THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012

Today is Thursday, January 19, the 19th day of 2012. There are 347 days left in the year.

1793 ― French King Louis XVI sentenced to death

1825 ― Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans

1829 ― Johann von Goethe's ``Faust, Part 1" premieres

1840 ― Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (U.S. claim)

1853 ― Verdi's opera ``Il Trovatore" premieres in Rome

1903 ― New bicycle race ``Tour de France" announced

1920 ― U.S. Senate votes against membership in League of Nations

1937 ― Cy Young, Tris Speaker and Nap Lajoie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1977 ― World's largest crowd (12.7 million) for Indian religious festival

1983 ― Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia