February 19th, 2019

February 19th in History

1985:
EastEnders first airs on televisions across the United Kingdom, on the first night of a major ident change for BBC1.

1953:
Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.

1943:
World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.

1881:
Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.

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.