History for January 19

History for January 19 - On-This-Day.com
James Watt 1736, Robert E. Lee 1807 - Confederate General during U.S. Civil War, Edgar Allen Poe 1809 - Poet


Michael Crawford 1942, Janis Joplin 1943, Dolly Parton 1946 - Singer


1793 - King Louis XVI was tried by the French Convention, found guilty of treason and sentenced to the guillotine.


1825 - Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City patented a canning process to preserve salmon, oysters and lobsters.


1915 - More than 20 people were killed when German zeppelins bombed England for the first time. The bombs were dropped on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn.


1953 - Sixty-eight percent of all TV sets in the U.S. were tuned to CBS-TV, as Lucy Ricardo, of "I Love Lucy," gave birth to a baby boy.


1966 - Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India.


1977 - U.S. President Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino (the "Tokyo Rose").


1996 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury. The investigation was concerning the discovery of billing records related to the Whitewater real estate investment venture.


2006 - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was launched. The mission was the first to investigate Pluto.