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* 19 January: Swiss yacht Alinghi, skippered by Russell Coutts, beats Oracle BMW Racing 4-1 to win the Louis Vuitton Cup off Auckland and goes on to challenge Team New Zealand for the America's Cup.
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19 and January
The preliminaries ended with the publication of Steele's Crisis on January 19, and from that point on the fight proceeded at a rapid pace.
The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.
On January 19, 1862, the ill-prepared Confederates, after a night march in the rain, attacked the Union force with some initial success.
On January 19, 1879, Alcott and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn wrote a prospectus for a new school which they distributed to potentially interested people throughout the country.
Alexis Korner ( 19 April 1928 — 1 January 1984 ) was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as " a Founding Father of British Blues ".
Antoine Thomson d ' Abbadie d ' Arrast ( January 3, 1810 – March 19, 1897 ) was an Irish-French and Basque explorer, geographer, ethnologue, linguist and astronomer notable for his travels in Ethiopia during the first half of the 19th century.
HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey ( also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha ) () ( 14 July 1874 – 19 December 1944 ) was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan ( 8 January 1892 – 19 December 1914 ).
Lara suffered a fractured arm against the Leeward Islands in St Maarten on 19 January, which kept him out of the ICL season.
On January 19, 1976, the Internal Revenue Service notified the university that its tax exemption had been revoked retroactively to December 1, 1970.
A government formed of a coalition of the ODS, KDU-ČSL, and the Green Party ( SZ ), and led by the leader of the ODS Mirek Topolánek finally succeeded in winning a vote of confidence on 19 January 2007.
Charles I ( 19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649 ) was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
On 4 January 1982, Reagan signed the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 ( NSDD-17 ), giving the CIA the authority to recruit and support the contras with $ 19 million in military aid.
The process was caused by weakening of the Soviet government, which led to disintegration and took place from about 19 January 1990 to 31 December 1991.
The euro did not begin circulating until 2002 but the exchange rate was fixed on 19 June 2000, with legal introduction of the euro taking place in January 2002.
Dolly Rebecca Parton ( born January 19, 1946 ) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress, and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music.
There followed postings to a torpedo boat in July 1891 and then HMS Nile from 19 January 1892 to 23 June 1892 before returning to Britain.
* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath ( GCB )- January 1917 ( Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath ( KCB )- 19 June 1914 ; Companion of the Order of the Bath ( CB )- 19 June 1911 )
In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.
19 and Swiss
* February 19 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1906 )
* February 19 – Act of Mediation issued by Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the Swiss Confederation to replace the Helvetic Republic.
Of the 3, 171 who completed tertiary schooling, 39. 8 % were Swiss men, 25. 3 % were Swiss women, 19. 8 % were non-Swiss men and 15. 1 % were non-Swiss women.
Gottfried Keller ( July 19, 1819 – July 15, 1890 ), a Swiss writer of German-language literature, was best known for his novel Green Henry ().
Pierre Graber ( 6 December 1908 – 19 July 2003 ) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1970-1978 ).
John James ( Johann Jacob ) Heidegger ( 19 June 1666-5 September 1749 ) was a Swiss count and leading impresario of masquerades in the early part of the 18th century.
There is a record, however, of the manuscript of the speech of 18 June, which has been found in the archives of the Swiss intelligence agencies who published the text for their own uses on 19 June.
While the neighboring cantons of Schwyz and Nidwalden wanted to return to the organization of the Old Swiss Confederation, Uri was part of the Zurich-led party, which sought to reorganize the 19 cantons created by the Act.
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