Once Upon A Time – January 19 – 2013 – Calcium Deposits Discovered On Mars By NASA’s Curiosity Rover

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

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

1966 Indira Gandhi elected India’s 4th Prime Minister

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

Historical Events Today Events In 2022

Today In Film & TV

1955 “The Millionaire” TV program premieres on CBS

Today In Music

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

Today In Sport

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

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

Famous Weddings

1872 Physicist Wilhelm Röntgen (26) weds Anna Bertha Ludwig in Apeldoorn, Netherlands

1884 Painter Thomas Eakins (39) weds painter and photographer Susan Macdowell (32) in a Quaker ceremony

1957 Golfer Gary Player (21) weds Bobby Verwey’s sister Vivienne Verwey