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Daily Almanac: Jan. 19, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 8:06 a.m.

SET: 5:51 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 39 °F

Low: 37 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• Artist as Outlaw Day

• Brew a Potion Day

• Good Memory Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1915 Georges Claude patents his neon discharge tube

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

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

Births On This Day

• 1946 Dolly Parton

American singer-songwriter

• 1839 Paul Cézanne

French painter

Deaths On This Day

• 2015 Adam Yahiye Gadahn

American terrorist

• 2007 Hrant Dink

Turkish/Armenian journalist