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National Popcorn Day January 19 | ||
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National Imagination Day January 19 | ||
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World Quark Day January 19 | ||
Also on January 19
🏛️ Public Holidays
US: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Also observed in: Wellington Anniversary Day (NZ)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Jewish: Rosh Chodesh Sh’vat ראש חודש שבט roshchodesh
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2014 — A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 soldiers and injures 38 others. ↗
- 2012 — The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI. ↗
- 2007 — Turkish-Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish... ↗
- 1999 — British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999. ↗
- 1997 — Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1994 — Matthias Ginter, German footballer
- 1993 — Erick Torres Padilla, Mexican footballer
- 1992 — Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
- 1992 — Logan Lerman, American actor
- 1991 — Corinna Harrer, German runner