Wikipedia:Main Page history/2011 January 19

... that, in the early 1900s, the Brookside Mills textile factory (workers pictured) was Knoxville's largest employer?

... that the German dreadnought battleship SMS Thüringen destroyed the British armored cruiser HMS Black Prince at the Battle of Jutland?

... that the Icelandic census of 1703 was the first census to record the names, addresses, and ages of every inhabitant of a country, regardless of social class?

... that, while undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer, actor Peter Donaldson gave a series of acclaimed stage performances?

... that the Lucidarius, the first German language summa, written around 1190, was reprinted at least 25 times in two decades three hundred years later, between 1479 and 1499?

... that, as a result of the agitations carried out prior to the founding of the Farm Workers Union of Central Sweden in 1906, the annual wages of statare increased by approximately 40 SEK?

... that Bach used an obbligato bassoon in a duet of his cantata Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange? BWV 155, first performed in Weimar on 19 January 1716?

... that Daniel Balsam became enraged after he received unsolicited e-mails offering him breast enlargement products?

American politician Sargent Shriver (pictured), the first director of the Peace Corps, dies at the age of 95.

The 2011 Dakar Rally concludes in Buenos Aires.

At least 100 people are killed and another 90 injured in a stampede at Sabarimala in Kerala, India.

President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali leaves Tunisia following nationwide protests and Fouad Mebazaa becomes the acting president.

More than 700 people are killed by flooding and mudslides in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.

South Korea starts to cull approximately 12 percent of all domestic pigs in the country after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila, the oldest church in the Philippines, was completed.

1795 – A day after William V, Prince of Orange (pictured), fled the Dutch Republic as a result of the Batavian Revolution, the Batavian Republic was established.

1862 – American Civil War: In their first significant victory, Union forces defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Mill Springs in Wayne and Pulaski counties, near current Nancy, Kentucky.

1917 – Approximately 50 tons of TNT exploded at a munitions factory in Silvertown in West Ham, present-day Greater London, killing over 70 people and injuring over 400 others.

1935 – In Chicago, Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs, a new style of men's undergarment.

2007 – Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was assassinated by a Turkish nationalist for his statements on the Armenian Genocide.