Template:On this day/January 19

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

January 19:

• 1807 – Robert E. Lee was born at Stratford Hall is a 1,500-acre plantation located in Westmoreland County on the Potomac River. Starting in 1889, this date was celebrated as a state holiday in his honor.
• 1940 – Motion picture director Frank Lloyd announced during a visit to Albemarle County that some scenes for his next movie project - based on the book “The Tree of Liberty” in which politics divide a Williamsburg couple as events lead to the Revolutionary War - would be filmed at Monticello.
• 1994 – The lowest temperature ever recorded in Charlottesville, Virginia was -10 °F.