29 Dey 1396

Events

• 1607 (419 years ago) San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
• 1817 (209 years ago) An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: HMS Greyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with all hands 64 kilometres (40 mi) northeast of Falkonera.
• 1966 (60 years ago) Indira Gandhi becomes India's first female prime minister.
• 1969 (57 years ago) Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
• 1981 (45 years ago) Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
• 1993 (33 years ago) Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.

Births

• 1736 (290 years ago) James Watt, Scottish chemist and engineer (died 1819)
• 1798 (228 years ago) Auguste Comte, French economist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1857)
• 1807 (219 years ago) Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (died 1870)
• 1809 (217 years ago) Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (died 1849)
• 1839 (187 years ago) Paul Cézanne, French painter (died 1906)
• 1920 (106 years ago) Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian politician and diplomat, 135th Prime Minister of Peru (died 2020)
• 1943 (83 years ago) Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (died 1970)
• 1946 (80 years ago) Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2026)

Deaths

• 639 (1387 years ago) Dagobert I, Frankish king (born 603)
• 1865 (161 years ago) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and politician (born 1809)
• 2000 (26 years ago) Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress, singer, and mathematician (born 1914)
• 2000 (26 years ago) Bettino Craxi, Italian lawyer and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1934)
• 2007 (19 years ago) Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist and activist (born 1954)
• 2008 (18 years ago) Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (born 1937)
• 2017 (9 years ago) Miguel Ferrer, American actor (born 1955)
• 2026 Valentino, Italian fashion designer, founder of Valentino (born 1932)

All 394 events, births and deaths of January 19