January 19

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1419	Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.	The Cure	One Hundred Years	Pornography
2	1764	John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.	Heroin	Leave	Heroin
3	1829	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.	Radiohead	Faust Arp	In Rainbows
4	1853	Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.	London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus	Anvil Chorus, Il Trovatore, Act II	Great Opera Choruses
5	1883	The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.	The Microphones	Wires and Cords	Tests
6	1893	Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.	Gong	Master Builder	You (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 3)
7	1915	Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.	Björk	All Neon Like	Homogenic
8	1935	Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.	Atmosphere	Brief Description	Ovecast!
9	1953	68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.	The Hollies	Rubber Lucy	Hollies
10	1969	Student 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 Hulud	Set Your Body Ablaze	A Profound Hatred of Man
11	1977	Snow 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.	Foals	Miami	Total Life Forever
12	1983	The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.	Cressida	Lisa	Asylum

(Historical facts about January 19 are from Wikipedia.)