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January 19 in recent years ... 1944 – Thom Mayne, American architect and academic, ... Historical Events on January 19
January 10 – Amzie Strickland, actress (died 2006) January 13 – Robert Stack, actor (The Untouchables) (died 2003) January 14 – Andy Rooney, journalist (60 Minutes) (died 2011) January 23 – Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (died 1962) January 24 – Leon Kirchner, American composer (d. 2009) January 25
January – The Journal of Negro History is founded by Carter G. Woodson, the father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week". [1] January 24 In Browning, Montana, the temperature drops from +6.7 °C to −48.8 °C (44 °F to −56 °F) in one day, the greatest change ever on record for a 24-hour period. Brushaber v.
January 19 – Future film producer Samuel Goldwyn, born in Poland and later a resident of Germany and England, arrives in the United States at the age of sixteen as Szmuel Gelbfisz. January 20 – The Schurman Commission is created by President William McKinley to study the American approach to the sovereignty of the Philippines, ceded to the ...
January – The constitution of California is ratified. January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect: the Greenback is valued the same as gold for the first time since the American Civil War. February 12 – At New York City's Madison Square Garden, the first artificial ice rink in North America opens.
American Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783 Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 The Province of New Hampshire adopts a constitution for an independent State of New Hampshire , January 5, 1776
January 1 – Dwight Taylor, screenwriter and author (died 1986) January 27 – Otto P. Weyland, general (died 1979) March 7 – J. Allen Frear, Jr., United States Senator from Delaware from 1949 till 1961. (died 1993) April 19 – Eliot Ness, American Prohibition agent (died 1957)