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February 19

February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 315 days remaining, 316 in leap years.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 607 - Boniface III becomes Pope.
• 1674 - England and the Netherlands sign the Peace of Westminster. 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1942 - World War II: About 150 Japanese warplanes attack Darwin, Australia.
• 1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps.
• 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 approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
• 1959 - The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence.
• 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 Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital.
• 1985 - A Spanish Boeing 747 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148
• 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 Center.
• 2002 - NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.

Births

• 1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer, (d. 1543)
• 1660 - Friedrich Hoffmann, physician and chemist, (d. 1742)
• 1717 - David Garrick, actor, (d. 1779)
• 1743 - Luigi Boccherini, italian classical music performer, (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)
• 1865 - Sven Hedin, scientist, (d. 1952)
• 1876 - Constantin Brancusi, sculptor, (d. 1957)
• 1877 - Gabriele Münter, painter, member of Blaue Reiter, (d. 1962)
• 1911 - Merle Oberon, actress, (d. 1979)
• 1912 - Stan Kenton, musician, (d. 1979)
• 1917 - Carson McCullers, author, (d. 1967)
• 1924 - Lee Marvin, actor, (d. 1987)
• 1939 - Alfredo Bryce-Echenique, Peruvian novelist
• 1940 - Smokey Robinson, musician
• 1943 - Mama Cass Elliot, singer, (d. 1974)
• 1949 - Dan Bunten, software developer, (d. 1998)
• 1952 - Amy Tan, novelist
• 1954 - Socrates, football player
• 1955 - Jeff Daniels, actor
• 1957 - Falco, singer, (d. 1998)
• 1960 - Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II
• 1963 - Seal, singer
• 1967 - Benicio Del Toro, actor

Deaths

• 1670 - King Frederick III of Denmark, (b. 1609)
• 1799 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor, (b. 1733)
• 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, author, (b. 1869)
• 1952 - Knut Hamsun, author, (b. 1859)
• 1980 - Bon Scott, musician ("AC/DC"), (b. 1946)
• 1997 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist political leader and revolutionary, (b. 1904)
• 2000 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist, (b. 1928)
• 2001 - Stanley Kramer, director, (b. 1913)
• 2001 - Priscilla Davis, former Fort Worth, Texas socialite, (b. 1942)
• 2003 - Johnny Paycheck, country music singer

Holidays and observances

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See also:

February 18 - February 20 - January 19 - March 19 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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