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19 Feb 1512
French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia
19 Feb 1539
Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech) expelled
19 Feb 1574
Spanish troops plunder Krommenie Wormerveer & Jisp Netherlands
19 Feb 1600
Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in South American recorded history
19 Feb 1634
Battle of Smolensk King Wladyslaw IV of Poland beats Russians [NSMar 1]
19 Feb 1674
Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English)
19 Feb 1771
Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis & Hydra & galaxy in Virgo)
19 Feb 1803
US Congress accepts Ohios constitution statehood not ratified till 1953
19 Feb 1807
British squadron under Admiral Duckworth attempts to force passage of Dardanelles
19 Feb 1819
British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands and claims them in the name of King George III
19 Feb 1825
Franz Grillparzers Konig Ottokars Gluck premieres in Vienna
19 Feb 1831
1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run in Pennsylvania
19 Feb 1846
Texas state government formally installed in Austin
19 Feb 1852
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg Pennsylvania
19 Feb 1856
Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith Gambier Ohio
19 Feb 1864
Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington D.C. (12 members)
19 Feb 1881
Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
19 Feb 1884
Enigma outbreak of tornadoes in Mississippi Alabama North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Kentucky and Indiana kill 800 people
19 Feb 1906
Will Keith Kellogg and Charles D. Bolin found the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company now the multinational food manufacturer Kelloggs
19 Feb 1910
English premiere of Richard Strauss Elektra
19 Feb 1913
Mexican General Victoriano Huerta takes power with US support
19 Feb 1914
Riccardo Zandonais opera Francesco da Rimini premieres in Turin
19 Feb 1914
Four-year old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train from Grangeville Idaho to her grandparents house 73 miles away in most famous child in the post instance
19 Feb 1922
Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer
19 Feb 1927
General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai
19 Feb 1928
II Winter Olympic Games close at St Moritz Switzerland
19 Feb 1928
Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal
19 Feb 1928
Gillis Grafstrm of Sweden wins his 3rd consecutive Olympic mens figure skating gold medal at St. Moritz one of only 2 athletes to win gold at both Winter & Summer Games (won figure skating Antwerp 1920)
19 Feb 1928
Canada retains the Olympic ice hockey title when they rout Switzerland 13-0 in the final round in St. Moritz Canadian left-wing Dave Trottier top scores with 15 points
19 Feb 1928
World champion French team Andre Joly and Pierre Brunet win the Olympic pairs figure skating gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Games the couple marry in 1929 and take 2nd straight gold in 1932
19 Feb 1929
Medical diathermy machine 1st used Schenectady NY
19 Feb 1933
Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers
19 Feb 1934
US contract air mail service canceled replaced by US army for 6 months
19 Feb 1935
Clifford Odets Awake & Sing premieres in NYC
19 Feb 1938
Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated Denmark
19 Feb 1941
Nazi police attacked & driven away from Koco Amsterdam (by young Jews)
19 Feb 1941
Nazi raid Amsterdam & round up 429 young Jews for deportation
19 Feb 1942
About 150 Japanese warplanes attack the Australian city of Darwin
19 Feb 1942
Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo to become wrestling champ
19 Feb 1942
Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber
19 Feb 1942
Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded Ill Take Tallulah
19 Feb 1942
NY Yankees annouce 5000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games
19 Feb 1943
German tanks under Generalmajor Karl Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunisia
19 Feb 1945
980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island Burma
19 Feb 1946
Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the outlaw Mexican League
19 Feb 1947
CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasilieras No 3
19 Feb 1949
Inside USA closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances
19 Feb 1950
Groundbreaking ceremony held for Mississippi Vocational College (later Mississippi Valley State University)
19 Feb 1953
Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board
19 Feb 1955
South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect
19 Feb 1958
Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records
19 Feb 1959
Britain Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence
19 Feb 1959
USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph) NM
19 Feb 1960
Bil Keanes Family Circus cartoon strip debuts
19 Feb 1960
Swedish cross country skier Sixten Jernberg follows his 50k gold medal in Cortina dAmpezzo (1956) with victory in 30k event at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics
19 Feb 1960
Three time Canadian world champions Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul win the pairs figure skating Olympic gold medal at Squaw Valley CA
19 Feb 1961
Henk van der Grift (Neth) becomes world champ all-round skater
19 Feb 1964
UK flies ton of The Beatles wigs to the US
19 Feb 1967
Stien Kaiser becomes world champion ladys skater
19 Feb 1968
Mister Rogers Neighborhood debuts on NET (now PBS)
19 Feb 1970
AL Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking
19 Feb 1970
USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite
19 Feb 1971
Walt Wesley becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game
19 Feb 1972
Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223 v WI at Kingston
19 Feb 1972
The Asama-Sanso hostage standoff begins in Japan.
