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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 ...