THIS DAY IN #HISTORY 19/01

This day in #history 19/01
JANUARY 19TH

1668 – King Louis XIV & Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain

1793 – French King Louis XVI sentenced to death

1795 – Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends
oligarchy

1806 – Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope

1840 – Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim

1941 – British offensive in Eritrea

1941 – British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan

1942 – Japanese forces invade Burma

1966 – Indira Gandhi elected India’ s 3rd prime
minister

1981 – Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year
old out of committing

1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli- controlled West Bank city .

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, Boston , author ( Pit & the Pendulum)

1946 – Dolly Parton, Sevierville Tn, country singer (Dolly , 9 to 5)

FAMOUS DEATHS

1996 – Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer /South
African activist , dies at 70

FAMOUS WEDDING

2012 – Indian bollywood actress Deepshikha
Nagpal (34) weds Indian actor Kaishav Arora in
Mumbai

2013 – Figure skater five -time world champion
Michelle Kwan (32) weds director of strategic
planning on the National Security Clay Pell at the
First Unitarian Church of Providence , Rhode Island

2013 – ” Big Brother ” Daniele Donato (26 ) weds
Dominic Briones at the Newland House Museum
in Huntington Beach, California