Notable Historical Events on February 19th
February 19th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
197 |
Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon |
356 |
Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples |
607 |
Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
842 |
Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches |
1512 |
French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia |
1537 |
Weavers of Leiden, Netherlands, strike |
1539 |
Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled |
1574 |
Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer & Jisp, Netherlands |
1582 |
Francis of Valois becomes duke of Brabant |
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. |
1600 |
The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America. |
1634 |
Battle of Smolensk: King Wladyslaw IV of Poland beats Russians [NS=Mar 1] |
1674 |
Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English) |
1700 |
Last day of Julian calendar in Denmark |
1736 |
George Frideric Handel's "Alexander's Feast," premieres |
1771 |
Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis & Hydra & galaxy in Virgo) |
1797 |
One third of papal domain ceded to France |
1803 |
Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953 |
1807 |
British squadron under Admiral Duckworth attempts to force passage of Dardanelles |
1807 |
VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later acquitted |
1819 |
British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III. |
1825 |
Franz Grillparzer's "Konig Ottokars Gluck," premieres in Vienna |
1831 |
1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn |
1846 |
Texas state government formally installed in Austin |
1852 |
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. |
1856 |
Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio |
1861 |
Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom [NS=Mar 3] |
1864 |
Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Wash DC (12 members) |
1869 |
US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized |
1878 |
Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph) |
1881 |
Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages |
1884 |
Tornadoes in Miss, Ala, NC, SC, Tenn, Ky & In kill 800 people |
1900 |
British troops occupy Hlangwane, Natal |
1906 |
WK Kellogg & Ch Bolin found Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co (later Kelloggs) |
1910 |
English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra" |
1910 |
Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area |
1913 |
1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box |
1913 |
Mexican General V Huerta takes power with US support |
1914 |
Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini," premieres in Turin |
1915 |
British fleet fire on Dardanelles coast |
1919 |
Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois (Paris) |
1920 |
Netherlands joins League of Nations |
1922 |
Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer |
1923 |
Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres |
1923 |
Philip Barry's "You & I," premieres in NYC |
1927 |
General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai |
1928 |
2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland |
1928 |
Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal |
1929 |
Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY |
1932 |
William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August" |
1933 |
Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers |
1934 |
US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months |
1935 |
Clifford Odets' "Awake & Sing," premieres in NYC |
1936 |
Manuel Azaña becomes Spanish premier |
1938 |
Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark |
1941 |
Nazi police attacked & driven away from Koco, Amsterdam (by young Jews) |
1941 |
Nazi raid Amsterdam & round up 429 young Jews for deportation |
1942 |
About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin |
1942 |
Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champ |
1942 |
Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber |
1942 |
FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans |
1942 |
Japanese troops land on Timor |
1942 |
Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah" |
1942 |
NY Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games |
1943 |
German tanks under brig gen Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia |
1944 |
823 British bombers attack Berlin |
1944 |
U-264 sinks off Ireland |
1945 |
980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma |
1945 |
Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated |
1945 |
US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines |
1946 |
Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League |
1947 |
CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3" |
1949 |
"Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances |
1949 |
1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound |
1949 |
Mass arrests of communists in India |
1952 |
French offensive at Hanoi |
1953 |
Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board |
1953 |
William Inge's "Picnic," premieres in NYC |
1955 |
South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect |
1956 |
Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open |
1958 |
Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records |
1959 |
Britain, Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence |
1959 |
Gabon adopts its constitution |
1959 |
USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), NM |
1960 |
Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts |
1960 |
Protest strike in Poznan, Poland |
1961 |
Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism" |
1961 |
Henk van der Grift (Neth) becomes world champ all-round skater |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize |
1963 |
USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba |
1964 |
UK flies ½ ton of The Beatles wigs to the US |
1965 |
NFL adds 6th official |
1967 |
Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater |
1968 |
1st US Teachers strike (Florida) |
1969 |
1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet |
1970 |
AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking |
1970 |
USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite |
1971 |
Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK |
1971 |
Walt Wesley becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game |
1972 |
Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223* v WI at Kingston |
1972 |
The Asama-Sanso hostage standoff begins in Japan. |
1974 |
1st American Music Award: Helen Reddy & Jim Croce win |
1976 |
Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara |
1977 |
19th Grammy Awards: This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band |
1977 |
A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000 |
1977 |
Doug Walters scores 250 v NZ, 217 stand for 7th wicket w/Gilmour |
1977 |
Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released |
1977 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1977 |
Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner |
1978 |
"On the 20th Century" opens at St James Theater NYC for 460 perfs |
1978 |
Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8) |
1978 |
Coleman, Comden & Green's musical premieres in NYC |
1980 |
Botham a century & 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay |
1980 |
Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1000m in 1:15.18 |
1981 |
George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine" |
1982 |
Hanneke Jagersma installed as Neth's 1st Communist mayor |
1982 |
Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853 |
1982 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1983 |
Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million |
1983 |
Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m free style swimming record |
1984 |
"Doonesbury" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 104 performances |
1984 |
14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia |
1984 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984 |
1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom) |
1985 |
150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain |
1985 |
ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy |
1985 |
Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola |
1985 |
Mickey Mouse welcomed in China |
1985 |
William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Ky |
1986 |
King Hussein of Jordan severs ties with PLO |
1986 |
US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later |
1986 |
USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit |
1987 |
"Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances |
1987 |
Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner |
1987 |
Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires |
1987 |
Minnisota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson |
1987 |
US President Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland |
1988 |
Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55) |
1989 |
"Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 perfs |
1989 |
Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize |
1990 |
Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal |
1990 |
Soyuz TM-9 lands |
1992 |
"Crazy For You" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1622 performances |
1992 |
Ken Ludwig's musical "Crazy for You," premieres in NYC |
1992 |
Peter Collins discovers nova Cygni 1992 |
1992 |
Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie |
1993 |
Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA |
1994 |
Marta Figueras-Dotti wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
1995 |
1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV |
1995 |
Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec) |
1995 |
Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize |
1995 |
Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec) and European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec) |
1995 |
Michael Tippett's "Rose Lake," premieres |
1996 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York PA on WQXA 105.7 FM |
1997 |
FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls |
1998 |
Soyuz TM-26 lands |
1998 |
US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan |
2001 |
An 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-hunter Simon Wiesenthal is awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity." |
2007 |
Three Salvadoran deputies to the Central American Parliament and their driver are murdered in Guatemala. |
2008 |
Toshiba announces its formal recall of its HD DVD video formatting, ending the format war between it and Sony's Blu-Ray Disc |
2012 |
44 people killed in prison brawl in Apocada, Mexico, between two rival drug cartels |
2013 |
12 people are killed and 11 are injured after a Yemeni Air Force plane crashes in Sana'a |
2014 |
2014 BRIT Awards: David Bowie, Ellie Goulding, & Arctic Monkeys win |
2016 |
France Rejects Russia's Proposed UN Resolution on Syria |
2017 |
Iraq Starts Offensive to Retake Western Mosul From ISIS |
2017 |
Malaysia searching for four North Korean suspects in Kim Jong Nam murder |
2017 |
US pushes Beijing to keep up pressure on North Korea |
2017 |
Iraqi planes drop leaflets on west Mosul to say offensive is imminent |
2017 |
New York bomb plot mastermind Omar Abdel Rahman dies in prison |
2018 |
Austin Dillon wins Daytona 500 in the No. 3 two decades after Dale Earnhardt |
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