January 19, 1809 - Edgar Allen Poe, poet and author, is born.

January 19, 1840 - Captain Charles Wilkes claims the eastern Antarctic coast for the United States.

January 19, 1847 - Mexicans in Taos, New Mexico kill the American-born governor, Charles Bent. They were angry about the behavior of the American soldiers who occupied the city.

January 19, 1903 - President Theodore Roosevelt exchanges greetings with King Edward VII in the first transatlantic radio broadcast between heads of state.

 

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January 19, 1904 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for an electric automobile.

January 19, 1937 - Howard Hughes flies a plane from Los Angeles to New York in 7 hrs., 22 minutes.

January 19, 1955 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower has his press conference filmed by NBC. It becomes the first presidential conference to be aired on TV.

January 19, 1966 - Following the death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister.

"Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood -- the virtues that made America." - Teddy Roosevelt