19 Feb 1973
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree single released by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (Billboard Song of the Year )
19 Feb 1974
1st American Music Awards Helen Reddy & Jim Croce win
19 Feb 1976
Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara
19 Feb 1977
19th Grammy Awards This Masquerade Starland Vocal Band
19 Feb 1977
As sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for 400000
19 Feb 1977
Doug Walters scores 250 v NZ 217 stand for 7th wicket with Gilmour
19 Feb 1977
Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner
19 Feb 1977
Right wing Rod Gilbert scores a goal and adds an assist in a 5-2 defeat at the NY Islanders to become first player in NY Rangers history (11th in NHL) to score 1000 career points
19 Feb 1978
On the 20th Century opens at St James Theater NYC for 460 performances
19 Feb 1978
Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (234.8)
19 Feb 1978
Coleman Comden & Greens musical premieres in NYC
19 Feb 1978
20th Daytona 500 Bobby Allison takes lead with 11 laps remaining lowest starting position (33rd) for winner until 2007
19 Feb 1980
Botham a century & 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay
19 Feb 1980
American speed skater Eric Heiden wins 1000m in Olympic record 115.18 third of record 5 gold medal sweep of events at Lake Placid
19 Feb 1980
Washington beats Montreal 3-1 to end the Canadiens 34 game unbeaten streak against Capitals Caps 0-32-2 against Montreal since entering NHL in 1974
19 Feb 1980
Swedish alpine skier Ingemar Stenmark wins the giant slalom from Andreas Wenzel of Liechtenstein at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics also takes slalom gold
19 Feb 1980
Ulrich Wehling of East Germany wins his third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the Nordic combined event at Lake Placid winner Sapporo (1972) Innsbruck (1976)
19 Feb 1982
Hanneke Jagersma installed as Neths 1st Communist mayor
19 Feb 1982
Sharie Langford California sets womens bowling series record of 853
19 Feb 1983
Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of 1 million
19 Feb 1983
Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m free style swimming record
19 Feb 1984
Doonesbury closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 104 performances
19 Feb 1984
XIV Winter Olympic Games close in Sarajevo Yugoslavia
19 Feb 1984
1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
19 Feb 1984
26th Daytona 500 Cale Yarborough wins for 2nd consecutive year and 4th time in career last-lap pass to beat Darrell Waltrip
19 Feb 1984
Swedish cross country skier Thomas Wassberg wins 50k event at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics his second gold of the Games (4 x 10k relay) and 3rd of his career (15k Lake Placid 1980)
19 Feb 1984
Soviet Union wins its 6th Olympic ice hockey gold medal with a 2-0 win over silver medallists Czechoslovakia at the Sarajevo Winter Games
19 Feb 1985
150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashes approaching Bilbao Spain
19 Feb 1985
Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
19 Feb 1985
William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spends 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville Kentucky
19 Feb 1985
British soap opera Eastenders premieres on the BBC
19 Feb 1986
US Senate ratifies UNs anti-genocide convention 37 years later
19 Feb 1986
USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
19 Feb 1987
Stardust opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances
19 Feb 1987
Less than a month after re-signing As pitcher Vida Blue retires
19 Feb 1987
Minnesota sheriffs office arrest FBIs most wanted Thomas G. Harrelson
19 Feb 1988
Helga Arendt Silke-Beate Knoll Mechthild Kluth Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (132.55)
19 Feb 1989
Legs Diamond closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 performances
19 Feb 1989
31st Daytona 500 Darrell Waltrip wins when Hendrick Racing team decides to use fuel strategy being the only car not to pit in the closing laps
19 Feb 1990
Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
19 Feb 1992
Ken Ludwigs musical Crazy For You opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1622 performances
19 Feb 1992
Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie
19 Feb 1992
In a blockbuster NHL trade Pittsburgh Penguins send Mark Recchi Brian Benning & LAs 1st round pick (Jason Bowen) to the Philadelphia Flyers for Kjell Samuelsson Rick Tocchet & Ken Wregget
19 Feb 1993
Kenya Moore 22 (Michigan) crowned 42nd Miss USA
19 Feb 1993
Happy Nation debut studio album by Ace of Base is released
19 Feb 1994
