February 19
Thursday 19, 2004:
Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal is awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity."
Tuesday 19, 2002:
NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
Monday 19, 2001:
A Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
Friday 19, 1999:
Dennis Franz receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Wednesday 19, 1986:
After waiting 37 years, the United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing genocide.
Tuesday 19, 1985:
EastEnders first airs on televisions across the United Kingdom, on the first night of a major ident change for BBC1.
Wednesday 19, 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.
Thursday 19, 1959:
The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence, which is then on formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
Thursday 19, 1953:
Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
Saturday 19, 1949:
Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
Monday 19, 1945:
about 30,000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima.
Friday 19, 1943:
World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
Thursday 19, 1942:
World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps.
Wednesday 19, 1941:
World War II: The Deutsches Afrikakorps, the corps-level headquarters controlling the German Panzer divisions in North Africa, was formed.
Friday 19, 1915:
World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli began.
Wednesday 19, 1913:
Prizes are included in Cracker Jack candy boxes for the first time.
Saturday 19, 1881:
Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
Tuesday 19, 1878:
The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.
Tuesday 19, 1861:
Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
Thursday 19, 1852:
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
Friday 19, 1847:
The Donner Party is rescued. It is noted that some of the survivors seem to be remarkably well-fed considering their ordeal.
Thursday 19, 1846:
In Austin, Texas the newly-formed Texas state government is officially installed.
Friday 19, 1819:
British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
Thursday 19, 1807:
In Alabama, Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason.
Monday 19, 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.
Saturday 19, 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.
Thursday 19, 607:
Boniface III becomes Pope.
Sunday 19, 197:
197 ? Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
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