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

1945: Unitit States marines on Iwo Jima

2001: Foot-an-Mooth Disease note

• 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

Nicolaus Copernicus

• 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)