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   Today in History | OnThisDay.com to All   
   Today in History for 19th January 2019   
   19 Jan 19 04:29:29   
   
   From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@alt119.net.remove-wiz-this   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1955 - "Scrabble" debuts on board game market   
      
   1960 - Eisenhower and Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact   
      
   1967 - Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will "Vse Zene" (All to wife)   
      
   1996 - NHL Board of Governors approves sale of Winnipeg Jets, officially   
   clearing the way for the team to move to Phoenix, Arizona in time for 1996-97   
   season   
      
   2001 - Cult film "Donnie Darko" written and directed by Richard Kelly,   
   starring Jake Gyllenhaal premieres at the Sundance Film Festival   
      
   2013 - The 2012-2013 NHL season begins after a 119-day lockout   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1639 - Noel Alexandre, French theologian/historian   
      
   1679 - Girolamo Chiti, Italian composer and music theorist, born in Siena (d.   
   1759)   
      
   1813 - Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine)   
      
   1947 - Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur, born in Albany, Georgia   
      
   1971 - Maurice Hofman, Dutch soccer player (MVV), born in Maastricht,   
   Netherlands   
      
   1971 - Jeff Juden, American baseball pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies, SF   
   Giants), born in Salem, Massachusetts   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1547 - Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29   
      
   1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)   
      
   1945 - Ernest B Allo, French theologist, dies at 71   
      
   1964 - Joe Weatherly, American auto racer (NASCAR Sprint Cup champion   
   1962-63), dies of head injuries in race crash at 41   
      
   1980 - William O Douglas, member US Supreme court (1939-75), dies at 81   
      
   2013 - Stan Musial, American MLB hall of famer, dies from Alzheimer's disease   
   at 92   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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