Historical events that took place on this date

Indira Gandhi was elected because the Prime Minister of India on 19 January 1966. AFP

It is essential for all of us to know in-depth about our historical past and additional educate the approaching generations about the identical. Today, as we stand within the 21st century, now we have left behind a ton of historic events that maintain significance and in addition performed a fantastic function in increase nations. With that mentioned, right now is 19 January 2023 and it’s the proper time to know in regards to the totally different events that took place on this date prior to now. From the switch of India’s rule to Indira Gandhi to Queen Victoria being ‘stricken with paralysis’, there are a number of such events that all of us should know.

19 January: Historic events

1901 – Queen Victoria was ‘stricken with paralysis’

It was late at night time on 19 January 1901 when the eighty-one-year-old Queen Victoria had a lethal paralytic assault. It was three days after which she handed away on 22 January 1901 at Osborne House together with her household beside her.

1955 – First-ever tv presidential press convention

On this date again in 1955, then-U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower carried out the first-ever televised presidential press convention. Notably, Eisenhower held the convention within the Indian Treaty Room within the Old Executive Office Building.

1966 – Indira Gandhi grew to become the Prime Minister of India

As a results of the sudden demise of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, a outstanding politician and the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi was elected because the Prime Minister of India on 19 January 1966. She went on to imagine workplace until 1977 after which once more from 1980 till her assassination in 1984.

1977 – Iva Toguri D’Aquino was relieved after being convicted of treason

Iva Toguri D’Aquino, a Japanese-American broadcaster from Japan to U.S. troops throughout World War II was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment and fined for the crime of treason in 1949. While she was launched in 1956, it was lengthy after that on 19 January 1977 when then-US president Gerald Ford pardoned her as he was satisfied that she was wrongly accused and convicted.

2012 – Megaupload was shut down by the US authorities

After the US Department of Justice indicted a ‘mega conspiracy’ involving a number of copyrights and frauds by individuals related to the positioning together with its proprietor, the favored file-sharing pc service Megaupload was shut down by the US authorities on 19 January 2012. This additionally led to a number of denial-of-service (DoS) assaults on a variety of internet sites belonging to the federal government.

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