On This Day In ...

• Jan 19 1773: After a couple of days trying to get further south, Captain James Cook leaves the edge of the pack ice and sails away to the northwest to look for the land recently reported discovered by Kerguelen.
• Jan 19 1840: Dumont D'Urville, commanding the Astrolabe and the Zelée, crosses the Antarctic Circle and sees land in the distance.
• Jan 19 1902: Sailing along the east coast of the Antarctic peninsula, the progress of Antarctic, under the command of Otto Nordenskjöld, was stopped by pack ice.
• Jan 19 1903: The Western Party returns to Discovery. Macfarlane appears to have fully recovered from his altitude sickness.
• Jan 19 1915: Endurance becomes firmly trapped in the pack-ice.
• Jan 19 1958: Vivian Fuchs and his party finally reach the American Base at the South Pole and meet up with Edmund Hillary.

• Jan 19 1925: Nina Bawden, novelist, born in Ilford, Essex, England.
• Jan 19 1946: Julian Barnes, novelist, born in Leicester, England.
• Jan 19 1958: Death of Robert Gibbings in Oxford, England, at the age of 68. He was a sculptor and artist especially known for his wood engraving illustrations of books and was the sometime owner of the Golden Cockerel Press.
• Jan 19 1968: Novelist Eden Robinson born in Haisla Nation Kitamaat Reserve, British Columbia, Canada.

• Jan 19 1853: World première performance of Guiseppe Verdi's opera It Trovatore, at the Teatro Apollo, Rome, Italy.
• Jan 19 1873: World première performance of Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Opus 33, by Camille Saint-Saëns, in Paris, France.
• Jan 19 1884: World première performance of Manon, an opera by Jules Massenet, at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, France.
• Jan 19 1922: Dan Gibson, sound recordist, born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• Jan 19 1955: Simon Rattle, conductor, born in Liverpool, England.
• Jan 19 1985: World première performance of Arvo Pärt's Te Deum, sung by the WDR Broadcast Choir, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, in Cologne, Germany. The piece was commissioned by WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk Radio).
• Jan 19 2010: Release of Angélique Kidjo's album Oyo.

• Jan 19 1833: Four boats, commanded by Captain FitzRoy, set sail along the Beagle Channel.
• Jan 19 1904: Birth of Pei Wenzhong (or Pei Wen-chung), vertebrate palaeontologist, in China. He is best known for his work at the Homo erectus site of Zhoukoudian, not far from Beijing.

• Jan 19 1822: William Joseph Christie, Hudson's Bay Company factor, born in Fort Albany, Ontario.
• Jan 19 1870: Donald Smith, special commissioner from the Government of Canada, addresses a general meeting of the people of the Red River Settlement, to state the intentions of the government towards the northwest.
• Jan 19 1886: Coldest day on record in Edmonton. Thermometers registered a temperature of -49.47°C.
• Jan 19 1939: Grant Notley, Alberta NDP leader, born in Didsbury, Alberta.

• Jan 19 1985: The Seasonal Trade: Holiday Gift and Greeting Cards exhibition opens.
• Jan 19 1989: Images of Alberta exhibition opens.
• Jan 19 1993: The Gilded Age Gallery opens.
• Jan 19 1997: Beartown in the Rockies exhibition closes.
• Jan 19 2011: Questions & Collections: Research at the Museum lecture series, second presentation: "Golden Opportunity: The Stories Behind the Dazzling Bralorne Gold Collection" given by Melissa Bowerman.
• Jan 19 2013: Cold Recall: Roald Amundsen's Reflections from the Northwest Passage exhibition opens in the Orientation Gallery.

This presentation has been compiled and is © 1998-2012 by
Alwynne B. Beaudoin (bluebulrush@gmail.com)
Last updated March 13, 2012
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