Today in History
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2007 Turkish journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated
The murderer was a 17-year-old Turkish nationalist who disagreed with Dink on Turkey’s denial of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
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1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia
Barbie was known as the “Butcher of Lyon”.
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1966 Indira Gandhi becomes India’s first female prime minister
She was assassinated on October 31, 1984.
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1915 Georges Claude patents his neon discharge tube
Neon lighting soon became popular for outdoor advertising.
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1829 Goethe’s “Faust” (Part 1) is premiered
The work is considered one of the greatest works of German literature.
Births On This Day, January 19
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1946 Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter, actress
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1943 Janis Joplin
American singer-songwriter
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1839 Paul Cézanne
French painter
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1809 Edgar Allan Poe
American author, poet
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1807 Robert E. Lee
American general
Deaths On This Day, January 19
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2015 Adam Yahiye Gadahn
American terrorist
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2007 Hrant Dink
Turkish/Armenian journalist
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1990 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Indian mystic, guru, educator
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1874 August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
German poet
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1865 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French politician, philosopher, economist
