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This day in history: 19 February

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331 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 19 February.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2021: Mya Thwe Thwe Khine, a 19-year-old protester, becomes the first known casualty of anti-coup protests that formed in response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.

Holidays and observances

Army Day (Mexico)

Brâncuși Day (Romania)

Christian feast day: Barbatus of Benevento

Christian feast day: Blessed Elisabetta Picenardi

Christian feast day: Boniface of Brussels

Christian feast day: Conrad of Piacenza

Christian feast day: February 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Lucy Yi Zhenmei (one of Martyrs of Guizhou)

Commemoration of Vasil Levski (Bulgaria)

Shivaji Jayanti (Maharashtra, India)

Events

2021Mya Thwe Thwe Khine, a 19-year-old protester, becomes the first known casualty of anti-coup protests that formed in response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.

2020Nine people are killed in two domestic terrorist shootings in Hanau, Hesse, Germany.

2012Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico.

2011The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.

2006A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.

2003An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275.

2002NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.

1989Flying Tiger Line Flight 066 crashes into a hill near Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Malaysia, killing four.

1988A Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner operating as AVAir Flight 3378 crashes in Cary, North Carolina, killing 12.

1986Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in eastern Sri Lanka.

1985A Boeing 727 operating as Iberia Flight 610 crashes Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148; it is the deadliest accident to occur in Iberia's history and the deadliest to occur in Basque County.

1985China Airlines Flight 006 experiences an aircraft upset over the Pacific Ocean, injuring 24.

1985William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital.

1978Egyptian 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

1976Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.

1965Colonel 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, all Catholics, attempt a coup against the military junta of the Bud

1963The 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.

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

1959The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.

1954Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.

1949Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.

1948The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.

1945World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.

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

1942World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.

1942World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.

1937Yekatit 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.

1915World 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.

1913Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.

1884More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.

1878Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.

1847The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.

1846In 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.

1836King William IV signs Letters Patent establishing the province of South Australia.

1819British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands.

1807Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama, and confined to Fort Stoddert.

1726The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.

1714Great Northern War: The battle of Napue between Sweden and Russia is fought in Isokyrö, Ostrobothnia.

1674England 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.

1649The Second Battle of Guararapes takes place, effectively ending Dutch colonization efforts in Brazil.

Born on this day

2004Millie Bobby Brown, English actress, model and producer

2001David Mazouz, American actor

2001Lee Kang-in, South Korean footballer

1998Chappell Roan, American singer and songwriter

1998Jungwoo, South Korean singer

1998Katharina Gerlach, German tennis player

1996D. J. Wilson, American basketball player

1996Mabel, British-Swedish singer

1995Nikola Jokić, Serbian basketball player

1994Tiina Trutsi, Estonian footballer

1993Mauro Icardi, Argentine footballer

1993Victoria Justice, American actress and singer

1992Camille Kostek, American model

1992Cody Parkey, American football player

1991Adreian Payne, American basketball player (died 2022)

1991Christoph Kramer, German footballer

1991Trevor Bayne, American race car driver

1989Sone Aluko, English-Nigerian footballer

1988Seth Morrison, American guitarist

1988Shawn Matthias, Canadian ice hockey player

1987Anna Cappellini, Italian ice dancer

1987Josh Reddick, American baseball player

1986Kyle Chipchura, Canadian ice hockey player

1986Linus Klasen, Swedish ice hockey player

1986Maria Mena, Norwegian singer-songwriter

1986Marta, Brazilian footballer

1985Arielle Kebbel, American actress and model

1985Haylie Duff, American actress and singer

1985Kosta Perović, Serbian basketball player

1984Chris Richardson, American singer-songwriter

1983Jawad Williams, American basketball player

1983Kotoōshū Katsunori, Bulgarian sumo wrestler

1983Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress

1983Reynhard Sinaga, Indonesian sex offender

1983Ryan Whitney, American ice hockey player

1981Beth Ditto, American singer

1981Shawn Spears, Canadian wrestler

1980Dwight Freeney, American football player

1980Ma Lin, Chinese table tennis player

1980Mike Miller, American basketball player

Died on this day

2020José Mojica Marins, Brazilian filmmaker, actor, composer, screenwriter, and television horror host (born 1936)

2020Pop Smoke, American rapper (born 1999)

2019Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (born 1933)

2017Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist (born 1943)

2016Chiaki Morosawa, Japanese anime screenwriter (born 1959)

2016Harper Lee, American author (born 1926)

2016Samuel Willenberg, Polish-Israeli sculptor and painter (born 1923)

2016Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and philosopher (born 1932)

2015Harold Johnson, American boxer (born 1928)

2015Harris Wittels, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1984)

2015Nirad Mohapatra, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1947)

2014Dale Gardner, American captain and astronaut (born 1948)

2014Kresten Bjerre, Danish footballer and manager (born 1946)

2014Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (born 1935)

2013Armen Alchian, American economist and academic (born 1914)

2013Donald Richie, American-Japanese author and critic (born 1924)

2013Eugene Whelan, Canadian farmer and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Agriculture (born 1924)

2013Park Chul-soo, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1948)

2013Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1937)

2012Jaroslav Velinský, Czech author and songwriter (born 1932)

2012Ruth Barcan Marcus, American philosopher and logician (born 1921)

2012Vitaly Vorotnikov, Russian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Russia (born 1926)

2011Ollie Matson, American sprinter and football player (born 1930)

2009Kelly Groucutt, English singer and bass player (born 1945)

2008Lydia Shum, Chinese-Hong Kong actress and singer (born 1945)

2008Yegor Letov, Russian singer-songwriter (born 1964)

2007Celia Franca, English-Canadian dancer and director, founded the National Ballet of Canada (born 1921)

2007Janet Blair, American actress and singer (born 1921)

2003Johnny Paycheck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1938)

2002Sylvia Rivera, American transgender LGBT activist (born 1951)

Quote of the day

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

Will Durant, on Aristotle

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