^B{^#!16!19 January^N! Feast day of St Canute IV of Denmark, Saints Abachum and Audifax, St Fillan or Foelan, St Albert of Cashel, St Charles of Sezze, St Germanicus, Saints Marius and Martha, St Messalina, St Henry of Uppsala, St Nathalan, and St Wulfstan.
^B{1764^B} John Wilkes was expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. ^B{1793^B} King Louis XVI was tried by the French Convention, found guilty of treason and sentenced to the guillotine. ^B{1853^B} Verdi's opera ^I{Il Trovatore^I} was first staged in Rome. ^B{1915^B} More than 20 people were killed when German zeppelins bombed England for the first time; the bombs were dropped on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn. ^B{1942^B} The Japanese invaded Burma (now Myanmar). ^B{1966^B} Indira Gandhi became prime minister of India. ^B{1969^B} In protest against the Russian invasion of 1968, Czech student Jan Palach set himself alight in Prague's Wenceslas Square. ^B{1993^B} IBM announced a loss of $4.97 billion for 1992, the largest single-year loss in US corporate history.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}James Watt, Scottish inventor, ^B{1736^B}; Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet, ^B{1809^B}; Paul CΘzanne, French painter, ^B{1839^B}; Janis Joplin, US rock singer, ^B{1943^B}; Dolly Parton, US country singer, ^B{1946^B}; Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player, ^B{1966^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Hans Sachs, German poet and composer, ^B{1576^B}; William Congreve, English dramatist, ^B{1729^B}; Louis HΘrold, French composer, ^B{1833^B}; Pierre Joseph Proudhon, French journalist and anarchist, ^B{1865^B}; Bhagwam Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru, ^B{1990^B}.
