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January 19: Ashura in Islam (2008)

1764 – English radical and politician John Wilkes was expelled from the British Parliament and declared an outlaw for seditious libel.
1817 – An army of over 5,400 soldiers led by General José de San Martín (pictured) crossed the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru from Spanish rule.
1839 – The Royal Marines landed at Aden to occupy the territory and stop attacks by pirates against the British East India Company's shipping to India. The city in present-day Yemen remained under British control until 1967.
1935 – In Chicago, Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs, a new style of men's undergarment.
1977 – Iva Toguri, allegedly a Tokyo Rose, a generic name given by Allied forces during World War II to approximately twenty English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda, was granted a full pardon by U.S. President Gerald Ford.

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