Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 19

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1839 - The Royal Marines landed at Aden to stop pirates from attacking British shipping to and from India. Aden was to remain under British control until 1967.
1935 - Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs, a new style of men's undergarment.
1977 - Iva Toguri, allegedly a Tokyo Rose, was granted a full pardon.
1983 - Apple Computer introduced the Apple Lisa, their first commercial personal computer with a graphical user interface and a computer mouse. It had 1 MB of RAM, and was priced at US $9,995.

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