On this day …
January 19, 2015
- In 1861, Georgia seceded from the United States.
- In 1883, the first electric lighting system using overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, began service in Roselle, N.J.
- In 1915, George Claude patented the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
- In 1920, the U.S. Senate voted against joining the League of Nations.
- In 1937, aviator and businessman Howard Hughes set a speed record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
- In 1953, nearly 72 percent of all television sets in the United States tuned into I Love Lucy to see the episode about Lucy giving birth.
- In 1977, President Gerald Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D’Aquino, aka “Tokyo Rose.”
- In 1977, snow fell in Miami for the only time in the history of the city.
- In 1983, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was arrested in Bolivia.
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