» » This day from the past, January 19th, is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 346 days remaining until the end of the year (347 in leap years). The day of the week is Monday. → 1419 - Hundred Years War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy. → 1649 - Quebec, Quebec - The first executioner in Canada, a pardoned criminal, performs his first assignment at Quebec on a 16 year old girl found guilty of theft. → 1736 - James Watt born, inventor: condensing steam engine; the watt, a unit of power, was named after him; dies Aug 19, 1819. → 1807 - Robert E. (Edward) Lee born, Civil War: Confederate General surrendered to the North’s General Ulysses S. Grant; died Oct 12, 1870 → 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe born, poet: The Raven; author of suspense tales: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall of the House of Usher; dies Oct 7, 1849. → 1810 - Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50°F (10°C). → 1825 - Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City patented a food storage process called the ‘canning’ process to preserve salmon, oysters and lobsters in tin cans. → 1840 - Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim). → 1843 - Sackville New Brunswick - Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy opens at Sackville, New Brunswick; now Mount Allison University. → 1857 - Grand Manan New Brunswick - Vessel ‘Lord Ashburton’ wrecked on Grand Manan Island en route from France to Saint John; loss of 21 lives. → 1861 - Georgia becomes 5th state to secede. → 1871 - First Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey. → 1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. → 1883 - Heavy fog in the North Sea causes the collision of two steamers and the death of 357 people on this day. → 1886 - Aurora Ski Club, 1st in US, founded in Minnesota. → 1898 - Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game. → 1900 - Bubonic plague spreads from Adelaide to Sydney (103 were to die). → 1903 - New bicycle race Tour de France announced. → 1903 - First Transatlantic Radio broadcast took place. → 1907 - The first film reviews appeared in Variety magazine. → 1915 - George Claude of Paris, France patented the neon tube advertising sign. His handiwork was regularly seen adorning the Eiffel Tower and many pizza parlors throughout America. Now you can buy a neon sign for your in-home office at the discount warehouse. Probably not in one of George Claude’s wildest dreams. → 1915 - The first German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die. The bombs were dropped on Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn. → 1915 - ‘DOUBLEMINT’ gum was trademark registered. → 1922 - Geological survey says US oil supply would be depleted in 20 years. → 1923 - The French announce the invention of a new gun that has a firing range of 56 miles. → 1923 - Jean Stapleton born. Golden Globe-winning actress who gained widespread fame for playing the role of Edith Bunker on the television series, ‘All in the Family’. → 1925 - [-48°F] or (-44°C), Van Buren, Maine (state record). → 1929 - A toad known by the name of ‘Old Rip’ that lived in a Texas building for 31 years died on this day. As reported in a local Texas newspaper, this toad had lived quite a long time without food or water (at least not given to it). Furthermore, it is said that Old Rip was put in the cornerstone of the England County courthouse on purpose when it was built nearly 32 years ago. Freezing weather had been the cause of this animal’s death. → 1937 - Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record, flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds. → 1937 - Cy Young, Tris Speaker and Nap Lajoie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame. → 1938 - General Motors begins mass production of diesel engines. → 1939 - Phil Everly born, singer: The Everly Brothers [w/brother, Don]: Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie, All I Have to Do is Dream, Bird Dog, Cathy’s Clown; solo: When Will I Be Loved; radio host: In Session; dies Jan 3, 2014. → 1939 - Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 seconds. → 1943 - Janis Joplin born, singer: with Big Brother and The Holding Company: Piece of My Heart, How Hard It Is; Full Tilt Boogie Band: Pearl, Me and Bobby McGee; dies Oct 4, 1970. → 1946 - Dolly Parton born, songwriter, singer: ACM Entertainer of the Year [1977], CMA Entertainer of the year [1978]: Jolene, Coat of Many Colors, Here You Come Again, 9-to-5, You’re the Only One, [w/Kenny Rogers]: Islands in the Stream; Grand Ol’ Opry member; actress: 9-to-5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias; owns Dollywood amusement park in Tennessee. → 1946 - Army rocket plane XS-1 makes first powered flight. → 1949 - The salary of the President of the United States was increased from $75,000 to $100,000 with an additional $50,000 expense allowance added for each year in office. → 1950 - Maiden flight by Canadas Avro Canada CF-100 military plane. → 1952 - PGA approves allowing black participants. → 1952 - Slow Poke by Pee Wee King topped the charts. → 1953 - Sixty-eight percent of all TV sets in the U.S. were tuned to CBS-TV this day, as Lucy Ricardo of I Love Lucy gave birth to a baby boy -- just as she actually did in real life -- following the script to the letter! The audience for the program was greater than that watching the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower the following day. → 1954 - GM announces billion-dollar expansion. → 1955 - ‘The Millionaire’ TV program premieres on CBS-TV. → 1955 - Cadillac ‘Park Avenue’ on display in New York. → 1955 - The board game market would never be the same again - as Scrabble hits stores for the first time ever. → 1955 - U.S. President Eisenhower allowed a filmed news conference to be used on television (and in movie newsreels) for the first time. The 33-minute conference was cut to 28-1/2 minutes to fit TV formats. → 1957 - Philadelphia comedian, Ernie Kovacs, became a major star, when he was able to pull off the challenge of doing a half-hour TV show without uttering a single word of dialogue. → 1957 - 58 years ago - Johnny Cash makes his first national television appearance on ‘The Jackie Gleason Show’. → 1957 - Singing the Blues by Guy Mitchell topped the charts. → 1958 - Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League. → 1959 - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by the Platters topped the charts. → 1959 - Dick Clark’s American Bandstand was the number-one daytime TV show in the U.S. Remember Rate-A-Record? Three kids would listen and then rate a new song. Rankings went from 35 to 98. The usual comment, “It has a good beat and you can dance to it. → 1961 - First episode for The Dick Van Dyke Show is filmed. → 1963 - Chart Toppers - ‘Go Away Little Girl’ - Steve Lawrence; ‘Hotel Happiness’ - Brook Benton; ‘Tell Him’ - The Exciters; ‘The Ballad of Jed Clampett’ - Flatt & Scruggs. → 1967 - Lesly Gore appeared on ABC-TVs Batman as Catwomans sidekick, Pussycat. → 1970 - The soundtrack of the film, ‘Easy Rider’, the movie that made a star of Peter Fonda, became a gold record. It was the first pop-culture, film soundtrack to earn the gold award. → 1971 - Beatles Helter Skelter is played at Charles Manson trial. → 1972 - Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, and Early Wynn elected to Baseball Hall of Fame. → 1974 - Show and Tell by Al Wilson topped the charts. → 1976 - The Beatles turned down an offer of $50 million to play together again on the same stage. Rock promoter Bill Sargent was astonished when the group turned down the offer. → 1977 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas. → 1978 - The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VWs plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America will continue until 2003. → 1980 - Rock with You by Michael Jackson topped the charts. → 1981 - Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide. → 1982 - A heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Oklahoma, kills 6 kids & teacher. → 1982 - Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada announces 1981 inflation rate of 12.5%; a 33-year high. → 1983 - Klaus Barbie (“the butcher of Lyon”), Nazi Gestapo chief in Lyon, France during the German occupation, was arrested in Bolivia on charges of having tortured and killed thousands of people. After World War II, Barbie was protected and employed by U.S. intelligence agents because of his “police skills’ and anti-Communist zeal.” Barbie, together with his wife and children, then escaped to Latin America, where he worked primarily as an interrogator and torturer for dictatorships both in Peru and in Bolivia. He was tried in 1987 and died in prison in 1991. → 1983 - Apple announces The Apple Lisa the first commercial personal computer to have a graphical user interface GUI and a computer mouse. The Lisa was targeted at businesses and cost a massive $9,995 ( over $20,000 in todays money ) and because of its high cost never made the impact Apple hoped for. → 1983 - Cardinals infielder Ozzie Smith becomes baseballs first $1 million shortstop, signing a three-year contract. → 1985 - Born In The USA by Bruce Springsteen peaked at #9. → 1985 - Like a Virgin by Madonna topped the charts. → 1986 - The first virus program for the IBM PC appears, called the Brain. It infects the boot sector of 360 kB floppy disks. → 1988 - 48 Hours premiers on CBS-TV. → 1991 - Eastern Airlines shuts down operation; the airline ceased to exist, liquidated and faded into just a memory. → 1991 - Janet Jackson’s single, ‘Love Will Never Do (Without You)’, hit #1 (for one week) in the U.S. → 1993 - IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history. → 1993 - Production begins on Toy Story, the first full-length feature film created by the pioneering Pixar Animation Studios. Originally a branch of the filmmaker George Lucas’s visual effects company, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), Pixar first put itself on the map with special effects produced for films such as Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), which featured the first fully three-dimensional digital or computer-generated image (CGI). In 1986, Pixar became an independent company after it was purchased by Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Computer. → 1994 - State record low temperature of -36°F in New Whiteland, Indiana. → 1994 - State record low temperature of -37°F in Shelbyville, Kentucky. → 1996 - NHL approves move of Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix. → 1998 - Rock n roll pioneer Carl Perkins, whose hit song ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ helped lift Elvis Presley to stardom, dies aged 65. → 1998 - The CN line between Moncton, NB and Mont-Joli, Que is transferred to the Quebec Railway Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiaries as follows: New Brunswick East Coast Railway between Pacific Junction, near Moncton, and Campbellton, NB. Matapedia Railway between Campbellton, NB and Mont-Joli, QC. → 2006 - Wilson Pickett dies. Age: 64 years old. → 2007 - ‘The Storm Worm’ Trojan horse infects computers in Europe and the United States. → 2007 - Beijing, China, the capital city of the planets most populous nation, gets its first drive-through McDonalds restaurant. → 2008 - Suzanne Pleshette dies. Age: 70 years old. → 2010 - 4 years ago - James Cameron breaks his own Guinness World Record when ‘Avatar’ edges out ‘Titanic’ in reaching $500 million at the fastest - in just 32 days. → 2012 -The US Department of Justice has arrested the co-founders of one of the Internets largest file-sharing websites, ‘Megaupload’ and charged them with violating piracy laws. → 2013 - An Olympic torch took a spacewalk for the first time Saturday, carefully held by two Russian cosmonauts outside the International Space Station as it orbited some 260 miles above Earth. Video streamed by NASA showed Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazanskiy carrying the unlit torch of the Sochi games, which bobbed weightlessly at the end of a tether in a darkness dotted by stars. → 2013 - Calcium deposits are discovered on Mars by NASAs Curiosity Rover → 2013 - The 2012-2013 NHL season begins after a 119-day lockout. → 2013 - In Scottsdale, Arizona, the original Batmobile for the TV series Batman sold at auction for $4.6 million. It was the first of six Batmobiles produced for the show. → 2013 - Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all seven of his Tour de France victories. → Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...Ω
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