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UPI Almanac for Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025

On Jan. 19, 1861, Georgia voted to secede from the Union and joined the Confederacy.

By United Press International
On January 19, 1861, Georgia voted to secede from the Union and joined the Confederacy. The vote was held at the Old State Capitol in Milledgeville, Ga., pictured in 1937. File Photo by L.D. Andrew/Wikimedia
1 of 4 | On January 19, 1861, Georgia voted to secede from the Union and joined the Confederacy. The vote was held at the Old State Capitol in Milledgeville, Ga., pictured in 1937. File Photo by L.D. Andrew/Wikimedia

Today is Sunday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2025 with 346 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.

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Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. They include engineer James Watt in 1736; Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in 1807; writer Edgar Allan Poe in 1809; artist Paul Cezanne in 1839; publisher John H. Johnson in 1918; former U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar in 1920; writer Patricia Highsmith in 1921; actor Jean Stapleton in 1923; actor Tippi Hedren in 1930 (age 95); TV newscaster Robert MacNeil in 1931; musician Phil Everly in 1939; musician/actor Michael Crawford in 1942 (age 83); musician Janis Joplin in 1943; actor Shelley Fabares in 1944 (age 81); musician/actor Dolly Parton in 1946 (age 79); chef Paula Deen in 1947 (age 78); musician Dewey Bunnell (America) in 1952 (age 73); musician/actor Desi Arnaz Jr. in 1953 (age 72); artist Cindy Sherman in 1954 (age 71); actor Katey Sagal in 1954 (age 71); comedian Paul Rodriguez in 1955 (70); musician Mickey Virtue (UB40) in 1957 (age 67); artist Thomas Kinkade in 1958; actor Paul McCrane in 1961 (age 64); writer Edwidge Danticat in 1969 (age 56); actor Shawn Wayans in 1971 (age 54); musician John Wozniak (Marcy Playground) in 1971 (age 54); actor Drea de Matteo in 1972 (age 53); comedian Frank Caliendo in 1974 (age 51); actor Jodie Sweetin in 1982 (age 43); Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in 1982 (age 43); filmmaker Damien Chazelle in 1985 (age 40); U.S. Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Shawn Johnson in 1992 (age 33); musician Mac Miller in 1992; actor Logan Lerman in 1992 (age 33); model Natalia Bryant in 2003 (age 22).

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On this date in history:

In 1861, Georgia voted to secede from the Union and joined the Confederacy.

In 1920, threats against the life of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, because of his activities in suppressing criminal radicalism, led officials to take every precaution to guard the head of the Justice Department.

In 1938, the Spanish Nationalist air force bombed Barcelona and Valencia, killing 700 civilians and wounding hundreds more.

In 1961, President Eisenhower met with his successor, John F. Kennedy, to complete plans for the transition of power. Both met privately at first before conferring with the incoming and outgoing secretaries of State, Treasury and Defense.

In 1966, Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India.

In 1975, China published a new Constitution that adopted the precepts and policies of Mao Zedong.

In 1977, U.S. President Gerald Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who had been convicted of treason for her World War II Japanese propaganda broadcasts as Tokyo Rose.

In 1983, police in Bolivia arrested Klaus Barbie, the so-called Butcher of Lyons. Barbie was a Nazi Gestapo chief accused of for the capture, torture and deaths of thousands of Jewish people and French resistance workers in Lyon, France.

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In 1995, Russian forces captured the presidential palace in the rebel republic of Chechnya.

In 2007, former U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, the only member of Congress to plead guilty in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. Ney was released after 17 months.

In 2024, a grand jury in New Mexico revived a criminal case against actor Alec Baldwin over the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust in 2021. A judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter case against Baldwin in July 2024.


A thought for the day: "Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals." -- American publisher John H. Johnson

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