

Keep reading for more interesting facts about January 19^th in history!

Table of Contents

1. Global Celebrations
2. Historic Events
3. Famous Birthdays
4. Heartbreaking Deaths

Global Celebrations

• National Popcorn Day
• Tin Can Day

Historic Events

What Happened On This Day – January 19

2007: Turkish journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated

The murderer was a 17-year old Turkish nationalist who disagreed with Dink’s view on the Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

1983: Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia

Barbie was known as the “Butcher of Lyon”.

1966: Indira Gandhi becomes India’s first female prime minister

She was assassinated on October 31, 1984.

1915: Georges Claude patents his neon discharge tube

Neon lighting soon became popular for outdoor advertising.

1829: Goethe’s “Faust” (Part 1) is premiered

The work is considered one of the greatest works of German literature.

1943: Starving mother with her child on a Kolkata(then Calcutta) street in British colonial India, Bengal famine 1943

1940: Finnish soldier with the captured Russian soldiers during Winter War, 1940

1924: An unconscious Babe Ruth, after running into a wall chasing after a foul ball during the first game of a doubleheader with the Washington Senators – 1924

1923: Portrait of the dancer Lore Sello in the role of a ‘Game clock’ in the cabaret ‘Die Gondel’, Frieda G. Riess, 1923

1914: William Harvey and Arthur Davidson, two of the founders of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, 1914

1913: Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph in dress uniform, 100th year anniversary of Battle of Nations, Vienna 1913 [Colorized]

1911: A young Franklin Delano Roosevelt wearing pince-nez, 1911

1903 : A view taken of the the Cliff House from the Parapet at Sutro Heights, Adolph Sutro’s estate, San Francisco 1903

1900s: Moroccan Jewish woman in traditional Keswa ElKbira (early 1900s)

1863 : Soldiers of Company B, U.S. Engineer Battalion with wagons in the background, Petersburg, VA circa 1863.

Famous Birthdays

Births On This Day, January 19

1946: Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter, actress

1943: Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter

1839: Paul Cézanne, French painter

1809: Edgar Allan Poe, American author, poet

1807: Robert E. Lee, American general

Heartbreaking Deaths

Deaths On This Day, January 19

2015: Adam Yahiye Gadahn, American terrorist

2007: Hrant Dink, Turkish/Armenian journalist

1990: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian mystic, guru, educator

1874: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet

1865: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French politician, philosopher, economist