Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 19, 2021

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 * 649 – Conquest of the Western Turks: Kuchean forces surrendered after a siege, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in what is now Xinjiang, China.
 * 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila, the oldest extant church in the Philippines, was completed.
 * 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union was founded by the directors of the National Civil Liberties Bureau.
 * 1930 – In Watsonville, California, tensions between nativists and Filipino Americans escalated into riots that later spread to other cities in the state.
 * 1972 – The French newspaper L'Aurore revealed that the former Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, 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.
 * 1977 – Iva Toguri, convicted of treason for broadcasting Japanese propaganda, was granted a full pardon by U.S. president Gerald Ford.
 * 2006 – In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an Antonov An-24 aircraft operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.
 * 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| Giuseppe Millico |b|1737| Edgar Allan Poe |b|1809| Paul Cézanne |b|1839| Natacha Rambova |b|1897| Choor Singh |b|1911| Arthur Morris |b|1922| Francesca Woodman |d|1981| K. Sello Duiker |d|2005| Sarah Burke |d|2012