Wednesday, January 19, 2011

January 19

TrackYearEventArtistSongAlbum
11419Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.The CureOne Hundred YearsPornography
21764John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.HeroinLeaveHeroin
31829Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.RadioheadFaust ArpIn Rainbows
41853Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.London Symphony Orchestra and ChorusAnvil Chorus, Il Trovatore, Act IIGreat Opera Choruses
51883The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.The MicrophonesWires and CordsTests
61893Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.GongMaster BuilderYou (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 3)
71915Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.BjörkAll Neon LikeHomogenic
81935Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.AtmosphereBrief DescriptionOvecast!
9195368% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.The HolliesRubber LucyHollies
101969Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.Shai HuludSet Your Body AblazeA Profound Hatred of Man
111977Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in the Bahamas.FoalsMiamiTotal Life Forever
121983The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.CressidaLisaAsylum

(Historical facts about January 19 are from Wikipedia.)

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