January 19

On This Day In History
	1966: Rule in India transferred to Indira Gandhi Following the sudden death of Indian Premier Lal Bahadur Shastri eight days earlier, Indira Gandhi became prime minister of India on this day in 1966, assuming the office first held by her father, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Indira Gandhi campaigning for the premiership of India, spring 1971.
Biography Of The Day
	Paul Cézanne French painter Paul Cézanne, who was born this day in 1839 and whose works and ideas influenced the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists and art movements, was one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists.
The Basket of Apples, oil on canvas by Paul Cézanne, c. 1895; ?
More Events On This Day In History
	1955 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower held the first-ever televised presidential press conference.
1883	1883 In the North Sea the German steamer Cimbria collided with the British steamer Sultan and sank, killing 340.
	1853 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore premiered in Rome.
1825	1825 Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett obtained a patent for a preservation process used to store food in tin cans.
	1809 Edgar Allan Poe, an American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre, was born.
	1807 Confederate General Robert E. Lee was born in Stratford, Virginia.