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Events on the 19th of February in history

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19 Feb 0197 Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
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19 Feb 0197 Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon
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19 Feb 0356 Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.
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19 Feb 0356 Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples
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19 Feb 0607 Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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19 Feb 0842 Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches
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19 Feb 1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia
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19 Feb 1537 Weavers of Leiden Netherlands strike
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19 Feb 1539 Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czechoslovakia), expelled
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19 Feb 1574 Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer & Jisp Netherlands
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19 Feb 1582 Francis of Valois becomes duke of Brabant
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19 Feb 1594 Having already inherited the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagiellon of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
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19 Feb 1600 The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
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19 Feb 1619 Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague
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19 Feb 1634 Battle at Smolensk Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
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19 Feb 1649 The Second Battle of Guararapes takes place, effectively ending Dutch colonization efforts in Brazil.
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19 Feb 1674 England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
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19 Feb 1674 Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English)
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19 Feb 1700 Last day of the Julian calendar in Denmark
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19 Feb 1736 George Frideric H
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19 Feb 1771 Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis & Hydra & galaxy in Virgo)
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19 Feb 1797 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France
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19 Feb 1803 Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953
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19 Feb 1807 Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert.
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19 Feb 1807 British squadron under Admiral Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelles
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19 Feb 1807 Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
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19 Feb 1819 British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
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19 Feb 1825 Franz Grillparzer's "K
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19 Feb 1831 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Pennsylvania
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19 Feb 1846 In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following the annexation of Texas by the United States.
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19 Feb 1846 Texas state government formally installed in Austin
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19 Feb 1847 The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
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19 Feb 1856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio
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19 Feb 1859 Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the first time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
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19 Feb 1859 Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used
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19 Feb 1861 Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
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19 Feb 1861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
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19 Feb 1864 Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington DC (12 members)
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19 Feb 1869 US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized
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19 Feb 1878 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
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19 Feb 1878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the gramophone (phonograph)
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19 Feb 1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
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19 Feb 1884 Tornadoes in Miss, Ala, NC, SC, Tenn, Ky and In kill 800 people
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19 Feb 1884 More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
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19 Feb 1884 Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky & Indiana kill 800 people
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19 Feb 1900 British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal
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19 Feb 1906 WK Kellogg and Ch Bolin found Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company
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19 Feb 1906 W K Kellogg & Charles D Bolin incorporate Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, Battle Creek MI
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19 Feb 1910 English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra"
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19 Feb 1913 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box
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19 Feb 1913 Mexican General V Huerta takes power with US support
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19 Feb 1914 Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini" premieres in Turin
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19 Feb 1915 World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
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19 Feb 1915 British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast
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19 Feb 1919 Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois (Paris)
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19 Feb 1920 Netherlands joins League of Nations
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19 Feb 1922 Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer
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19 Feb 1923 Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres
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19 Feb 1923 Philip Barry's "You & I" premieres in New York NY
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19 Feb 1927 General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai
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19 Feb 1928 Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal
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19 Feb 1928 2nd Winter Olympics games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
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19 Feb 1929 Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, New York
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19 Feb 1932 William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"
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19 Feb 1933 Prussian minister G
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19 Feb 1934 Bob & Dolores Hope marry
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19 Feb 1934 US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months
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19 Feb 1935 Clifford Odets' "Awake & Sing" premieres in New York NY
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19 Feb 1936 Manuel Aza
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19 Feb 1937 Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
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19 Feb 1938 Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
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19 Feb 1941 Nazi police attacks and driven away from Koco Amsterdam (by young Jews)
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19 Feb 1941 Nazis raid Koco Amsterdam & round up 429 young Jews for deportation
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19 Feb 1942 World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
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19 Feb 1942 World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.
