January 19

My mouth will tell of your righteousness,
of your salvation all day long, NIV
 

– Psalm 71:15 

January is:

• National Be On Purpose Month - Put your New Year's resolutions into action. Act with purpose! Sponsor: U.S. Partners.
  
  
• National Book Blitz Month - Encourages authors to promote their own books. Sponsor: Barbara Gaughen PR.
  
  
• National Eye Care Month - Educate the public to seek medical care at the earliest sign of eye trouble, to prevent blindness. Sponsor: The Optic Foundation.

Today is:

• Black Publishers Day - Celebrated on the birthday of John H. Johnson (1918). He was editor and publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines. On this day we honor all black publishers.
  
  
• Confederate Heroes Day - On the birthday of General Robert E. Lee (1807), Confederate heroes are honored. In some states this public holiday is celebrated on the third Monday in January.
  
  
• Horror Novels are Horrendous Day - Celebrated on the birthday (1809) of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was the author of numerous horror tales. On this day we honor all horror novelists.
  
  
• Tin Can Day - The tin can process was patented on this day in 1825.

Born on this Day

• 1544: Francis II, King of France
  

• 1736: Scottish engineer James Watt, inventor of the steam engine
  

• 1807: Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee
  

• 1809: American short story writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe
  

• 1813: English metallurgist Henry Bessemer
  

• 1839: Paul Cezanne, painter
  

• 19??: Wes King
  

• 1908: Comic singer Ish Kabibble (Merwyn Bogue) He sang and played trumpet with Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge; big bandleader; combo: The Shy Guys
  

• 1917: Actor-singer John Raitt
  

• 1922: Actor Guy Madison
  

• 1923: Actress Jean (Murray) Stapleton Beloved as Edith Bunker, the "dingbat", good-hearted wife of Archie Bunker on "All in the Family" (CBS, 1971-79).
  

• 1926: Actor Fritz Weaver (Holocaust, Marathon Man, Black Sunday)
  

• 1931: Actress Tippi (Natalie) Hedren (The Birds, Deadly Spygames, Harrad Experiment, Pacific Heights)
  

• 1931: Former P-B-S newsman Robert MacNeil
  

• 1932: Movie director Richard Lester
  

• 1935: Actress Tippi Hedren
  

• 1939: Singer Phil Everly of The Everly Brothers with brother, Don. (Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie, All I Have to Do is Dream, Bird Dog, Cathy’s Clown)
  

• 1942: Actor-singer Michael Crawford
  

• 1943: Singer Janis Joplin (Piece of My Heart, How Hard It Is, Pearl, Me and Bobby McGee)
  

• 1944: Actress Shelley Fabares
  

• 1946: Country singer Dolly Parton
  

• 1946: ABC newswoman Ann Compton
  

• 1949: Singer Robert Palmer
  

• 1951: Singer Harry McGilberry (Temptations)
  

• 1953: Actor Desi Arnaz Junior
  

• 1956: Actress Katey Sagal
  

• 1957: Reggae musician Mickey Virtue (UB40)
  

• 1961: Actor Paul McCrane
  

• 1961: Actor William Ragsdale Actor William Ragsdale is 39 His best known feature film is the popular teen horror comedy "Fright Night" (1985) where he literally plays the boy-next-door – in this case, next door to a vampire
  

• 1966: Tennis player Stefan Edberg
  

• 1969: Singer Trey Lorenz
  

• 1971: Actor Shawn Wayans
  

• 1971: Rock singer-musician John Wozniak (Marcy Playground)
  

• 1978: Singer A.J. McLean (Backstreet Boys)
  

• 1982: Actress Jodie Sweetin ("Full House")             

Events in History on this day
  

 

• 1160: Kidnapping of the retired Japanese Emperor
  

• 1419: In the Hundred Years War between England and France, the French city of Rouen surrendered to Henry V thus completing his conquest of Normandy.
  

