01-19-2008, 06:41 PM
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January 19th
1807 ~ Birthday of Robert E. Lee, General, Army of Northern Virginia, CSA.
1809 ~ Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, Poet & short story Author.
1839 ~ Birthday of Paul Cézanne, Painter.
1853 ~ Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premiered.
1937 ~ Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record by flying from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just under 7 ˝ hours.
1943 ~ Birthday of Janis Joplin, Blues/Rock Singer.
1966 ~ Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India.
1977 ~ President Gerald Ford pardoned Tokyo Rose.
1983 ~ The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, was announced..
1983 ~ Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was arrested in Bolivia.
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