
February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 315 days remaining, 316 in leap years. ==Events== * 607 - Pope Boniface III becomes Pope. * 1594 - Having already inherited the List of Polish rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, Sigismund III of Poland of the House of Vasa was coronation List of Swedish monarchs of Sweden, succeeding his father John III of Sweden. * 1674 - England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster (1674), ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it New York. * 1807 - In Alabama, Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason. * 1819 - British Empire exploration William Smith discovered the South Shetland Islands, and claimed them in the name of George III of the United Kingdom. * 1846 - In Austin, Texas the newly-formed Texas state government is officially installed. * 1847 - The Donner Party is rescued. It is noted that some of the survivors seem to be remarkably well-fed considering their ordeal. * 1852 - The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Washington and Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. * 1861 - Serfdom is abolished in Russia. * 1878 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison. * 1881 - Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages. * 1913 - Prizes are included in Cracker Jack candy boxes for the first time. * 1915 - World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli began. * 1941 - World War II: The Deutsches Afrikakorps, the corps-level headquarters controlling the German Panzer division (military)s in North Africa, was formed. * 1942 - World War II: About 150 Japanese warplanes attack Darwin, Northern Territory. * 1942 - World War II: President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order United States Executive Order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps. * 1943 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia began. * 1945 - World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima - about 30,000 United States Marines landed on Iwo Jima starting the battle. * 1949 - Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University. * 1953 - Censorship: Georgia (U.S. state) approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. * 1959 - The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence, which is then on formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960. * 1964 - Paul Simon writes "The Sounds of Silence," the song which, in a year and a half, will catapult him and Art Garfunkel to stardom as Simon & Garfunkel. * 1985 - Artificial heart patient William J. Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital. * 1985 - A Spanish Boeing 747 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148. * 1985 - EastEnders first airs on televisions across the United Kingdom, on the first night of a major ident change for BBC1. * 1986 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station. * 1986 - After waiting 37 years, the United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing genocide. * 1999 - Dennis Franz receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. * 2001 - A Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial. * 2002 - NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars (planet) using its thermal emission imaging system. * 2004 - Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal was awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity." ==Births== *1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer (d. 1543) *1626 - February 18/19 - Francesco Redi, physician (d. 1697) *1630 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha empire (d. 1680) *1660 - Friedrich Hoffmann, physician and chemist (d. 1742) *1717 - David Garrick, actor (d. 1779) *1743 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (d. 1805) *1802 - Wilhelm Matthias Näff, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1881) *1804 - David Wark, Canadian politician and Senator (d. 1905) *1821 - August Schleicher, linguist (d. 1868) *1859 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927) *1865 - Sven Hedin, scientist (d. 1952) *1876 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (d. 1957) *1877 - Gabriele Munter, painter (d. 1962) *1888 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (d. 1928) * 1898 - Enzo Ferrari, founder of Scuderia Ferrari (d. 1988) *1911 - Merle Oberon, actress (d. 1979) *1912 - Stan Kenton, American musician (d. 1979) *1916 - Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (d. 1997) *1917 - Carson McCullers, American author (d. 1967) *1920 - George Rose, British music hall entertainer (d. 1988) *1924 - David Bronstein, chess player *1924 - Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987) *1930 - John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002_ *1939 - Alfredo Bryce-Echenique, Peruvian novelist *1940 - Smokey Robinson, American musician *1942 - Paul Krause, American football player *1943 - Lou Christie, American singer *1945 - Michael Nader, American actor *1946 - Karen Silkwood, American activist (d. 1974) *1948 - Tony Iommi, British musician (Black Sabbath) *1948 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician *1949 - Dan Bunten, software developer (d. 1998) *1951 - Tahir-ul-Qadri, Islamic scholar and leader *1952 - Amy Tan, novelist *1953 - Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (d. 1994) *1954 - Socrates (football player), footballer *1955 - Jeff Daniels (actor), actor *1957 - Falco (musician), singer (d. 1998) * 1957 - Ray Winstone, British actor *1960 - Andrew, Duke of York, second son of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom *1962 - Hana Mandlikova, tennis player *1963 - Seal (singer), singer *1966 - Justine Bateman, actress *1966 - Paul Haarhuis, tennis player *1967 - Benicio Del Toro, actor *1979 - Eva-Maria Bisschop, Belgian pop star *1985 - Haylie Duff, American singer, actress *1986 - Maria Mena, Norwegian pop star ==Deaths== * 197 - Clodius Albinus, Roman governor of Britain *1553 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511) *1670 - King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609) *1709 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, fifth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (b. 1646) *1799 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b. 1733) *1837 - Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813) *1897 - Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (b. 1815) *1936 - Billy Mitchell, military aviation pioneer (b. 1879) *1942 - Frank Abbandando, Mafia hitman (executed) (b. 1910) *1951 - André Gide, French author (b. 1869) *1952 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859) *1969 - Madge Blake, American actress *1970 - Jules Munshin, American actor *1972 - Tedd Pierce, animator (b. 1906) * 1972 - John Grierson, documentary filmmaker (b. 1898) *1973 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892) *1975 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904) *1980 - Bon Scott, musician (AC/DC) (b. 1946) *1983 - Alice White, American film actress (b. 1904) *1997 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader and revolutionary (b. 1904) *1997 - Leo Rosten, Yiddish writer, humorist *1997 - Charles O. Finley, American sports entrepreneur *1998 - Grandpa Jones, country music entertainer, comedian *1999 - Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite leader, killed (b. 1943?) *2000 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928) *2001 - Priscilla Davis, Fort Worth, Texas socialite (b. 1942) * 2001 - Stanley Kramer, director (b. 1913) *2001 - Charles Trenet, French singer *2003 - Johnny Paycheck, country music singer *2004 - Clark Byers, American sign maker * 2004 - Hermann Krings, German philosopher ==Holidays and observances== *Chaoflux (Discordianism) *Astrology: First day of sun sign Pisces == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/19 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/2/19 Today in History: February 19] ---- February 18 - February 20 - January 19 - March 19 -- historical anniversaries bs:19. februar scn:19 di frivaru simple:February 19 th:19 กุมภาพันธ์
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February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 315 days remaining, 316 in leap years. ==Events== * 607 - Pope Boniface III becomes Pope. * 1594 - Having already inherited the List of Polish rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, Sigismund III of Poland of the House of Vasa was coronation List of Swedish monarchs of Sweden, succeeding his father John III of Sweden. * 1674 - England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster (1674), ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it New York. * 1807 - In Alabama, Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason. * 1819 - British Empire exploration William Smith discovered the South Shetland Islands, and claimed them in the name of George III of the United Kingdom. * 1846 - In Austin, Texas the newly-formed Texas state government is officially installed. * 1847 - The Donner Party is rescued. It is noted that some of the survivors seem to be remarkably well-fed considering their ordeal. * 1852 - The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Washington and Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. * 1861 - Serfdom is abolished in Russia. * 1878 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison. * 1881 - Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages. * 1913 - Prizes are included in Cracker Jack candy boxes for the first time. * 1915 - World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli began. * 1941 - World War II: The Deutsches Afrikakorps, the corps-level headquarters controlling the German Panzer division (military)s in North Africa, was formed. * 1942 - World War II: About 150 Japanese warplanes attack Darwin, Northern Territory. * 1942 - World War II: President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order United States Executive Order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps. * 1943 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia began. * 1945 - World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima - about 30,000 United States Marines landed on Iwo Jima starting the battle. * 1949 - Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University. * 1953 - Censorship: Georgia (U.S. state) approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. * 1959 - The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence, which is then on formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960. * 1964 - Paul Simon writes "The Sounds of Silence," the song which, in a year and a half, will catapult him and Art Garfunkel to stardom as Simon & Garfunkel. * 1985 - Artificial heart patient William J. Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital. * 1985 - A Spanish Boeing 747 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148. * 1985 - EastEnders first airs on televisions across the United Kingdom, on the first night of a major ident change for BBC1. * 1986 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station. * 1986 - After waiting 37 years, the United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing genocide. * 1999 - Dennis Franz receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. * 2001 - A Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial. * 2002 - NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars (planet) using its thermal emission imaging system. * 2004 - Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal was awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity." ==Births== *1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer (d. 1543) *1626 - February 18/19 - Francesco Redi, physician (d. 1697) *1630 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha empire (d. 1680) *1660 - Friedrich Hoffmann, physician and chemist (d. 1742) *1717 - David Garrick, actor (d. 1779) *1743 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (d. 1805) *1802 - Wilhelm Matthias Näff, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1881) *1804 - David Wark, Canadian politician and Senator (d. 1905) *1821 - August Schleicher, linguist (d. 1868) *1859 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927) *1865 - Sven Hedin, scientist (d. 1952) *1876 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (d. 1957) *1877 - Gabriele Munter, painter (d. 1962) *1888 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (d. 1928) * 1898 - Enzo Ferrari, founder of Scuderia Ferrari (d. 1988) *1911 - Merle Oberon, actress (d. 1979) *1912 - Stan Kenton, American musician (d. 1979) *1916 - Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (d. 1997) *1917 - Carson McCullers, American author (d. 1967) *1920 - George Rose, British music hall entertainer (d. 1988) *1924 - David Bronstein, chess player *1924 - Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987) *1930 - John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002_ *1939 - Alfredo Bryce-Echenique, Peruvian novelist *1940 - Smokey Robinson, American musician *1942 - Paul Krause, American football player *1943 - Lou Christie, American singer *1945 - Michael Nader, American actor *1946 - Karen Silkwood, American activist (d. 1974) *1948 - Tony Iommi, British musician (Black Sabbath) *1948 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician *1949 - Dan Bunten, software developer (d. 1998) *1951 - Tahir-ul-Qadri, Islamic scholar and leader *1952 - Amy Tan, novelist *1953 - Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (d. 1994) *1954 - Socrates (football player), footballer *1955 - Jeff Daniels (actor), actor *1957 - Falco (musician), singer (d. 1998) * 1957 - Ray Winstone, British actor *1960 - Andrew, Duke of York, second son of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom *1962 - Hana Mandlikova, tennis player *1963 - Seal (singer), singer *1966 - Justine Bateman, actress *1966 - Paul Haarhuis, tennis player *1967 - Benicio Del Toro, actor *1979 - Eva-Maria Bisschop, Belgian pop star *1985 - Haylie Duff, American singer, actress *1986 - Maria Mena, Norwegian pop star ==Deaths== * 197 - Clodius Albinus, Roman governor of Britain *1553 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511) *1670 - King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609) *1709 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, fifth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (b. 1646) *1799 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b. 1733) *1837 - Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813) *1897 - Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (b. 1815) *1936 - Billy Mitchell, military aviation pioneer (b. 1879) *1942 - Frank Abbandando, Mafia hitman (executed) (b. 1910) *1951 - André Gide, French author (b. 1869) *1952 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859) *1969 - Madge Blake, American actress *1970 - Jules Munshin, American actor *1972 - Tedd Pierce, animator (b. 1906) * 1972 - John Grierson, documentary filmmaker (b. 1898) *1973 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892) *1975 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904) *1980 - Bon Scott, musician (AC/DC) (b. 1946) *1983 - Alice White, American film actress (b. 1904) *1997 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader and revolutionary (b. 1904) *1997 - Leo Rosten, Yiddish writer, humorist *1997 - Charles O. Finley, American sports entrepreneur *1998 - Grandpa Jones, country music entertainer, comedian *1999 - Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite leader, killed (b. 1943?) *2000 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928) *2001 - Priscilla Davis, Fort Worth, Texas socialite (b. 1942) * 2001 - Stanley Kramer, director (b. 1913) *2001 - Charles Trenet, French singer *2003 - Johnny Paycheck, country music singer *2004 - Clark Byers, American sign maker * 2004 - Hermann Krings, German philosopher ==Holidays and observances== *Chaoflux (Discordianism) *Astrology: First day of sun sign Pisces == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/19 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/2/19 Today in History: February 19] ---- February 18 - February 20 - January 19 - March 19 -- historical anniversaries bs:19. februar scn:19 di frivaru simple:February 19 th:19 กุมภาพันธ์
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