Marta Figueras-Dotti wins Cup o Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
19 Feb 1995
1st broadcast of Woman of Independent Means on NBC-TV
19 Feb 1995
Irina Privalova runs indoor womans European record 200m (22.10 sec)
19 Feb 1995
Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec) and European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec)
19 Feb 1995
37th Daytona 500 Sterling Marlin wins for 2nd straight year 3rd driver to achieve back-to-back titles (Richard Petty Cale Yarborough)
19 Feb 1996
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York PA on WQXA 105.7 FM
19 Feb 1997
FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls
19 Feb 1998
US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan
19 Feb 2001
An Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial
19 Feb 2002
NASAs Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
19 Feb 2004
Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal is awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of a lifetime of service to humanity.
19 Feb 2006
48th Daytona 500 Jimmie Johnson driving from Hendrick Motorsports wins 203 lap race goes on to win his first championship
19 Feb 2006
59th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS) Brokeback Mountain Best Film Ang Lee Best Director
19 Feb 2007
Three Salvadoran deputies to the Central American Parliament and their driver are murdered in Guatemala
19 Feb 2007
Blogging website Tumblr is founded by David Karp in New York
19 Feb 2008
Toshiba announces its formal recall of its HD DVD video format ending the format war between it and Sonys Blu-Ray Disc
19 Feb 2008
Serzh Sargsyan wins the Armenian Presidential Election
19 Feb 2012
44 people killed in prison brawl in Apocada Mexico between two rival drug cartels
19 Feb 2014
Death toll in Ukraine reaches 26 after Government crackdown on protesters
19 Feb 2014
Norwegian biathletes Ole Einar Bjrndalen (sprint gold) andEmil Hegle Svendsen (mass start gold) each win their 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the mixed relay
19 Feb 2014
Canadian team Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyes win their second consecutive Olympic 2-woman bobsleigh gold medal at the Sochi Winter Games
19 Feb 2014
Czech speed skater Martina Sblkov retains her Olympic 5000m title (Vancouver 2010) in Sochi also Vancouver 3000m gold
19 Feb 2014
After winning the combined gold in Turin (2006) American alpine skier Ted Ligety has to wait 8 years for his next Olympic success gold in the giant slalom in Sochi
19 Feb 2017
NBA All Star Game Smoothie King Centre New Orleans LA West beats East 192-182 MVP Anthony Davis New Orleans Pelicans F
19 Feb 2018
Canadian team of Justin Kripps & Alexander Kopacz dead-heat in 316.86 with Germans Francesco Friedrich & Thorsten Margis for the 2-man bobsleigh gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
19 Feb 2018
Syrian government forces bombard Gouta in deadliest day in 3 years killing over 100 civilians
19 Feb 2018
At least 17 killed when a garbage mound collapses in Maputo Mozambique
19 Feb 2018
Nigeria says 110 girls missing presumed kidnapped by Boko Haram after attack on school in Dapchi Yobe state
19 Feb 2013
12 people are killed and 11 are injured after a Yemeni Air Force plane crashes in Sanaa
19 Feb 1941
Nazi police raid Amsterdam and round up 429 young Jews for deportation
19 Feb 1992
Professional Spring Football League announces end of operations 10 days before the scheduled season opener 10 teams had players in camp and practicing and rosters cut down to 60 players
19 Feb 1624
English Happy Parliament the final Parliament of King James I opens at Westminster
19 Feb 1942
NY Yankees announce 5000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games
19 Feb 1516
Consecration of the Lady Chapel part of Westminster Abbey by Henry VII called one of the most perfect buildings ever erected in England [1]
19 Feb 1582
Francis of Valois Duke of Anjou gains the title Duke of Brabant the hereditary sovereign of the Dutch United Provinces
19 Feb 1884
Enigma Outbreak of over 60 tornadoes in Mississippi Alabama North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Kentucky and Indiana kill hundreds if not over a thousand (hence the enigma) people
19 Feb 1929
Medical diathermy machine 1st used in Schenectady NY
19 Feb 1943
German tanks under Major General Karl Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunisia
19 Feb 1972
Harry Nilssons single Without You begins a 4 week run at the top of the charts. [The song was originally written and performed by the English band Badfinger in 1970 and would reach the top ten again with Mariah Careys 1994 cover.]