• 1523: Ulrich Zwingli published his "67 Articles"
  

• 1568: Death of Miles Coverdale, 80, publisher of the first printed English Bible.
  

• 1576: Hans Sachs died. He was a master singer in the city of Nuremburg and the inspiration for Wagner's opera, "Die Meistersinger."
  

• 1629: Death of Abbas, Shah of Persia
  

• 1648: Charles I, King of England, brought to trial
  

• 1807: Robert E. Lee, the commander-in-chief of the Confederate armies, was born in Stratford, Virginia.
  

• 1825: Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City patented a canning process to preserve salmon, oysters and lobsters.
  

• 1853: Verdi's "Il Trovatore" premiered in Rome drew a big crowd despite urban flooding.
  

• 1861: Georgia seceded from the Union.
  

• 1899: Britain and Egypt established joint control over Sudan.
  

• 1901: Queen Victoria of England is stricken by paralysis.
  

• 1902: The Imperial Government of China declares that it cannot meet reparation payments for the Boxer Rebellion.
  

• 1903: 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
  

• 1903: A new bicycle race called the Tour de France was announced.
  

• 1905: U.S. Secretary of State John Hay secures an agreement with Britain, France and Italy to prevent the partition of China following the Russo-Japanese War.
  

• 1906: Luke Wright becomes the 1st U.S. Ambassador to Japan.
  

• 1911: John Philip Sousa was conducting a concert of his music in Britain when part of the stage collapsed and he fell through it.
  People who were in the audience reported that Sousa simply climbed back onto the stage, said, ``We will now continue,'' and did.
  

• 1915: The first casualties to result from an air raid over Britain occurred when a Zeppelin dropped six bombs on Great Yarmouth. Two people died and three were injured.
  

• 1915: George Claude, of Paris, France, patented the neon tube, advertising sign.
  

• 1922: A geological survey indicated that America's oil supply would be depleted in 20 years.
  

• 1923: The French announce the invention of a new gun with a range of 56 miles.
  

• 1931: The Wickersham Committee issues a report asking for revisions in the dry law, but no repeal.
  

• 1937: Howard Hughes flies from Los Angeles to New York in seven hours and 22 minutes.
  

• 1944: The federal government relinquished control of the nation's railroads following settlement of a wage dispute.
  

• 1949: The Chiang Government moves the capital of China to Canton.
  

• 1950: Communist Chinese leader Mao recognizes the Republic of Vietnam. 1953" Sixty-eight percent of all TV sets in the U.S. were tuned to CBS-TV, as Lucy Ricardo, of I Love Lucy, gave birth to a baby boy. In real life she actually gave birth to "Little Ricky" following the script to the letter. The audience for the program was greater than that watching the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower the following day. In fact, the Lucille Ball ‘baby’ story knocked the inauguration off the front page of many major newspapers.
  

• 1955: A presidential news conference was filmed for television for the first time, with permission from President Eisenhower.
  

• 1955: The board game Scrabble was introduced.
  

• 1957: Philadelphia comedian, Ernie Kovacs, became a major star, when he was able to pull off the challenge of doing a half-hour TV show without saying a single word of dialogue.
  

• 1959: SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES by The Platters peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart.
  

• 1966: Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India.
  

• 1970: President Nixon nominated G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court; however, the nomination was defeated because of controversy over Carswell's past racial views.
  

• 1971: HELTER SKELTER by The Beatles was played at the Charles Manson trial.
  

• 1971: Officials report that the U.S. is flying helicopter missions for Laos troops.
  

• 1971: Actress Ruby Keeler made her comeback in the play, "No, No Nanette", which opened at the 46th Street Theatre in New York City. Keeler played the role of Sue Smith in the revival of the 1925 hit musical.
  

• 1977: President Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who had been convicted of treason for her World War II Japanese propaganda broadcasts as Tokyo Rose.
  

• 1977: Jimmy Carter's presidential inaugural festivities included a concert featuring Aretha Franklin, Linda Ronstadt and Loretta Lynn on stage...and John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul Simon and Gregg Allman in the audience.
  