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19 Feb 1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
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19 Feb 1942 New York Yankees announce 5,000 uniformed soldiers will be admitted free at each of their upcoming home games
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19 Feb 1942 About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
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19 Feb 1942 Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champion
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19 Feb 1942 Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber
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19 Feb 1942 Japanese troop land on Timor
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19 Feb 1942 Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah"
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19 Feb 1943 World War II: Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
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19 Feb 1943 German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia
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19 Feb 1944 823 British bombers attack Berlin
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19 Feb 1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland
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19 Feb 1945 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima
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19 Feb 1945 World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
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19 Feb 1945 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days
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19 Feb 1945 Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated
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19 Feb 1945 US 5th Fleet (30,000 US Marines) launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese
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19 Feb 1946 Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League
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19 Feb 1947 CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3"
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19 Feb 1948 The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
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19 Feb 1949 "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances
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19 Feb 1949 Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
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19 Feb 1949 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound
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19 Feb 1949 Mass arrests of communists in India
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19 Feb 1952 French offensive at Hanoi
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19 Feb 1953 Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
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19 Feb 1953 Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board
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19 Feb 1953 Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet
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19 Feb 1953 William Inge's "Picnic" premieres in New York NY
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19 Feb 1954 WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, New York (NBC) 1st broadcast
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19 Feb 1955 South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect
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19 Feb 1956 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
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19 Feb 1958 Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records
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19 Feb 1959 The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
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19 Feb 1959 Gabon adopts its constitution
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19 Feb 1959 USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), New Mexico
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19 Feb 1959 Britain, Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence
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19 Feb 1960 China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
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19 Feb 1960 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts
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19 Feb 1960 Protest strike in Poznan Poland
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19 Feb 1961 Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism"
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19 Feb 1961 Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism"
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19 Feb 1961 Henk van der Grift (Netherlands) becomes world champion all-around skater
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19 Feb 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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19 Feb 1963 The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
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19 Feb 1963 USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba
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19 Feb 1963 Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize
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19 Feb 1964 UK flies
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19 Feb 1965 Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm attempted a coup against the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
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19 Feb 1965 NFL adds 6th official
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19 Feb 1967 Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater
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19 Feb 1968 1st US Teachers strike (Florida)
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19 Feb 1969 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet
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19 Feb 1970 AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for book-making
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19 Feb 1970 USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite
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19 Feb 1971 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in the UK
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19 Feb 1971 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK
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19 Feb 1971 Walt Wesley becomes the 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score 50 points in a game
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19 Feb 1972 The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan.
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19 Feb 1972 Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223 vs West Indies at Kingston
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19 Feb 1974 1st American Music Award
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19 Feb 1976 Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417
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19 Feb 1976 Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara
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19 Feb 1977 Doug Walters scores 250 vs. New Zealand, 217 stand for 7th wicket w / Gilmour
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19 Feb 1977 Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st test flight atop a 747 jetliner
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19 Feb 1977 19th Grammy Awards This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band
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19 Feb 1977 A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000
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19 Feb 1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released
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19 Feb 1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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19 Feb 1978 "On the 20th Century" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 460 performances
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19 Feb 1978 Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
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19 Feb 1978 Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 meter indoor (2:34.8)
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19 Feb 1978 Coleman, Comden & Green's musical premieres in New York NY
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19 Feb 1980 Botham a century & 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay
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19 Feb 1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 1000 meter in 1 15.18
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19 Feb 1981 George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine"
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19 Feb 1982 Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853
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19 Feb 1982 Hanneke Jelgersma (Jagersma?) installed as Netherlands' 1st Communist mayor
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19 Feb 1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 meter freestyle swimming record
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19 Feb 1983 Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million
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19 Feb 1984 "Doonesbury" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 104 performances
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19 Feb 1984 1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at the Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
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19 Feb 1984 14th winter Olympics games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
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19 Feb 1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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19 Feb 1985 William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky
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19 Feb 1985 EastEnders, BBC's flagship soap opera, broadcasts for the first time.
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19 Feb 1985 Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
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19 Feb 1985 William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital.
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19 Feb 1985 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
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19 Feb 1985 ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy
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19 Feb 1985 Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
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19 Feb 1985 Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
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19 Feb 1986 Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in the eastern province of Sri Lanka.
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19 Feb 1986 US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later
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19 Feb 1986 USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
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19 Feb 1986 Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO
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19 Feb 1987 "Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances
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19 Feb 1987 Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson
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19 Feb 1987 Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner
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19 Feb 1987 Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires
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19 Feb 1987 Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland
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19 Feb 1988 Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200 meter (1:32.55)
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19 Feb 1989 "Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 performances
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19 Feb 1989 Broadway's biggest flop (lost $5.3 million) "Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 performances
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19 Feb 1989 Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize
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19 Feb 1990 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
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19 Feb 1992 "Crazy For You" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1622 performances
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19 Feb 1992 Peter Collins discovers nova Cygni 1992
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19 Feb 1992 Ken Ludwig's musical "Crazy for You" premieres at the Shubert Theater in New York NY for 1622 performances
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19 Feb 1992 Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie
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19 Feb 1993 Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA
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19 Feb 1994 Marta Figueras-Dotti wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
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19 Feb 1995 1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV
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19 Feb 1995 Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200 meter (22.10 seconds)
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19 Feb 1995 Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize
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19 Feb 1995 Linford Christie runs European record 60 meter indoor (6.47 seconds)
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19 Feb 1995 Linford Christie runs world record 200 meter indoor (20.25 seconds)
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19 Feb 1995 Michael Tippett's "Rose Lake" premieres
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19 Feb 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York PA on WQXA 105.7 FM
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19 Feb 1997 FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls
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19 Feb 1998 Soyuz TM-26 lands
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19 Feb 1998 US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympics village in Japan
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19 Feb 2001 The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
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19 Feb 2002 NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
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19 Feb 2003 An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275.
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19 Feb 2006 A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
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19 Feb 2011 The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artefacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
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19 Feb 2012 Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León.
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