Today in History
January 19, 2002 - 0:0
1918 - The Russian constitutional assembly in Petrograd was dissolved by the Bolsheviks. 1938 - Hundreds died in Spain when General Franco's forces bombed Barcelona and other cities. 1966 - Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India in succession to Lal Shastri who died on January 11. Shastri had succeeded Gandhi's father, Jawaharlal Nehru. 1975 - Twenty people were injured at France's Paris-Orly airport in a battle which erupted after Arab gunmen attempted a grenade attack on an El Al jumbo jet and seized three hostages. 1983 - Klaus Barbie, notorious SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-occupied France, was arrested in Bolivia. 1998 - Honduras and El Salvador signed an accord formally ending a border dispute which once led them to war. 2001 - The United States lifted economic sanctions against Yugoslavia to set the seal on renewed U.S. ties with Yugoslavia in one of the last orders of president Clinton.