Some things which happened on January 19

1945 - World War II: Soviet forces liberate the ghetto of Łódź. Out of 230,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived Nazi occupation. 
1949 - Cuba recognises Israel. 
1953 - 68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. 
1966 - Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India. 
1969 - Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest. 
1975 - Triple J begins broadcasting in Sydney, Australia. 

1982 - Shlomy Lederman born in Sydney Australia.