SomeFacts | February 19

On this day - February 19

197 — Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in ...

356 — The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship ...

607 — Pope Boniface III is consecrated in Rome.

1594 — Having already been elected to the throne of the ...

1600 — The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most ...

1649 — The Second Battle of Guararapes takes place, effectively ...

1674 — England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ...

1714 — Great Northern War: The battle of Napue between Sweden and ...

1726 — The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.

1807 — Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is ...

1819 — British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland ...

1836 — King William IV signs Letters Patent establishing the province ...

1846 — In Austin, Texas, the newly formed Texas state government is ...

1847 — The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.

1878 — Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.

1884 — More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, ...

1913 — Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; ...

1915 — World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins ...

1937 — Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace ...

1942 — World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

1942 — World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the ...

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

1945 — World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States ...

1948 — The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia ...

1949 — Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by ...

1954 — Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union ...

1959 — The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is ...

1960 — China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.

1963 — The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique ...

1965 — Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, ...

1976 — Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese ...

1978 — Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an ...

1985 — China Airlines Flight 006 experiences an aircraft upset over ...

1985 — A Boeing 727 operating as Iberia Flight 610 crashes Mount Oiz ...

1985 — William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an ...

1986 — Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil ...

1988 — A Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner operating as AVAir Flight ...

1989 — Flying Tiger Line Flight 066 crashes into a hill near Sultan ...

2002 — NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface ...

2003 — An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, ...

2006 — A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, ...

2011 — The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the ...

2012 — Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, ...

2020 — Nine people are killed in two domestic terrorist shootings in ...

2021 — Mya Thwe Thwe Khine, a 19-year-old protester, becomes the ...