19 Februar

The 19t o Februar is the 50t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 315 days ti come (316 in lowp years).

 Events 
1803 – Thomas Jefferson recognises Ohio as the 17t State o the Unitit States.
1845 – Texas is annexed bi the Unitit States.
1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1884 – Ower 60 tornadoes strike the Soothren Unitit States.
1928 – The 1928 Winter Olympic Gemmes in Sankt Moritz, Swisserland, end.
1945 – Warld War II: 30,000 Unitit States marines land on Iwo Jima, Japan.
1976 – Iceland breaks off diplomatic relations wi the Unitit Kinrick, acause o the Cod Wars.
1985 – An Iberia Airlines Boeing 747 crashes intae Moont Oiz in Spain, killin 148 fowk.
1985 – Telly programme EastEnders is shawn frae the first time.
2001 – The Unitit Kinrick's Foot-an-Mooth Disease ootbrak stairts.
2003 – An Ilyushin militar aircraft crashes in Kerman, Iran, killin 275 fowk.
2006 – A methane splosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
2008 – Fidel Castro annoonces his demission as Preses o Cuba.
2010 – Amy Williams wins Great Breetain's anly medal o the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, winnin gowd in the skeleton.
2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: Iran records its first COVID-19 case.
2020 – 10 fowk are killt in shuitins at Shisha bars in Hanau, Germany.
2021 – The Unitit States rejyns the Paris climate accord, 107 days efter leavin.

 Births 
1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician an astronomer (d. 1543)
1817 – William III o the Netherlands (d. 1890)
1865 – Sven Hedin, Swadish splorer (d. 1952)
1924 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
1940 – Saparmurat Niyazov, Preses o Turkmenistan (d. 2006)
1953 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Preses o Argentinae
1957 – Falco, Austrick sangster (d. 1998)
1960 – Prince Andrew, Duke o York
1967 – Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
1993 – Victoria Justice, American actress

 Daiths 
 1952 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer (b. 1859)
 1972 – John Grierson, Scots director an producer (b. 1898)
 1997 – Deng Xiaoping, leader o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (b. 1904)
 2016 – Harper Lee, American writer (b. 1926)
 2016 – Vi Subversa, Inglis muisicker (b. 1935)
 2016 – Samuel Willenberg, Pols-Israeli ingineer, penter an sculptor (b. 1923)
 2016 – Umberto Eco, Italian writer an philosopher (b. 1932)
 2017 – Danuta Szaflarska, Pols actress (b. 1915)
 2019 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (b. 1933)
 2021 – Arturo Di Modica, Italian-American sculptor an artist (b. 1941)

 Halidays 
 Armed Forces Day (Mexico)
 Banner Day (Turkmenistan)

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Category:Days o the year