It happened on this day, January 19

Events:
1268 – Muslims led by Al-Zahir Baibars recapture Jaffa from the Crusaders.
1511 – Mirandola goes to France.
1792 – The French National Assembly resulting from the French Revolution decides that King Louis XVI and his family will be executed for high treason.
1820 – The Emirate of Dubai is protected by the United Kingdom.
1839 – The British fleet, led by Hans, manages to occupy Aden, beginning a colonization that will last until 1967.
1883 – Thomas Edison puts the first electric lighting system into operation.
1899 – Britain separates Sudan from Egypt and declares Egyptian-Anglo Sudan.
1915 – German “Zeppelin airships” bomb the town of Yarmouth in the United Kingdom, killing 20 people, the first aerial bombing in history during the First World War.
1918 – The first fighting breaks out between the Red Guards and the White Guards during the Finnish Civil War.
1919 – Start of the Versailles Conference, which ends the First World War.
1941 – British forces attack the Italian colony of Eritrea during World War II.
1942 – Japanese forces occupy Burma during World War II.
1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel.
1956 – Sudan joins the League of Arab States.
1966 – Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India.
1975 – An earthquake in the Kashmir-Tibet border area, measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, leaves 42 dead, 40 injured and 2,500 people displaced. The tremor was felt in New Delhi in India, Lahore and Rawalpindi in Pakistan.
1977 – Snow fell for the first time on the city of Miami, Florida, the only time recorded in history.
1981 – The Irian earthquake, measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, occurs in Indonesia, killing 305 people and leaving around 1,000 missing in the mountains. Landslides buried many villages.
💥 Iranian and US officials sign agreement to release 52 detainees at the US embassy in Tehran.
1983 – Bolivia arrests Nazi officer Klaus Barbie.
1984 – The 1984 uprising in Morocco
1991 – Iraq fires a Scud missile at Israel, killing 15 people during the Second Gulf War.
1993 – The Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
1995 – An earthquake in Colombia measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale.
2007 – Turkish journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper headquarters for his constant demand to condemn the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Turks during World War I.
2009 – The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, inaugurates the first Arab economic, development and social summit of its kind in Kuwait, in the presence of 17 Arab presidents, the Secretary General of the United Nations United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the President of Senegal, Abdullah Wade, in his capacity as President of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
💥 A reconciliation meeting in Kuwait between the King of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, and the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, and between the President of Egypt, Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa , in the presence of the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad, the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Issa, and the King of Jordan, Abdullah II, after announcing the King of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, in his speech at the opening of the Arab Summit on Economy, Development and Social, declared that the differences between Arab countries had ended.
2011 – A strong earthquake struck southwest Pakistan, measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale, and was felt in various parts of Pakistan, India, Iran, Dubai and from Bahrain.
2011 – Joaquín Guzman Loera escapes from prison for the first time.
2017 – The Plasco building collapsed following a massive fire, killing 20 firefighters and injuring 70 others in the capital, Tehran.
💥 Military intervention in Gambia led by Sidiyao to force outgoing president Yahya Jammeh to cede his post to elected president Adama Barrow.
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Births:
1544 – Francis II, king of France.
1736 – James Watt, Scottish engineer.
1798 – Auguste Comte, French economist, sociologist and philosopher.
1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American poet and writer.
1813 – Henry Bessemer, British inventor and creator of the Bessemer method of making steel.
1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter.
1878 – Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager.
1912 – Leonid Kantrovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1975.
1919 – Wasfi al-Tall.
1920 – Javier Pérez de Cuellar, Peruvian politician and Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1943 – Ghazwa Al-Khalidi, Iraqi actress.
1959 – Magdy Al-Ebiary, Egyptian writer.
1964 – Saud Al-Shuraim, Saudi Quran reciter and imam of the Grand Mosque of Mecca.
1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player.
1968 – Matt Hill, Canadian actor.
1969 – Predrag Mijatović, Montenegrin footballer.
** Steve Staunton, Irish footballer.
1972 – Angham, Egyptian singer.
** Drea De Matto, American actress.
1977 – Laurin, Cameroonian footballer.
1980 – Mai Ezz El-Din, Egyptian actress.
1981 – Asier del Horno, Spanish footballer.
1984 – Hussein Yasser, Qatari footballer of Egyptian origin.
1986 – Salwa Al-Jarash, Bahraini singer and actress.
1991 – Hwang Eun-eob, Korean actor.
1992 – Shawn Johnson, American artistic gymnast.
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Death:
1302 – Al-Hakim Bi Amr Allah I, caliph of Cairo.
1595 – Sultan Murad III, Ottoman sultan.
1629 – Abbas I of the Safavids, the fifth Shawahin of the Safavid state.
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1970 – Hamza Homo, Bosnian writer and poet.
1979 – Salah Mansour, Egyptian actor.
1986 – Abdullah bin Omar bin Dahish, Hanbali jurist and Saudi judge.
1992 – Anwar Al-Baba, Syrian actor.
1993 – Esmat Abdel Aleem, Egyptian actress and singer.
2000 – Bettino Craxi, Italian Prime Minister.
2002 – Yahya Al-Alami, Egyptian director.
2006 – Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and cleric.
2007 – Hrant Dink, Turkish journalist.
2013 – Wahid Seif, Egyptian actor.
** Nabil Al-Hegrasy, Egyptian actor.
** Abdel Rahim El Comari, a Moroccan runner
** Taiho Kuki, Japanese wrestler.
2019 – Mai Mansi, Lebanese writer, journalist and novelist.
2021 – Sami Haddad, Palestinian journalist.
** Sadiq Hamid Alloush, Iraqi doctor, soldier and minister.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Sultan's Day according to the Bahá'í Faith.
⏪ Karaoke Day in Japan.