Once Upon A Time – Jan 19 – 1966 – Indira Gandhi Elected India’s 4th Prime Minister

379 Theodosius installed as co-emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire

1812 Peninsular War: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo

1883 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey

1897 Mel Trotter staggers drunk through Chicago, determined to drown himself in Lake Michigan, but comes to the Pacific Garden Mission, enters, and is converted. Three years later, alcohol-free, he heads a rescue mission in Grand Rapids and eventually founds the Mel Trotter Mission.

1947 An outpouring of God’s Spirit follows a fervent prayer by the seminarian Raymond Buana Kibongui at the Undergraduate Bible Seminary of Ngouedi (in what is now known as the Republic of Congo). Swedish missionaries and Congolese seminarians and pastors had been praying for a spiritual revival.

1966 Indira Gandhi elected India’s 4th Prime Minister

2013 Calcium deposits are discovered on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover

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1955 “The Millionaire” TV program premieres on CBS

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1853 Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Il Trovatore” premieres in Rome

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2013 Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all seven of his Tour de France victories

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1935 Coopers Inc. sells the world’s first men’s briefs in Chicago, calls it the “Jockey”