19 Feb 1906
W.K. Kellogg (after falling out with brother over development credit and wanting to add sugar to cereal) joins Charles D. Bolin in founding the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company now the multinational food manufacturer Kelloggs
19 Feb 1949
Inside USA closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances
19 Feb 1960
Three time Canadian world champions Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul win the pairs figure skating Olympic gold medal at Squaw Valley California
19 Feb 1968
Childrens educational TV program Mister Rogers Neighborhood debuts on NET (now PBS)
19 Feb 1977
19th Grammy Awards This Masqueradeand Starland Vocal Band win
19 Feb 1984
Doonesbury closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 104 performances
19 Feb 1987
Stardust opens at Biltmore Theater NYC runs for 102 performances
19 Feb 1992
American porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie
19 Feb 1995
British composer Michael Tippetts last major work Rose Lake premieres at Barbican Hall in London with the London Symphony led by Colin Davis
19 Feb 1897
Inaugural meeting of the Womens Institute at Stoney Creek Ontario set at the suggestion of Adelaide Hoodless the organization will rapidly spread around the world [1]
19 Feb 1923
Philip Barrys play You & I premieres in NYC
19 Feb 1942
An estimated 150 Japanese warplanes attack the Australian city of Darwin
19 Feb 1946
New York Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the outlaw Mexican Baseball League for a fee of 10000
19 Feb 1952
American defending champion Dick Button becomes 1st figure-skater to land a triple jump in competition performs triple loop in Olympic free skate in Oslo wins gold medal ahead of Austrias Helmut Seibt
19 Feb 1952
First Indochina War French offensive at Hanoi
19 Feb 1987
Musical revue Stardust - The Mitchell Parish Musical featuring songs of the Lithuanian-American lyricist opens at Biltmore Theater NYC runs for 101 performances
19 Feb 1989
Peter Allens musical Legs Diamond closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 performances
19 Feb 1993
Happy Nation debut studio album by Swedish pop group Ace of Base is released
19 Feb 1995
Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize for One Train (1994) and On The Great Atlantic Rainway Selected Poems 1950-1988 (1994)
19 Feb 2014
Norwegian biathletes Ole Einar Bjrndalen (sprint gold) and Emil Hegle Svendsen (mass start gold) each win their 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the mixed relay
19 Feb 1674
Dutch Republic and England sign Treaty of Westminster ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War North American colony of New Netherland returned to British [OS date 02-09 NS]
19 Feb 1803
US Congress accepts Ohios bid for statehood but neglects to ratify their constitution oversight no corrected until1953 [1]
19 Feb 1915
WWI Germany sinks American Merchant ship Evelyn with mine in the North Sea
19 Feb 1959
USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph) at Holloman AFB New Mexico
19 Feb 1961
Dutchman Henk van der Grift becomes world champ all-round skater
19 Feb 1968
1st US statewide teachers strike begins in Florida [note a two-day walk out in Utah in 1963 is considered first by some]
19 Feb 1977
19th Grammy Awards This Masquerade by George Benson and Starland Vocal Band win
19 Feb 1982
Hanneke Jagersma installed as the 1st Communist mayor in the Netherlands
19 Feb 1996
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York Pennsylvania on WQXA 105.7 FM
19 Feb 2004
Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal of Austria is awarded an honorary British knighthood in recognition of a lifetime of service to humanity.
