On this day in history - January 19

What Happened On This Day – January 19

• 2007 Turkish journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated

  The murderer was a 17-year old Turkish nationalist who disagreed with Dink's view on the Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

• 1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia

  Barbie was known as the “Butcher of Lyon”.

• 1966 Indira Gandhi becomes India's first female prime minister

  She was assassinated on October 31, 1984.

• 1915 Georges Claude patents his neon discharge tube

  Neon lighting soon became popular for outdoor advertising.

• 1829 Goethe's “Faust” (Part 1) is premiered

  The work is considered one of the greatest works of German literature.