History for January 19 - On-This-Day.com
James Watt 1736 - Inventor, mechanical engineer, chemist, Robert E. Lee 1807 - Confederate General during U.S. Civil War, Edgar Allen Poe 1809 - Writer, editor, poet
Janis Joplin 1943 - Singer, songwriter, Dolly Parton 1946 - Singer, Katy Sagal 1956 - Actress (TV: Married...with Children), singer
1915 - More than 20 people were killed when German zeppelins bombed England for the first time. The bombs were dropped on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn.
1983 - China announced that it was bannning 1983 purchases of cotton, soybeans and chemical fibers from the United States.
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