19 Feb 2019
Four-time MLB All-Star at 3B Manny Machado agrees to the biggest free-agent contract in American sports history a 10 year deal worth 300 million with the San Diego Padres
19 Feb 2019
New York city bans hair discrimination to limit racial stereotyping
19 Feb 2019
Vatican confirms secret church guidelines for children of priests
19 Feb 2020
German gunman opens fire in a bar in Hanau Germany killing nine in a racially motivated attack
19 Feb 2021
In a softening of 4-year WADA ban on Russia from all international sport Russia to compete under acronym ROC after name of the Russian Olympic Committee
19 Feb 2022
Alexander Bolshunov representing Russian Olympic Committee wins mens 50k freestyle cross country gold in Beijing to become only 2nd man to achieve 30k50k double at a Winter Olympics
19 Feb 2023
65th Daytona 500 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins for JTG Daugherty Racing in double overtime and under caution over a record 212 laps former NBA player Brad Daugherty first Black car owner to win the race
19 Feb 2023
Brazilian state of Sao Paulo hit by flooding and landslides after heavy rain with at least 44 killed and 800 homeless [1]
19 Feb 1512
French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia in Italy
19 Feb 1539
Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (Trnava Czechia) are expelled
19 Feb 1574
Spanish troops plunder Krommenie Wormerveer and Jisp in the Netherlands
19 Feb 1582
Francis Duke of Anjou gains the title Duke of Brabant the hereditary sovereign of the Dutch United Provinces
19 Feb 1825
Franz Grillparzers stage drama Konig Ottokars Gluck premieres in Vienna at the Burgtheater
19 Feb 1913
First prize is inserted into a Cracker Jack box
19 Feb 1922
Ed Wynn becomes the first talent to sign as a radio entertainer
19 Feb 1945
980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in two days on Ramree Island Burma
19 Feb 1946
NY Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is the first major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the outlaw Mexican Baseball League for a fee of 10000
19 Feb 1956
Doo-wop vocal group The Five Satins record leader and songwriter Fred Parriss tune In the Still of the Nite in the basement of St. Bernadettes Church in New Haven Connecticut
19 Feb 1959
Britain Turkey and Greece sign an agreement granting Cyprus independence
19 Feb 1968
First statewide teachers strike in the US begins in Florida [note a two-day walkout in Utah in 1963 is considered first by some]
19 Feb 1970
Pop singer-songwriter duo Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart guest star in Serena Stops the Show episode of American TV sitcom Bewitched
19 Feb 1972
NZ cricketer Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223 vs West Indies at Kingston
19 Feb 1977
Space Shuttle Enterprise makes its first test flight atop a 747 jetliner
19 Feb 1985
Canned and bottled Cherry Coke is introduced by Coca-Cola
19 Feb 1985
William Schroeder is the first artificial heart patient to leave the hospital spending 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville Kentucky
19 Feb 1989
Edgar Bowers wins the Bollingen Prize in Poetry
19 Feb 1997
FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls and 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls
19 Feb 1998
After being eliminated by the Czech Republic the US ice hockey team trashes three dorm rooms at the Olympic Village in Nagano Japan
19 Feb 2008
Toshiba announces its formal recall of its HD DVD video format ending the format war with Sonys Blu-ray Disc
19 Feb 2023
Trkiye ends rescue efforts in all but Kahramanmaras and Hatay two weeks after the devastating earthquakes that stuck in the south-east and in northern Syria killing between 5948862013 people and leaving an estimated 1.5 million people homeless [1]
19 Feb 2024
66th Daytona 500 William Byron takes the lead on a restart with 4 laps to go and then wins after Ross Chastain and Austin Cindric crash to bring out a race-ending caution Hendrick Motorsports record-tying 9th win
19 Feb 2024
Brightest known object in the universe identified as a quasar 500 trillion x brighter than the sun powered by a supermassive black hole that devours a sun-sized mass every day [1]
19 Feb 2024
Investigation into 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise charges his wife the former PM and ex-chief of police [1]
19 Feb 2025
Fastest Atlantic crossing record-holding American ocean liner SS United States departs Philadelphia Pennsylvania under tow on her final voyage before being scuttled to become the worlds largest artificial reef [1]