
What happened on January 19 in history?
In 1431, Zheng He went to the West for the seventh (and final) time
In 1655, the Chinese Qing Dynasty poet Naran Zhide was born
1736 Watt, the inventor of the Watt steam engine, was born
1806 British troops occupy the Cape of Good Hope
1807 American military scientist Robert Edward Lee was born
1809 American writer Edgar Allan Poe is born
1817 José de San Martín liberates Argentina, Chile and Peru, formerly Spanish colonies of the Americas
1839 The Royal Marines land in Aden on the Arabian Peninsula, and Aden becomes a British colony
1853 The opera The Wandering Poet, composed by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, premiered in Rome
1895 The Japanese army landed at Chengshantou, Shandong
1903 France announces the first Tour de France
1903 German composer Boris Bracher is born
1917 U.S. Navy Grand Admiral George Dewey dies
1920 The United States Senate rejects membership in the League of Nations
In 1929, Liang Qichao, the main leader of the Penghu Reform Law and the main figure of the bourgeois reform faction, died
1934 Puppet Manchukuo resumed its imperial system under the direction of the Japanese Kwantung Army
In 1939, the famous Chinese physicist He Yujie died
1941 British troops attack The Italian territory of Eritrea
1942 Japanese invade Burma
1949 Cuba recognizes Israel
1949 The author of "Iron Stream", Zorafimović, dies
1960 Boeing 707 first opened to navigation
1966 Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India
In 1974, the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy and the Navy of the Republic of Vietnam fought the Battle of the Paracel Islands, and China gained control of the entire Paracel Islands
1977 The first and only ever snowfall in Miami, Florida, USA, also in the Bahamas
1977 Ikuko Toguri, considered the "Rose of Tokyo," receives amnesty from U.S. President Gerald Ford and her U.S. citizenship is restored
In 1979, the "HSBC" cargo ship arrived in Hong Kong carrying Vietnamese boat people
1983 Apple introduces the Lisa computer, the world's first personal computer to use a graphical user interface
1995 Bristol Air Flight 56C accident
In 2003, the main hall of Yuzhen Palace, one of the important components of the wudang mountain ancient building complex of "World Cultural Heritage", suddenly burst into flames, and the most valuable main hall was reduced to ashes
2004 The Japanese Self-Defense Forces begin stationed in Iraq
In 2005, Lee Myung-bak, the mayor of Seoul, South Korea, announced in Seoul that the name of the Chinese in Seoul would be changed to "Seoul" and that the term "Seoul" would no longer be used
2006 Li Li, former governor of Guizhou Province, dies
In 2006, the New Horizon space probe was launched at the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first probe to visit Pluto
In 2012, Kodak officially filed for bankruptcy protection with the U.S. government