Page 4: Historical Events In January - 19
Friday, 21 March 2025
1877 Charles Coburn, Savannah Ga, actor (Devil & Miss Jones) on this day in history.
1878 Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist, dies at 67 on this day in history.
1879 Marie Koenen, author/wife of Felix Rutten (Wassend Cereal) on January - 19.
1883 On January - 19 the first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1883 Hermann Abendroth, German conductor on this day in history.
1884 Jules Massenet's opera "Manon," premieres in Paris on January - 19.
1884 Albert Louis Wolff, composer on this day in history.
1885 Battle at Abu Klea Sudan 800-1000 killed on January - 19.
1885 Battle at Abu Klea Sudan: 800-1000 killed on January - 19.
1885 Fred Burnaby, English colonel/balloon pioneer, dies in battle on this day in history.
1886 Aurora Ski Club, first in US, founded in Minnesota on this day in history.
1886 On January - 19 aurora Ski Club, 1st in US, founded in Minnesota
1887 Alexander Woollcott, NJ, short story writer (Man Who Came to Dinner) on January - 19.
1892 Olafur Thors, Icelandic PM (6 times, 1942-63) on January - 19.
1893 Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin on this day in history.
1893 Julius Eichberg, composer, dies at 68 on January - 19.
1894 Francois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer, dies at 58 on this day in history.
1897 Natacha Rambova, Salt Lake City UT, costume designer on this day in history.
1898 On January - 19 brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game
1899 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms on this day in history.
1899 On January - 19 [John] Herbert Whitton Sumsion, organist/composer
1900 On January - 19 bubonic plague spreads from Adelaide to Sydney (103 were to die).
1902 On this day in history heinrich Schmist-Barrien, German author (Moorkeerl)
1903 On this day in history new bicycle race "Tour de France" announced
1903 The first regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England on January - 19.
1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England on January - 19.
1903 On this day in history alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur
1904 On this day in history james Winston Watts, developer (Frontal Lobotomy)
1905 Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer on January - 19.
1906 On this day in history gerhart Hauptmann's "Und Pippa Tanzt!," premieres in Berlin
1906 On this day in history ish Kabbible, [Merwyn Bogue], Penns, comedian (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
1907 Variety magazine publishes film reviews for the first time on this day in history.
1907 On January - 19 lillian Harvey, London England, actress (Invitation to the Waltz)
1909 On this day in history eugene Walter's "Easiest Way," premieres in NYC
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