Holidays Calendar for January 19, 2028
The Eastern Orthodox Church and some Oriental Orthodox denominations still use the Julian calendar that falls 13 days behind the universally adopted Gregorian calendar, meaning that their fixed feasts are celebrated 13 days later than their Western counterparts. For example, Epiphany in Eastern Christianity falls on January 19 in the Gregorian calendar.
World Quark Day is celebrated every January 19 in honor of a dairy product that gets far less attention and praise than it deserves. Widely consumed in continental Europe, quark is rare in other parts of the world, and the holiday aims to rectify this.
January 19 is Rescuer's Day, that is observed by all men and women in the Republic of Belarus. This observance was created in 1998.
Kokborok Day is an annual observance held in the Indian state of Tripura on January 19. It celebrates the Kokborok language spoken by the indigenous communities of the state and commemorates its recognition as an official language of Tripura in 1979.
Museum Selfie Day, sometimes referred to as National Museum Selfie Day even though it is observed internationally, is celebrated annually on the third Wednesday of January. It was created to show how fun museums, art galleries, and other cultural institutions can be.
Confederate Memorial Day, also known as Confederate Heroes Day or Confederate Decoration Day in some states, is observed in the Southern United States to honor the memory of Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. It was originally observed on April 26 to commemorate the surrender of the Army of Tennessee at Bennett Place, but these days, its dates in different states vary from January 19 to the second Saturday of October.
Gaza Day is an annual remembrance day observed in Iran on the 29th of Dey in the Solar Hijri calendar, which usually coincides with January 19 in the Gregorian calendar. It was established to express solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle against Israeli occupation.
Popcorn is one of the greatest snacks ever. It's been a part of our lives for such a long time that we can't imagine watching movies without it. Celebrate National Popcorn Day on January 19.
Some items are so common we never give them a second thought, but without them our lives would be very different. Take tin cans, for example; their invention revolutionized the preservation of food and greatly contributed to food security. National Tin Can Day is celebrated on January 19 to highlight the importance of tin cans in our lives.
This Day in History
- 2013 An attempt to assassinate Ahmed Dogan, chairman of the Bulgarian political party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, on live television failed.
- 2012 Died: Sarah Burke, Canadian skier, a pioneer of the superpipe event, which was added to the Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Burke died after a serious injury sustained during training.
- 2006 Died: Wilson Pickett, American singer and songwriter, a major figure in the development of American soul music. Among his best known hits are "Mustang Sally", "Land of 1,000 Dances", "In the Midnight Hour", "Funky Broadway".
- 1992 Born: Logan Lerman, American actor. He is known for portraying the title role in the Percy Jackson films and for starring in the coming-of-age film The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
- 1990 Born: Shaunette Renée Wilson, Guyanese-born American actress known for playing Mina Okafor on The Resident and Agent Manson in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
- 1986 The First IBM PC computer virus Brain was released into the wild. Created by the Farooq Avi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, it infected the boot sector of storage media formatted with the DOS File Allocation Table file system.
- 1985 Born: Damien Chazelle, American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for directing the films Whiplash, La La Land, First Man, and Babylon.
- 1984 Died: Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player, one of six hockey-playing brothers. Bentley played for the Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs.
- 1983 The Apple Lisa, the first commercial PC from Apple Inc. to have graphical user interface and computer mouse, was announced.
- 1981 Born: Elizabeth Tulloch, American actress best known for playing Juliette Silverton and Eve on Grimm and Lois Lane on Superman & Lois and in the Arrowverse crossover events.
- 1977 Snow fell in Miami, Florida. This was the only time in the history of the city that snow had fallen. By the way, snow also fell in the Bahamas.
- 1976 Born: Marsha Thomason, English actress best known for playing Sara Evers in The Haunted Mansion, Naomi Dorrit on Lost, and Diana Berrigan on White Collar.
- 1969 Died: Jan Palach, Czech student and activist. Palach committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring.
- 1953 71.7% of TVs in the United States were tuned to watch "Lucy Goes to the Hospital", the episode of I Love Lucy where Lucy gives birth to her son.
- 1948 Died: Tony Garnier, French architect and city planner, who was most active in Lyon, his hometown. Among Garnier's most prominent works is the Stade de Gerland, a stadium in Lyon.
- 1946 Born: Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress known for her long and prolific career in country music. She has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
- 1944 Born: Thom Mayne, American architect, designer of the San Francisco Federal Building and Phare Tower.
- 1943 Born: Janis Joplin, American singer and songwriter. Her voice made her famous in her 20s. She is recognized as one of the greatest rock singers of all the time. Joplin died at 27, apparently of a drug overdose.
- 1937 Howard Hughes set a new air record by flying from LA to NY in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
- 1917 73 were killed and 400 injured in an explosion at a munitions plant in Silvertown, now part of the London Borough of Newham.
- 1915 A neon discharge tube for use in advertising was patented by Georges Claude.
- 1883 The first electric lighting system began service at Roselle, New Jersey. This system was built by Thomas Edison and included overhead wires.
- 1874 Died: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and scholar, best known for writing Das Lied der Deutschen. Its third stanza is now the national anthem of Germany.
- 1869 Died: Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher. He is best known for discoveries of eupione, waxy paraffin, pittacal and phenol.
- 1851 Died: Esteban Echeverría, Argentinian poet and author. He played a significant role in the development of Argentine literature and is regarded as one of Latin America's most important Romantic authors.
- 1851 Born: Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer, best known for his studies of the Milky Way. He was the first discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation.
- 1839 Born: Paul Cézanne, French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century.
- 1829 Faust Part 1 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe received its premier performance.
- 1809 Born: Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet. Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of short story. Today he is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.
- 1808 Born: Lysander Spooner, American philosopher and individualist anarchist, known for competing with the U.S. Post Office with his American Letter Mail Company that was forced out of business by the U.S. Government.
- 1799 Died: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher. She wrote the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
- 1798 Born: Auguste Comte, French philosopher, known as the founder of the discipline of sociology and the doctrine of positivism.
- 1755 Died: Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist. He is best known for this proposal to reverse the Celsius thermometer scale from water boiling at 0 degrees to 100 degrees and ice melting at 100 degrees to 0 degrees.
- 1736 Born: James Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor. He made fundamental improvements to the Newcomen steam engine and developed the concept of horsepower. The SI unit of power, the watt, was named after him.