January 19: Theophany (Julian calendar)
San Agustin Church, Manila
- 1607 – San Agustin Church (pictured) in Manila, the oldest extant church in the Philippines, was completed.
- 1862 – American Civil War: In their first significant victory, Union forces defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Mill Springs near modern Nancy, Kentucky.
- 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberated the Łódź Ghetto; only 877 Jews of the initial population of 164,000 remained at that time.
- 1972 – The French newspaper l'Aurore revealed that the Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", had been found to be living in Peru.
- 2007 – Turkish-Armenian journalist and human rights activist Hrant Dink was assassinated by a Turkish nationalist.
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