Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 19
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This is a list of selected January 19 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.January 19: Ashura in Islam (2008)
- 1764 – English radical and politician John Wilkes was expelled from the British Parliament and declared an outlaw for seditious libel.
- 1817 – An army of over 5,400 soldiers led by General José de San Martín (pictured) crossed the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru from Spanish rule.
- 1839 – The Royal Marines landed at Aden to occupy the territory and stop attacks by pirates against the British East India Company's shipping to India. The city in present-day Yemen remained under British control until 1967.
- 1935 – In Chicago, Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs, a new style of men's undergarment.
- 1977 – Iva Toguri, allegedly a Tokyo Rose, a generic name given by Allied forces during World War II to approximately twenty English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda, was granted a full pardon by U.S. President Gerald Ford.
More events: January 18 – January 19 – January 20
