This Day in History
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
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Solzhenitsyn reunited with family
Alexander Solzhenitsyn awaits reunion with his family after exile from Russia. Publication of The Gulag Archipelago a detailed history of the Soviet prison sys...
Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066
Ten weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 authorizing the removal of any or all people ...
Copernicus born
On February 19 1473 Nicolaus Copernicus is born in Torun a city in north-central Poland on the Vistula River. The father of modern astronomy he was the firs...
Aaron Burr arrested for treason
Aaron Burr a former U.S. vice president is arrested in Alabama on charges of plotting to annex Spanish territory in Louisiana and Mexico to be used toward the...
Yarborough wins fourth Daytona 500
Driver Cale Yarborough wins his fourth Daytona 500 on this day in 1984. In the history of the 200-lap 500-mile race which was first run at Floridas Da...
Donner Party rescued
On this day in 1847 the first rescuers reach surviving members of the Donner Party a group of California-bound emigrants stranded by snow in the Sierra Nevada...
Marines invade Iwo Jima
On this day Operation Detachment the U.S. Marines invasion of Iwo Jima is launched. Iwo Jima was a barren Pacific island guarded by Japanese artiller...
South Vietnamese coup unsuccessful
Dissident officers move several battalions of troops into Saigon on this day with the intention of ousting Gen. Nguyen Khanh from leadership.General Khanh escap...
Chicago Seven sentenced
The Chicago Seven (formerly the Chicago Eightone defendant Bobby Seale was being tried separately) are acquitted of riot conspiracy charges but found...
Patrick Roy gets 300th win as NHL goalie
On this day in 1996 Colorado Avalanche goaltender Patrick Roy earns his 300th win in the National Hockey League. Roy retired from hockey in 2003 with 551 caree...
FDR orders Japanese Americans into internment camps
On this day in 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 initiating a controversial World War II policy with lasting consequences for Ja...
Rescuers reach Donner Party
The first rescuers from Sutters Fort reach the surviving remnants of the Donner emigrant party at their snowbound camp in the high Sierra Nevada Mountai...
Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph
The technology that made the modern music business possible came into existence in the New Jersey laboratory where Thomas Alva Edison created the first device t...
Amy Tan’s birthday
Novelist Amy Tan is born on this day in 1952 to Chinese immigrants who came to Oakland in 1949.Tan studied English at San Jose State and Berkeley. Although she ...
Bob Hope marries Dolores Reade
On this day in 1934 the legendary comic actor and entertainer Bob Hope marries Dolores Reade in Erie Pennsylvania. Their marriage would last until Hope...
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