About February 19
February 19, 2025 is the 50th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 315 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 363 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.
- 356 –Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.
- 1600 –The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
- 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.
- 1807 –In Alabama, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddert.
- 1819 –British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
- 1859 –Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the 1st time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
- 1876 –Founding of the National Amateur Press Association (NAPA) in Philadelphia.
- 1884 –More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
- 1921 –Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup
- 1937 –Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades. Italian authorities exact vicious reprisals on the population.
- 1942 –World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.
- 1945 –World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima – about 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
- 1960 –China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
- 1976 –Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford’s Proclamation 4417
- 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 –Artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital.
- 1986 –The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for 10 of those years.
- 2006 –A methane explosion in coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
- 2015 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Sheep in Chinese astrology.
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