Wednesday 19 January 2011

On This Day - 19th January


1807 - Robert E. Lee born
1809 - Edgar Allan Poe born
1839 - Paul Cezanne born
1922 - Guy Madison born
1923 - Jean Stapleton born
1931 - Tippi Hedren born
1939 - Phil Everly born
1942 - Michael Crawford born
1943 - Janis Joplin born
1944 - Shelley Fabares born
1946 - Dolly Parton born
1949 - Robert Palmer born
1952 - Dewey Bunnell born
1953 - Desi Arnaz born
1961 - Paul McCrane born
1966 - The only daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, becomes the first woman prime minister of India
1969 - Wendy Moniz and Junior Seau born
1971 - Shawn Wayans born
1973 - A super tug is sent to protect British trawlers from Icelandic patrol boats as the dispute over cod fishing rights intensifies
1980 - Jenson Button born
1982 - Jodie Sweetin born
1988 - Writer Christopher Nolan, who cannot move or speak because of an accident at birth, wins the Whitbread Book of the Year prize
1990 - Police in Johannesburg armed with batons and dogs break up a demonstration against the rebel cricketers who are defying a ban on playing in segregated South Africa
2001 - The American twin girls at the centre of an internet adoption scandal are seized from a hotel in north Wales and taken into care

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