On This Day: 19 Jan

TV Century 21 (City Magazines Ltd. / AP Films) #01 (23 Jan 1965)

First Appearances:

Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward in TV Century 21 (City Magazines Ltd. / AP Films) #01 (23 Jan 1965).
Sgt. Jim Garnet (Sergeant "Heavy") in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #435 (22 Jan 1983).

Births:

Tom Hood (1835)

Deaths:

Herbert Allingham (1936); Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, 1st Baronet (1937); Harry Hanan (1982); Richard E. Jennings (1997); Mike Docherty (2016)

Notable Events:

Lady Penelope made her debut in TV Century 21 in 1965. She wouldn't appear on television until 30 Sep that year, in the Thunderbirds episode Trapped in the Sky.
Neverwhere stage play began a run at Progress Theatre, Reading, in 2012.
The Sunday Post gave away a free comic celebrating Robert Burns in 2014, featuring The Broons.

On This Day: 20 Nov

Births:

Rob Cowan (1950); Anthony Williams (1962)

Deaths:

Tom Hood (1874); Flora Klickmann (1958)

Notable Events:

The sale of Glasgow-based John Watson & Co. (publisher of the first comic) was announced in 2012.