Reuters historical calendar - January 19

London, Jan 18 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on January 19 since 1900: 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 had died on January 11. Shastri had succeeded Gandhi's father, Jawaharlal Nehru.

1975 - Twenty people were injured at Paris's Orly Airport in a battle that erupted after Arab gunmen attempted a grenade attack on an El Al jumbo jet and seized three hostages.

1983 - Klaus Barbie, the notorious Nazi SS chief in Lyon in German-occupied France in World War Two, was arrested in Bolivia.

1998 - Honduras and El Salvador signed an accord formally ending a border dispute that had once led them to war.

2000 - Italy's disgraced former prime minister, Bettino Craxi, died in exile in Tunisia.

2001 - The United States lifted economic sanctions against Yugoslavia in one of President Bill Clinton's last orders.

2002 - Martti Miettunen, who served in several Finnish governments from the 1950s to the late 1970s and was twice prime minister, died aged 94.

2003 - Francoise Giroud, a pioneering journalist who served as France's first minister of women's affairs, died at 86.

Giroud, a prolific writer on politics, sex and feminism, was editor-in-chief of the women's magazine Elle before co-founding the leading news weekly L'Express in 1953.

2004 - The International Atomic Energy Agency agreed with the United States and Britain that it would oversee the dismantling of Libya's atomic arms programme.

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