January 19<\/p>\n
1810 \u2013 The temperature at Portsmouth, New Hampshire drops from 54\u00b0F to minus 12\u00b0F in one day.<\/p>\n
1817 \u2013 An army led by General Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 Georgia, Florida and Mississippi declare secession from the United States.<\/p>\n
1883 \u2013 The first city electric lighting system, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.<\/p>\n
1915 \u2013 French engineer Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.<\/p>\n
1920 \u2013 The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.<\/p>\n
1937 \u2013 Howard Hughes, flying his H-1 Racer, sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.<\/p>\n
1945 \u2013 During World War II, Soviet forces liberate the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 survive the Nazi occupation.<\/p>\n
1946 \u2013 General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.<\/p>\n
1960 \u2013 Japan and the U.S. sign the US\u2013Japan Mutual Security Treaty<\/p>\n
1977 \u2013 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D’Aquino a.k.a. Tokyo Rose<\/p>\n
1981 \u2013 United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.<\/p>\n
1983 \u2013 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.<\/p>\n
1991 \u2013 Over Iraq;
\nUSAF Cpts Rick Tuleni and Larry Pitts flying F-15s, each engage and shootdown Iraqi MiG-25 fighters.
\nUSAF Cpts Craig Underhill and Cesar Rodriguez, flying F-15s, each engage Iraqi MiG-29 fighters, with Underhill shooting down his MiG and Rodriguez’ dogfight maneuvers resulting in the Iraqi pilot flying into the ground in an attempt to evade him
\nUSAF Cpt David Prather and Lt David Sveden, flying F-15s, each engage and shootdown Iraqi Mirage F1 fighters
\nIraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.<\/p>\n
1996 \u2013 An engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia <\/em>and tank barge North Cape\u00a0<\/em> ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island causing a massive spill of over 800,000 gallons of heating oil.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 Retired Saint Louis Cardinal player, Stan Musial, dies, age 92, at his home in Ladue, Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 19 1810 \u2013 The temperature at Portsmouth, New Hampshire drops from 54\u00b0F to minus 12\u00b0F in one day. 1817 \u2013 An army led by General Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru. 1861 \u2013 Georgia, Florida and Mississippi declare secession from the United States. 1883 \u2013 … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63976"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89416,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63976\/revisions\/89416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}