Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 19

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 * 1511 – War of the League of Cambrai: Troops led by Pope Julius II captured Mirandola after a brief siege.
 * 1795 – The Batavian Republic was established the day after William V fled the Dutch Republic as a result of the Batavian Revolution in Amsterdam.
 * 1915 – World War I: The first major attack of the German bombing campaign against Britain took place when Zeppelins bombed several towns in Norfolk.
 * 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union was founded by the directors of the National Civil Liberties Bureau.
 * 1972 – The French newspaper L'Aurore revealed that the former Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie (pictured), the "Butcher of Lyon", had been found to be living in Peru.
 * 1975 – An earthquake registering 6.8 Ms struck northern Himachal Pradesh in India, causing extensive damage to the region.
 * 2001 – The key of Majulah Singapura, the national anthem of Singapore, was changed to F major.
 * 2007 – Turkish-Armenian journalist and human-rights activist Hrant Dink was assassinated by a Turkish nationalist in Istanbul.
 * 2007 – A four-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a 1093 mi trek to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, the first people to get there since 1967, and the first to do so on foot.
 * 2012 – The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.
 * Born/died: | Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger |d|1636| Edgar Allan Poe |b|1809| Thomas Willing |d|1821| Herbert Chapman |b|1878|  Natacha Rambova |b|1897| Arthur Morris |b|1922| Francesca Woodman |d|1981| K. Sello Duiker |d|2005| Abdul Ghani Azhari  |d|2023