Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 19

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  Apple Lisa
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  José de San Martín
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  John Wilkes
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  Prince William V of Orange
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  William V, Prince of Orange
• Charles Edward Stuart, aka Bonnie Prince Charlie
  Charles Edward Stuart, aka Bonnie Prince Charlie
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  San Agustin Church, Manila
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  Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload
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  Klaus Barbie

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Blurb	Reason
Theophany (Julian calendar)	refimprove section
649 – Conquest of the Western Turks: Kuchean forces surrendered after a siege, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China.	The article contradicts this statement:
1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila, the oldest extant church in the Philippines, was completed.	Too much uncited
1746 – During the Second Jacobite Rising, Bonnie Prince Charlie occupied the town of Stirling, Scotland, but failed to capture its castle.	refimprove sections
1764 – English radical and politician John Wilkes was expelled from the British Parliament and declared an outlaw for seditious libel.	refimprove section
1806 – The United Kingdom occupied the Cape of Good Hope for a second time after relinquishing control of the territory three years earlier.	unreferenced sections
1817 – An army of over 5,400 soldiers led by General José de San Martín crossed the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru from Spanish rule.	needs more footnotes
1839 – The Royal Marines landed at Aden to occupy the territory and stop attacks by pirates against the British East India Company's shipping to India. The city in present-day Yemen remained under British control until 1967.	refimprove
1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore was first performed at the Teatro Apollo in Rome.	original research
1862 – American Civil War: In their first significant victory, Union forces defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Mill Springs near modern Nancy, Kentucky.	refimprove section
1917 – Approximately 50 tons of TNT exploded at a munitions factory in Silvertown in West Ham, present-day Greater London, killing more than 70 people and injuring more than 400 others.	unreferenced section
1935 – In Chicago, Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs, a new style of men's undergarment.	briefs and undergarment both Template:Tl
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberated the Łódź Ghetto; only 877 Jews of the initial population of 164,000 remained there at that time.	refimprove section
1983 – Apple Inc. introduced the Apple Lisa, their first commercial personal computer with a graphical user interface and a computer mouse. It had 1 MB of RAM, and was priced at US$9,995.	original research
Paul Cézanne |b|1839|	Too much uncited
Marcel Chaput |d|1991	referencing issues

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• 1511 – War of the League of Cambrai: Troops led by Pope Julius II captured Mirandola after a brief siege.
• 1795 – The Batavian Republic was established the day after William V fled the Dutch Republic as a result of the Batavian Revolution in Amsterdam.
• 1915 – World War I: The first major attack of the German bombing campaign against Britain took place when Zeppelins bombed several towns in Norfolk.
• 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union was founded by the directors of the National Civil Liberties Bureau.
• 1972 – The French newspaper L'Aurore revealed that the former Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie (pictured), the "Butcher of Lyon", had been found to be living in Peru.
• 1975 – An earthquake registering Template:Nowrap struck northern Himachal Pradesh in India, causing extensive damage to the region.
• 2001 – The key of Majulah Singapura, the national anthem of Singapore, was changed to F major.
• 2007 – Turkish-Armenian journalist and human-rights activist Hrant Dink was assassinated by a Turkish nationalist in Istanbul.
• 2007 – A four-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a Template:Convert trek to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, the first people to get there since 1967, and the first to do so on foot.
• 2012 – The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.
• Born/died: | Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger |d|1636| Edgar Allan Poe |b|1809| Thomas Willing |d|1821| Herbert Chapman |b|1878| Natacha Rambova |b|1897| Arthur Morris |b|1922| Denise Narcisse-Mair |b|1940| Francesca Woodman |d|1981| Euan Blair |b|1984| [[K. Sello Duiker|Template:Nowrap Duiker]] |d|2005| Abdul Ghani Azhari |d|2023

Notes

• Death of Edgar Allan Poe appears on October 7, so his birthday should not appear soon after

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• 1419 – Hundred Years' War: The siege of Rouen ended with English troops capturing the city from Norman French forces.
• 1909 – A deed was recorded for David Hanbury to sell Island No. 2 in northern California to his brother John for $10 Template:USDCY.
• 1977 – Iva Toguri (pictured), convicted of treason for broadcasting Japanese propaganda, was granted a full pardon by U.S. president Gerald Ford.
• 1996 – A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in Rhode Island, causing a spill of an estimated 828,000 U.S. gallons (3.13 million litres) of home heating oil.
• 2006 – In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an [[Antonov An-24|Antonov Template:Nowrap]] operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.