About February 19
February 19, 2024 is the 50th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 316 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 345 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 19
- 197 –Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
- 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.
- 1819 –British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
- 1861 –Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
- 1878 –Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
- 1884 –More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
- 1901 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 1921 –Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup
- 1942 –World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.
- 1949 –Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
- 1960 –China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1985 –Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
- 1986 –The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for 10 of those years.
- 1999 –President Bill Clinton issues a posthumous pardon for U.S. Army Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper.
- 2001 –The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
- 2002 –NASA’s Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
- 2006 –A methane explosion in coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
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