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February 19 Gregorian Calendar . There are 315 days remaining, 316 in leap years .
Events
197 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum , the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.607 - Boniface III becomes Pope .1594 - Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland , Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden , succeeding his father John III of Sweden .1674 - England and the Netherlands sign the Peace of Westminster , 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 explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands , and claims them in the name of King George III .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 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 evel headquarters controlling the German Panzer divisions in North Africa , was formed.1942 - World War II : About 150 Japanese warplanes attack Darwin, Australia .1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066 United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps.1943 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.1945 - World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima - about 30,000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima .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 , 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 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 using its thermal emission imaging system.2004 - Nazi unter Simon Wiesenthal is awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity."
Births
1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus , Polish astronomer (d. 1543 )1526 - Charles de L'Ecluse , Flemish botanist (d. 1609 )1552 - Melchior Klesl , Austrian cardinal and statesman (d. 1630 )1630 - Shivaji , founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680 )1660 - Friedrich Hoffmann , German physician and chemist (d. 1742 )1717 - David Garrick , English actor (d. 1779 )1722 - Tiphaigne de la Roche , French writer (d. 1774 )1743 - Luigi Boccherini , Italian composer (d. 1805 )1802 - Wilhelm Matthias Näff , Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881)1804 - David Wark , Canadian politician and Senator (d. 1905 )1821 - August Schleicher , German linguist (d. 1868 )1833 - Élie Ducommun , Swiss journalist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1906 )1859 - Svante Arrhenius , Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927 )1865 - Sven Hedin , Swedish explorer (d. 1952 )1876 - Constantin Brancusi , Romanian sculptor (d. 1957 )1877 - Gabriele Münter , German painter (d. 1962 )1888 - José Eustasio Rivera , Colombian writer (d. 1928 )1893 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke , British actor (d. 1964 )1895 - Louis Calhern , American actor (d. 1956 )1899 - Yury Olesha , Russian novelist (d. 1960 )1900 - Giorgos Seferis , Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )1902 - Kay Boyle , American writer (d. 1992 )1911 - Merle Oberon , British actress (d. 1979 )1912 - Stan Kenton , American musician (d. 1979 )1914 - Jacques Dufilho , French comedian and actor (d. 2005 )1916 - Eddie Arcaro , American jockey (d. 1997 )1917 - Carson McCullers , American author (d. 1967 )1920 - Jaan Kross , Estonian writer1920 - George Rose , British music hall entertainer (d. 1988 )
1924 - David Bronstein , Ukrainian chess player1924 - Lee Marvin , American actor (d. 1987 )
1930 - John Frankenheimer , American film director (d. 2002 )1940 - Smokey Robinson , American musician1941 - David Gross , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate1942 - Paul Krause , American football player1943 - Lou Christie , American singer1945 - Michael Nader , American actor1946 - Karen Silkwood , American activist (d. 1974 )1948 - Tony Iommi , British musician (Black Sabbath )1948 - Pim Fortuyn , Dutch politician (d. 2002 )
1949 - Dan Bunten , American software developer (d. 1998 )1951 - Tahir-ul-Qadri , Islamic scholar and leader1951 - Stephen Nichols , American actor
1952 - Amy Tan , American novelist1953 - Massimo Troisi , Italian actor (d. 1994 )1954 - Socrates , Brazilian footballer1955 - Jeff Daniels , American actor1955 - Margaux Hemingway , American model and actress (d. 1996 )
1956 - Roderick MacKinnon , American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1957 - Falco , Austrian singer (d. 1998 )1957 - Ray Winstone , British actor
1960 - Andrew, Duke of York 1962 - Hana Mandlikova , Czech tennis player1963 - Seal , English singer1964 - Dmitri Lipskerov , Russian writer1966 - Justine Bateman , American actress1966 - Paul Haarhuis , Dutch tennis player
1967 - Benicio Del Toro , Puerto Rican actor1969 - Burton C. Bell , American vocalist (Fear Factory )1983 - Vitas , Russian singer1985 - Haylie Duff , American singer and actress1986 - Maria Mena , Norwegian singer
Deaths
197 - Clodius Albinus , Roman governor of Britain1133 - Irene Ducaena , wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066 )1553 - Erasmus Reinhold , German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511 )1605 - Orazio Vecchi , Italian composer (b. 1550 )1602 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur , French soldier (b. 1558 )1620 - Roemer Visscher , Dutch writer (b. 1547 )1622 - Henry Savile , English educator (b. 1549 )1653 - Luigi de Rossi , Italian composer (b. 1597 )1663 - Adam Adami , German bishop and diplomat (b. 1603 )1670 - King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609 )1672 - Charles Chauncy , English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592 )1709 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi , Japanese shogun (b. 1646 )1799 - Jean-Charles de Borda , French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b. 1733 )1837 - Georg Büchner , German playwright (b. 1813 )1887 - Multatuli , Dutch writer (b. 1820 )1897 - Karl Weierstraß , German mathematician (b. 1815 )1916 - Ernst Mach , Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838 )1927 - Robert Fuchs , Austrian composer (b. 1847 )1936 - Billy Mitchell , American general and military aviation pioneer (b. 1879 )1936 - Max Schreck , German actor (b. 1879 )
1942 - Frank Abbandando , American gangster (executed) (b. 1910 )1951 - André Gide , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869 )1952 - Knut Hamsun , Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859 )1969 - Madge Blake , American actress (b. 1899 )1972 - Tedd Pierce , American animator (b. 1906 )1972 - John Grierson , Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. 1898 )
1973 - Joseph Szigeti , Hungarian violinist (b. 1892 )1975 - Luigi Dallapiccola , Italian composer (b. 1904 )1980 - Bon Scott , Australian musician (AC/DC ) (b. 1946 )1983 - Alice White , American film actress (b. 1904 )1986 - Adolfo Celi , Italian actor (b. 1922 )1994 - Derek Jarman , British Film Director (b. 1942 )1997 - Deng Xiaoping , Chinese Communist leader and revolutionary (b. 1904 )1997 - Leo Rosten , American Yiddish writer and humorist (b. 1908 )
1997 - Charles O. Finley , American sports entrepreneur (b. 1918 )
1998 - Grandpa Jones , American banjo player and comedian (b. 1913 )1999 - Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr , Iraqi Shiite leader (assissinated)2000 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Austrian artist (b. 1928 )2001 - Priscilla Davis , American socialite (b. 1942 )2001 - Stanley Kramer , American director (b. 1913 )
2001 - Charles Trenet , French singer (b. 1913 )
2003 - Johnny Paycheck , American singer (b. 1938 )2004 - Clark Byers , American sign maker2004 - Hermann Krings, German philosopher
Holidays and observances
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