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

• 1803 – Thomas Jefferson recognises Ohio as the 17t State o the Unitit States.
• 1845 – Texas is annexit 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.
• 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 announces his demission as Preses o Cuba.

Births

Nicolaus Copernicus

• 1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician an astronomer (d. 1543)
• 1743 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian componer (d. 1805)
• 1817 – William III o the Netherlands (d. 1890)
• 1833 – Elie Ducommun, Swiss jurnalist an activist (d. 1906)
• 1859 – Svante Arrhenius, Swadish pheesicist an chemist (d. 1927)
• 1865 – Sven Hedin, Swadish splorer (d. 1952)
• 1880 – Alvaro Obregon, Preses o Mexico (d. 1928)
• 1924 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
• 1940 – Smokey Robinson, American sangster
• 1940 – Saparmurat Niyazov, Preses o Turkmenistan (d. 2006)
• 1948 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politeecian (d. 2002)
• 1953 – Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Preses o Argentinae
• 1957 – Falco, Austrick sangster (d. 1998)
• 1957 – Ray Winstone, Inglis actor
• 1960 – Prince Andrew, Duke o York
• 1967 – Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
• 1977 – Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian fitbawer
• 1985 – Haylie Duff, American sangster an actress
• 1993 – Victoria Justice, American actress

Daiths

• 1951 – André Gide, French writer (b. 1869)
• 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)
• 2000 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrick airtist (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Renato Dulbecco, Italian-American biologist (b. 1914)
• 2016 – Harper Lee, American writer (b. 1926)
• 2016 – Vi Subversa, Inglis muisicker (b. 1935)
• 2016 – Umberto Eco, Italian writer an philosopher (b. 1932)
• 2017 – Danuta Szaflarska, Pols actress (b. 1915)

Halidays

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