About February 19
February 19, 2023 is the 50th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 315 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 356 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 19
- 356 –Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.
- 1594 –Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, succeeding his father John III of Sweden.
- 1600 –The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
- 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.
- 1876 –Founding of the National Amateur Press Association (NAPA) in Philadelphia.
- 1878 –Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima – about 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
- 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.
- 1976 –Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford’s Proclamation 4417
- 1985 –Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
- 1986 –Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers the eastern province of Sri Lanka.
- 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.
- 2034 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
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