19th January: Today In History

Today is Thursday, January, the 19th day of 2017. There are 346 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight In History;


Birthdays:
  1736James Watt, Scottish 'steam' inventor
  1747Johann Bode, German astronomer; formulated 'Bodes Law'
  1807Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general
  1809Edgar Allen Poe, American author and poet
  1943Janis Joplin, American rock singer
  1946Dolly Parton, US country singer & film actress
  1966Stefan Edberg, Swedish born tennis player

Events:

  1793King Louis XVI was sentenced to death by the French Convention
  1915German zeppelins bombed London for the first time in World War I
  1942Japanese forces invaded Burma during World War 2
  1962A Czech student set himself on fire in protest against the USSR
  1991The Presidential Palace in Iraq was attacked as the Gulf War began
  1992A new Bulgarian President was elected in the countries first free elections
  1999Former U.S. President, Jimmy Carter arrives Nigeria for talks with the Head of State on the democratization process.

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