• 1979: Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell was released on parole after serving 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama.
  

• 1980: Michael Jackson received his first gold record...for ``Off the Wall.''
  

• 1981: The United States and Iran signed an agreement paving the way for the release of 52 Americans held hostage for more than 14 months.
  

• 1983: Klaus Barbie, notorious SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-occupied France, was arrested in Bolivia.
  

• 1987: Amy Carter, daughter of former President Jimmy Carter, was charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct in a demonstration at the University of Massachusetts.
  

• 1988: State Farm Insurance Company in California announced it had agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by three former employees.
  

• 1989: President Reagan pardoned George Steinbrenner for providing Richard Nixon with illegal funds.
  

• 1989: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted unanimously to recommend that the full Senate approve the nomination of James A. Baker to be secretary of state.
  

• 1990: Arthur J. Goldberg, former Supreme Court justice, labor secretary and US Ambassador to the United Nations, was found dead in his Washington apartment at age 81.
  

• 1991: During the Gulf War, Israel's anti-missile force was boosted by additional Patriot missile batteries and U.S. crews. A second Iraqi missile attack caused 29 injuries in Tel Aviv. Allied forces began bombarding Iraq's elite Republican Guard. 
  

• 1993: Celebrities ranging from Barbra Streisand to Michael Jackson to a reunited Fleetwood Mac threw a nationally televised pre-inaugural bash for president-elect Bill Clinton.
  

• 1993: Attorney General-designate Zoe Baird apologized to the Senate Judiciary Committee for hiring illegal aliens as domestic help. The first American combat troops flew home from their humanitarian mission in Somalia.
  

• 1994: Tonya Harding's former husband, Jeff Gillooly, was arrested and charged with conspiracy in the attack two weeks earlier on skater Nancy Kerrigan.
  

• 1994: President Clinton visited quake-stricken Los Angeles, where he pledged fast and aggressive federal help.
  

• 1995: Russian troops regained control of the presidential palace in Grozny, the capital of the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
  

• 1996: Four-day hijack of the Black Sea ferry Avrasya by pro-Chechen gunmen ended near Istanbul without a shot being fired with the surrender of the attackers who had threatened to blow up themselves and their 200 hostages. 
  

• 1996: The Bosnian peace agreement suffered its first setback as a planned nationwide prisoner release fell far short of its goal. 
  

• 1997: Yasser Arafat returned to Hebron for the first time in more than 30 years, joining 60,000 Palestinians in celebrating the handover of the last West Bank city from Israeli control.
  

• 1997: Albania, riot police beat demonstrators demanding restitution for money lost in pyramid schemes.
  

• 1997: "The English Patient" won best picture and "Evita" won in the category of best movie musical or comedy at the Golden Globes.
  

• 1998: During a ceremony in Atlanta commemorating the Martin Luther King Junior holiday, Vice President Gore announced that the Clinton administration would propose increasing spending on civil rights by 86 million dollars.
  

• 1998: "Rockabilly" pioneer Carl Perkins died in Jackson, Tennessee, at age 65.
  

• 1999: President Clinton delivered his State of the Union address, in which he proposed to protect Social Security by using huge budget surpluses and announced the government would sue the tobacco industry for smokers' health costs. Hours earlier, at the president's impeachment trial in the Senate, White House Counsel Charles Ruff opened the defense with ridiculous ringing statements of Clinton's innocence.
  

• 2000: A dormitory fire at Seton Hall University in New Jersey killed three people and injured 62.
  

• 2000: Michael Skakel, a nephew of Robert F. Kennedy, was charged with bludgeoning to death 15-year-old Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Conn., in 1975, when he was also 15.  
  

• 2000: Bettino Craxi, Italy's longest-serving premier during the postwar years, died in Tunisia at age 65. 
  

• 2000: Actress Hedy Lamarr was found dead in her Orlando, Fla., home; she was 86. 
  

 

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